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Bird Walk Report 4/9/11

host posted on April 11, 2011 08:29

Here are the sightings submitted:

Species seen: Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Number Seen: 14
Species seen: Mottled Duck Number Seen: 4
Species seen: Blue-winged Teal Number Seen: 3
Species seen: Red-breasted Merganser Number Seen: 7
Species seen: Pied-billed Grebe Number Seen: 4
Species seen: Brown Pelican Number Seen: 14
Species seen: Double-crested Cormorant Number Seen: 3
Species seen: Least Bittern Number Seen: 1
Species seen: Great Blue Heron Number Seen: 11
Species seen: Great Egret Number Seen: 2
Species seen: Snowy Egret Number Seen: 2
Species seen: Little Blue Heron Number Seen: 1
Species seen: Tricolored Heron Number Seen: 9
Species seen: Reddish Egret Number Seen: 3
Species seen: Green Heron Number Seen: 1
Species seen: White Ibis Number Seen: 7
Species seen: Roseate Spoonbill Number Seen: 2
Species seen: Osprey Number Seen: 1
Species seen: Merlin Number Seen: 1
Species seen: Clapper Rail Number Seen: 2
Species seen: Virginia Rail Number Seen: 1
Species seen: Sora Number Seen: 2
Species seen: Common Moorhen Number Seen: 3
Species seen: American Coot Number Seen: 1
Species seen: Black-bellied Plover Number Seen: 1
Species seen: Black-necked Stilt Number Seen: 7
Species seen: American Avocet Number Seen: 2
Species seen: Greater Yellowlegs Number Seen: 9
Species seen: Willet Number Seen: 21
Species seen: Lesser Yellowlegs Number Seen: 7
Species seen: Marbled Godwit Number Seen: 5
Species seen: Ruddy Turnstone Number Seen: 4
Species seen: Least Sandpiper Number Seen: 2
Species seen: Stilt Sandpiper Number Seen: 1
Species seen: Short-billed Dowitcher Number Seen: 30
Species seen: Laughing Gull Number Seen: 20
Species seen: Caspian Tern Number Seen: 2
Species seen: Forster's Tern Number Seen: 2
Species seen: Royal Tern Number Seen: 7
Species seen: Sandwich Tern Number Seen: 3
Species seen: Black Skimmer Number Seen: 200
Species seen: Eurasian Collared-Dove Number Seen: 5
Species seen: Mourning Dove Number Seen: 3
Species seen: Barn Swallow Number Seen: 3
Species seen: Long-billed Thrasher Number Seen: 1
Species seen: Tropical Parula Number Seen: 1
Species seen: Yellow-rumped Warbler Number Seen: 1
Species seen: Savannah Sparrow Number Seen: 5
Species seen: Lincoln's Sparrow Number Seen: 1
Species seen: Red-winged Blackbird Number Seen: 35
Species seen: Yellow-headed Blackbird Number Seen: 1
Species seen: Great-tailed Grackle Number Seen: 17
Species seen: Orchard Oriole Number Seen: 2