BIG “O” BIRDING FESTIVAL APRIL 3-6, 2009
TRIP RESULTS
Clewiston, FL—Hendry and GladesCounties
Sties and species lists: Lists include birds seen driving to and from sites. Some sites are compilation of several tours (e.g., Lake Okeechobee boat ride).
OK SLOUGH STATE FOREST AND WMA = OK South Florida Birding Trail Site included in FWC guides (also Prany 2005 Birders Guide to Florida)
STORMWATER TREATMENT AREA 5 = STA 5 South Florida Birding Trail Site included in FWC guides and Pranty page 211
DINNER ISLAND RANCH WMA = DIR South Florida Birding Trail Site included in FWC guides
FISHEATING CREEK WMA(MAIN STREET) = FEC see South Florida Birding Trail Site included in FWC guides
LAKE OKEECHOBEE SCENIC TRAIL = LOST includes riding the Hoover Dike from Clewiston to Uncle Joe’s Fish Camp
LAKE OKEECHOBEE = LO includes pontoon boat ride out Clewiston channel and along canal to the west of the main channel, also the outer spit islands of the waterway
AH-TAH-THI-KI MUSEUM ON BIG CYPRESS SEMINOLE RESERVATION = ATTK
HENDRYCOUNTY = HC includes non-field trip observations in the region
VENUS LOOP = VLfrom Pranty page 165 and including Detjens Dairy Road (SR17)
HARNEY POND AND FT. CENTER WMA = HPFC Includes the observation towers along HarneyPondCanal and the Ft. Center trail and native American mound sites South Florida Birding Trail Site and Pranty page 168.
OK / STA5 / DIR / FEC / LOST / LO / ATTK / HC / VL / HPFCBlack-bellied Whistling duck / X
Fulvous Whistling-Duck / X / X
Muscovy Duck / X
Wood Duck / X
Mottled Duck / X / X / X / X / X
Blue-winged Teal / X / X / X / X
Northern Shoveler / X / X / X
Ring-necked Duck / X
Lesser Scaup / X
Red-breasted Merganser / X
Wild Turkey / X / X / X / X / X / X
Northern Bobwhite / X / X / X
Pied-billed Grebe / X
American White Pelican / X / X
Brown Pelican / X / X
Double-crested Cormorant / X / X / X / X / X
Anhinga / X / X / X / X / X
American Bittern / X / X
Least Bittern / X
Great Blue Heron / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Great White Heron (White Morph Great Blue) / X
OK / STA5 / DIR / FEC / LOST / LO / ATTK / HC / VL / HPFC
Great Egret / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Snowy Egret / X / X / X / X / X
Little Blue Heron / X / X / X / X / X / X
Tricolored Heron / X / X / X / X
Cattle Egret / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Green Heron / X / X / X / X / X
Black-crowned Night-Heron / X
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron / X / X / X
White Ibis / X / X / X / X / X
Glossy Ibis / X / X / X / X
Roseate Spoonbill / X / X / X
Wood Stork / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Black Vulture / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Turkey Vulture / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Osprey / X / X / X / X / X
Swallow-tailed Kite / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
White-tailed Kite / X
Snail Kite / X
Bald Eagle / X / X / X / X
Nest
Northern Harrier / X / X / X / X
Cooper’s Hawk / X
Red-shouldered Hawk / X / X / X / X
Nest w/ 2 young / X
Nest w/ young / X / X nest / X
Short-tailed Hawk / X / X
Red-tailed Hawk / X
Crested Caracara / X / X
Nest on tower / X / X / X / X
American Kestrel / X / X / X / X / X / X
Peregrine Falcon / X / X
King Rail / X
Sora / X / X
OK / STA5 / DIR / FEC / LOST / LO / ATTK / HC / VL / HPFC
Purple Gallinule / X / X
Purple Swamphen / X
Common Moorhen / X / X / X / X / X
American Coot / X / X / X / X
Limpkin / X / X / X
Sandhill Crane / X / X / X
2 colts / X / X
nest
Killdeer / X / X / X / X
Black-necked Stilt / X / X / X / X
American Avocet / X / X
Spotted Sandpiper / X
Solitary Sandpiper / X
Greater Yellowlegs / X / X / X
Lesser Yellowlegs / X / X / X / X
Ruddy Turnstone / X
Least Sandpiper / X
Long-billed Dowitcher / X
Wilson’s Snipe / X / X
Laughing Gull / X / X / X
Ring-billed Gull / X / X / X
Herring Gull / X
Caspian Tern / X / X / X / X
Forster’s Tern / X
Royal Tern / X
Black Skimmer / X
Rock Pigeon / X / X / X
Eurasian Collared-Dove / X / X / X / X / X
White-winged Dove / X / X
Mourning Dove / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Common Ground-Dove / X / X / X / X / X
Barn Owl / X (Palm BeachCounty)
OK / STA5 / DIR / FEC / LOST / LO / ATTK / HC / VL / HPFC
Barred Owl / X / X / X
nest
Whip-poor-will / X
Chimney Swift / X
Ruby-throated Hummingbird / X
Belted Kingfisher / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Red-bellied Woodpecker / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker / X
Downy Woodpecker / X / X
Pileated Woodpecker / X
Great Crested Flycatcher / X / X / X / X / X
Western Kingbird / X
Eastern Kingbird / X / X
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher / X / X / X
Loggerhead Shrike / X / X / X / X
White-eyed Vireo / X / X / X / X
Blue-headed Vireo / X
Blue Jay / X / X / X / X
Florida Scrub-Jay / X
American Crow / X / X / X / X / X
Fish Crow / X / X
Purple Martin / X / X / X / X
Tree Swallow / X / X / X / X / X / X
Northern Rough-winged Swallow / X / X / X / X
Barn Swallow / X
Tufted Titmouse / X / X / X
Carolina Wren / X / X / X / X / X / X
Marsh Wren / X / X / X / X
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher / X / X / X
Eastern Bluebird / X
OK / STA5 / DIR / FEC / LOST / LO / ATTK / HC / VL / HPFC
Gray Catbird / X / X / X / X
Northern Mockingbird / X / X / X / X / X / X
Brown Thrasher / X / X
Common Myna / X McD’s and BK / X
European Starling / X / X / X
Northern Parula / X / X / X / X
Magnolia Warbler / X
Yellow-rumped Warbler / X
Prairie Warbler / X
Palm Warbler / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Black-and-white Warbler / X / X
American Redstart / X
Common Yellowthroat / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Eastern Towhee / X / X
Grasshopper Sparrow / X
Savannah Sparrow / X / X / X
Swamp Sparrow / X
Northern Cardinal / X / X / X / X / X / X
Indigo Bunting / X
Red-winged Blackbird / X / X / X / X / X / X
Eastern Meadowlark / X / X / X
Common Grackle / X / X / X / X
Boat-tailed Grackle / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Brown-headed Cowbird / X
House Sparrow / X / X / X
Mammals:
2 otters Rainey Slough