Venice Area Audubon Society

Rett Oren, Venice Area Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count (CBC) organizer compiled the information for this year's 2008 CBC.

Venice Christmas Bird Count Area 2008 - Dec 16, 2008
	2007 Totals	2008 Totals
Common Loon	7	2
Pie-Billed Grebe	51	138
Northern Gannet	0	2
American White Pelican	15 CW	27
Brown Pelican	329	497
Double-crested Cormorant	450	628
Anhinga	181	199
Magnificent Frigatebird	4	2
Least Bittern	0	1
Great Blue Heron	231	194
Great Egret	306	270
Snowy Egret	257	181
Little Blue Heron	155	202
Tricolored Heron	76	75
Reddish Egret	2	2
Cattle Egret	59	80
Green Heron	12	13
Black-crowned Night Heron	17	11
Yellow-crowned Night Heron	18	29
White Ibis	644	631
Glossy Ibis	255	25
Roseate Spoonbill	1	0
Wood Stork	181	126
Wood Duck	5	5
Green-winged Teal	3	2
Mottled Duck	288	286
Blue-winged Teal	85	43
Northern Shoveler	2 CW	0
Black-bellied Whistling Duck	181	357
Ring-necked Duck	15	142
Lesser Scaup	172	207
Bufflehead	0	14
Hooded Merganser	35	160
Red-breasted Merganser	14	15
Ruddy Duck	1	0
Black Vulture	283	373
Turkey Vulture	373	402
Osprey	75	111
Bald Eagle	31	38
Northern Harrier	2	1
Sharp-shinned Hawk	4	2
Cooper's Hawk	7	5
Red-shouldered Hawk	76	66
Red-tailed hawk	15	11
American Kestrel	35	33
Merlin	0	1
Peregrine Falcon	1	1 CW
Wild Turkey	1	1 CW
King Rail	1	1
Sora	1	1
Common Moorhen	192	183
American Coot	92	78
Limpkin	1	1
Sandhill Crane	83	59
Black-bellied Plover	59	106
Wilson's Plover	0	2
Semipalmated Plover	27	30
Killdeer	340	300
American Oystercatcher	2	2
Greater Yellowlegs	8	12
Lesser Yellowlegs	4	2
Willet	41	83
Spotted Sandpiper	17	6
Marbled Godwit	1	0
Ruddy Turnstone	52	126
Red Knot	22	0
Sanderling	234	283
Western Sandpiper	0	5
Least Sandpiper	219	371
Dunlin	7	65
Short-billed Dowitcher	0	16
Wilson's Snipe	15	13
Laughing Gull	906	1064
Ring-billed Gull	300	228
Herring Gull	18	9
Caspian Tern	0	1
Royal Tern	261	273
Sandwich Tern	71	138
Common Tern	0	5
Forster's Tern	263	128
Black Skimmer	88	160
Rock Pigeon	261	14
White-winged Dove	1	3
Mourning Dove	993	436
Common Ground Dove	40	17
Eastern Screech Owl	7	6
Great Horned Owl	11	11
Barred Owl	4	2
Belted Kingfisher	64	47
Red-headed Woodpecker	4	11
Red-bellied Woodpecker	168	135
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	1	2
Downy Woodpecker	23	18
Hairy Woodpecker	2	2
Northern Flicker	13	15
Pileated Woodpecker	22	26
Eurasian Collared-Dove	227	66
Monk Parakeet	41	6
Eastern Phoebe	39	58
Western Kingbird	0	1
Tree Swallow	2805	1215
Rough-winged Swallow	0	2
Blue Jay	97	143
Florida Scrub Jay	16	20
American Crow	44	60
Fish Crow	745	362
Brown-headed Nuthatch	24	4
Tufted Titmouse	1	4
Carolina Wren	41	56
House Wren	22	39
Marsh Wren	1	1
Sedge Wren	0	6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	2	5
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	129	149
Eastern Bluebird	27	12
Hermit Thrush	0	0
American Robin	1978	748
Gray Catbird	125	217
Northern Mockingbird	235	165
Brown Thrasher	3	3
Loggerhead Shrike	50	31
European Starling	1302	1295
White-eyed Vireo	9	10
Blue-headed Vireo	4	6
Yellow-rumped Warbler	2078	899
Yellow-throated Warbler	11	10
Pine Warbler	125	143
Prairie Warbler	7	3
Palm Warbler	341	349
Black & White Warbler	0	9
Common Yellowthroat	30	39
Northern Cardinal	93	99
Indigo Bunting	6	0
Painted Bunting	2	3
Eastern Towhee	9	18
Chipping Sparrow	6	7
Lark Sparrow	2	0
Savannah Sparrow	5	42
Grasshopper Sparrow	0	CW 1
Swamp Sparrow	6	10
Red-winged Blackbird	436	211
Eastern Meadowlark	6	7
Boat-tailed Grackle	550	272
Common Grackle	754	796
Brown-headed Cowbird	88	267
House Finch	5	2
American Goldfinch	25	91
House Sparrow	93	19
Duck, Muscovy	3	1
Swift, Chimney	3	7
Tennessee Warbler	0	1
Black-throated Gray warbler	0	1

Individual Totals	22528	18095
Species seen on Count Day	133	144
Count week new species	2	3

2008 Christmas Bird Count - Downloadable PDF Document