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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


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