Merritt Island NWR Christmas Bird Count Results

The Merritt Island Christmas Count, held on December 15, 2014, had 27,408 total individual birds, and 155 total species. Thanks to all of the volunteers who pulled it together!

Species/Number  Seen

Species/Number Seen

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 115 Muscovy Duck 6 Wood Duck 1 Gadwall 2 Eurasian Wigeon 1 American Wigeon 180 Mottled Duck 5 Blue-winged Teal 280 Northern Shoveler 35 Northern Pintail 25 Canvasback 3 Redhead 2,100 Ring-necked Duck 16 Greater Scaup 6 Lesser Scaup 5,300 Black Scoter 11 Bufflehead 3 Hooded Merganser 60 Red-breasted Merganser 25 Ruddy Duck 4 Northern Bobwhite 1 Common Loon 25 Pied-billed Grebe 300 Horned Grebe 75 Northern Gannet 95 American White Pelican 200 Brown Pelican 320 Double-crested Cormorant 1,030 Anhinga 110 Great Blue Heron (Blue form) 180 Great Egret 285 Snowy Egret 290 Little Blue Heron 80 Tricolored Heron 200 Reddish Egret 13 Cattle Egret 70 Green Heron 30 Black-crowned Night-Heron 10 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1 White Ibis 1,250 Glossy Ibis 410 Roseate Spoonbill 130 Wood Stork 60 Black Vulture 365 Turkey Vulture 275 Osprey 167 Bald Eagle 28 Northern Harrier 15 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 6 Red-shouldered Hawk 48 Red-tailed Hawk 3 American Kestrel 35 Merlin 3 Peregrine Falcon 3 Black Rail 1 Clapper Rail 1 King Rail 2 Virginia Rail 1 Sora 8 Common Gallinule 92 American Coot 4,900 Sandhill Crane 1 Black-bellied Plover 65 Piping Plover 25 Killdeer 150 Black-necked Stilt 1 American Avocet 4 Spotted Sandpiper 2 Greater Yellowlegs 20 Willet 75 Lesser Yellowlegs 33 Ruddy Turnstone 85 Red Knot 12 Sanderling 31 Western Sandpiper 3 Least Sandpiper 32 Dunlin 355

Short-billed Dowitcher 1 Long-billed Dowitcher 2 Wilson's Snipe 7 Laughing Gull 630 Bonaparte's Gull 2 Ring-billed Gull 1,070 Herring Gull 32 Great Black-backed Gull 15 Caspian Tern 45 Forster's Tern 75 Royal Tern 185 Sandwich Tern 3 Black Skimmer 170 Rock Pigeon 130 Eurasian Collared-Dove 5 White-winged Dove 5 Mourning Dove 65 Common Ground-Dove 57 Eastern Screech-Owl 7 Great Horned Owl 3 Barred Owl 2 Belted Kingfisher 120 Red-bellied Woodpecker 61 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 11 Downy Woodpecker 12 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker 24 Pileated Woodpecker 15 Eastern Phoebe 62 Loggerhead Shrike 18 White-eyed Vireo 47 Blue-headed Vireo 14 Blue Jay 15 Florida Scrub-Jay 60 Fish Crow 180 Tree Swallow 75 Tufted Titmouse 6 Carolina Wren 120 House Wren 37 Sedge Wren 7 Marsh Wren 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 16 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 23 Hermit Thrush 4 American Robin 420 Gray Catbird 220 Northern Mockingbird 55 European Starling 160 American Pipit 2 Cedar Waxwing 50 Orange-crowned Warbler 7 Northern Parula 2 Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler 830 Black-throated Green Warbler 2 Yellow-throated Warbler 3 Pine Warbler 12 Prairie Warbler 3 Palm Warbler 370 Black-and-white Warbler 2 Ovenbird 1 Northern Waterthrush 2 Common Yellowthroat 275 Eastern Towhee 32 Chipping Sparrow 14 Savannah Sparrow 150 Swamp Sparrow 70 White-throated Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 72 Painted Bunting 7 Red-winged Blackbird 165 Eastern Meadowlark 7 Common Grackle 170 Boat-tailed Grackle 570 Brown-headed Cowbird 6 Pine Siskin 38 American Goldfinch 20 House Sparrow 35