The 2021 Miami (Dade County) Christmas Bird Count took place on Saturday, December 18. Forty-two participants counted 16,143 birds of 122 species on count day. Unusual species recorded during the count included Limpkin, Eastern Whip-poor-will (photo courtesy of Steve Woodmansee) and Louisiana Waterthrush. New high counts were obtained for Wood Stork, Black-and-white Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler, Prairie Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler and Summer Tanager.
Thanks to the following for their assistance during the count (party leaders in bold):
Backyards: Lyndy Lambert and Bonnie O’Meara
Biscayne Bay – Kirsten Hines , Jim and Phillip Kushlan and Ana Lima
Downtown Miami – Bob and Alice Pace , Jeanette Rawls and Lorena Siqueira
El Portal – Stephen Paez
Fisher Island – Joe Barros , Marian Hyman, Sandy Millidge and Helen Torres
Greynold’s Park - John Boyd , Nancy Freedman and Debbie and Greg Jones
Little Havana/MIA - Dennis Olle , Miriam Avello, James Jones, Leigh Emerson Smith, Bertha Vazquez and Facel Vega
Miami Beach – Brian Rapoza , Federico Acevedo and Luis Gonzalez
Miami Shores/North Miami - Luis Gles and Mariah Hryniewich
Miami Springs/Hialeah – Andrea Diamond , Betty Hernandez, Jeanne Kaufmann and Michelle Louden
Oleta River State Park - Liz Golden and Natalie Mahomar
Opa-Locka – Joe Montes de Oca , Gregory Hamlin, Fritz (Boch) Hoeflein and Steve Woodmansee
Virginia Key – Bill Boeringer and Hans Gonzembach
Following are the totals for each species (non-countable species in bold):
Graylag Goose 6
Canada Goose 1
Egyptian Goose 200
Muscovy Duck 270
Mallard
Mottled Duck 20
Blue-winged Teal 32
Ring-necked Duck 4
Red-breasted Merganser 9
Helmeted Guineafowl 28
Indian Peafowl 9
Pied-billed Grebe 34
American Flamingo 174
Wood Stork 80
Magnificent Frigatebird 35
Double-crested Cormorant 450
Anhinga 23
Brown Pelican 240
Great Blue Heron (Blue form) 22, (White form) 2
Great Egret 45
Snowy Egret 12
Little Blue Heron 18
Tricolored Heron 12
Cattle Egret 50
Green Heron 15
Black-crowned Night-Heron 9
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 10
White Ibis 1680
Black Vulture 265
Turkey Vulture 1400
Osprey 47
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper’s Hawk 10
Bald Eagle 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 12
Broad-winged Hawk 1
Short-tailed Hawk 10
Red-tailed Hawk 3
Common Gallinule 97
American Coot 30
Limpkin 1
Black-bellied Plover 285
Semipalmated Plover 25
Piping Plover 2
Killdeer 4
Spotted Sandpiper 4
Willet 2
Ruddy Turnstone 11
Sanderling 100
Dunlin 1
Least Sandpiper 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 11
Laughing Gull 2100
Ring-billed Gull 125
Herring Gull 11
Lesser Black-backed Gull 8
Great Black-backed Gull 3
Forster’s Tern 4
Royal Tern 230
Sandwich Tern 3
Black Skimmer 150
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 500
White-crowned Pigeon 1
Eurasian Collared-Dove 470
Common Ground-Dove 2
White-winged Dove 14
Mourning Dove 150
Eastern Screech-Owl 5
Eastern Whip-poor-will 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 18
Belted Kingfisher 14
Red-bellied Woodpecker 100
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 12
Downy Woodpecker 8
American Kestrel 55
Peregrine Falcon 2
Monk Parakeet 42
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet 60
Orange-winged Parrot 8
Chestnut-fronted Macaw 32
Mitred Parakeet 34
Red-masked Parakeet 9
White-eyed Parakeet 68
Eastern Phoebe 24
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Loggerhead Shrike 17
White-eyed Vireo 7
Yellow-throated Vireo 5
Blue-headed Vireo 14
Blue Jay 140
Fish Crow 1800
House Wren 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 270
Gray Catbird 21
Northern Mockingbird 210
European Starling 2100
Common Myna 11
Ovenbird 7
Louisiana Waterthrush 1
Northern Waterthrush 2
Black-and-white Warbler 49
Orange-crowned Warbler 5
Common Yellowthroat 12
American Redstart 18
Cape May Warbler 6
Northern Parula 51
Magnolia Warbler 4
Black-throated Blue Warbler 16
Palm Warbler 350
Pine Warbler 34
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 85
Yellow-throated Warbler 36
Prairie Warbler 50
Black-throated Green Warbler 13
Summer Tanager 7
Northern Cardinal 49
Painted Bunting 19
Eastern Meadowlark 2
Common Grackle 300
Boat-tailed Grackle 235
Spot-breasted Oriole 4
House Sparrow 110