Great Loop Bird List

Following is a list of birds we saw during our trip. Although we saw most of these birds many times, we only list each species once, the first time we saw it during the trip (or the first time we realized we hadn't yet put it on the list).

An asterisk (*) next to a bird indicates that it is our first time seeing the bird, or in birding parlance, it is a "life bird," a new addition to our life list.

1/25/05

1. Double-Crested Cormorant Skull Creek SC

2. Snowy Egret Oatland Island SC

3. Great Egret Marshes near SC/GA border

4. Tri-colored Heron "

5. Red-Breasted Merganser White Marsh Is., Savannah

6. Killdeer Isle of Hope, near Savannah

7. Semipalmated Plover "

8. Hooded Merganser "

1/26/05

9. Belted Kingfisher Isle of Hope, GA

10. Ring-billed Gull Skidaway Narrows, GA

11. Forster's Tern Moon River, GA

1/27/05

12. White Ibis Little St. Simon's Island, GA

1/28/05

13. Laughing Gull St. Andrew's Sound, GA

14. Greater Scaup* "

1/31/05 Fernandina Beach, FL

15. Great Black-backed Gull

16. Purple Sandpiper*

17. Herring Gull

18. Black Skimmer

19. Ruddy Turnstone

2/1/05

20. White Pelican Amelia Is.and, FL

21. Common Loon St. Augustine, FL

2/2/05

22. Bald Eagle Crescent Beach, FL

23. Royal Tern Matanzas River, FL

2/3/05

24. Red-tailed Hawk Indian R., south of new Smyrna Beach

25. Bonaparte's Gull Indian R.

2/5/05 Titusville

26. Osprey

2/8/05

27. Horned Grebe Loxahatchee R.

28. Euarasian Collared Dove S. Palm Beach

29. Brown Pelican S. Palm Beach

2/12/05

30. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Riviera Beach

2/14/05

31. Turkey Vulture Manatee Pocket, FL

2/15/05 Clewiston

32. Loggerhead Shrike

33. Northern Mockingbird (Florida's State Bird)

34. Robin

35. Blue Jay

36. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

37. Yellow-rumped Warbler

38. Common Moorhen

39. Great Blue Heron

2/16/05

40. Red-winged Blackbird Lake Okeechobee

41. Limpkin Lake Okeechobee

42. Sandhill Crane Moore Haven Lock

43. Kestrel "

44. Black Vulture "

2/17/05

45. Mallard LaBelle, FL

46. Wood Stork Fort Myers

2/18/05 Miami

47. Monk Parakeet*

2/20/05 Ding Darling Preserve, Sanibel Island

48. Greater Yellowlegs

49. Willet

50. Little Blue Heron

51. Reddish Egret

52. Roseate Spoonbill

53. Pied-billed Grebe

54. Spotted Sandpiper

55. Red-bellied Woodpecker

56. Prairie Warbler

57. Cardinal

58. Black-bellied Plover

59. Dunlin

60. Least Sandpiper

2/21/05 Centennial Harbor Marina, Fort Myers FL

61. Palm Warbler

62. Green Heron

2/25/05 Cape Coral FL

63. Blue-winged Teal Rotary Park

64. Green-winged Teal "

65. Red-shouldered Hawk "

66. Gray Catbird

2/26/05 Cape Coral

67. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

68. Starling

69. Boat-tailed Grackle

3/1/01 Fort Myers

70. Cattle Egret

3/2/05 Fort Myers

71. Rock Dove

3/3/05 Centennial Harbor Marina, Fort Myers FL

72. Tree Swallow

3/5/05 Sanibel/Captiva

74.Pileated Woodpecker Ding Darling Preserve

75. Short-billed Dowitcher

76. Magnificent Frigatebird

77. Sandwich Tern Sanibel beach

78.Anhinga

3/6/05 Cape Coral

79. Burrowing Owl

80. House Sparrow

3/13/05

81. American Coot Okeechobee Canal near Indiantown

3/19/05

82. American Oystercatcher Mosquito Lagoon

3/20/05

83. Black-crowned Night-heron St. Augustine Municipal Marina

84. Whimbrel ICW mudflat south of St. Augustine

3/26/05 Jekyll Island

85. Carolina Chickadee

86. Chipping Sparrow

87. Mourning Dove

3/29/05 Jekyll Island

88 Eastern Towhee

3/31/05 Skull Creek, Hilton Head Island

89 Bufflehead

4/8/05 Marsh Harbor, Beaufort, SC

90 Tufted Titmouse

91Carolina Wren

4/9/05 Beaufort, SC

92 House Finch

4/17/05 Mt. Pleasant /Patriot Pt., SC

93 Fish Crow

4/18/05

94 Common Eider Charleston Harbor Marina

95 Barn Swallow Andersonville, SC

96 Purple Martin Georgetown, SC

4/20/05 ICW South of Myrtle Beach

97 Prothonotary Warbler

4/22/05

98 Canada Goose North Myrtle Beach, SC

99 Least Tern* Nixon Crossroads, SC

4/23/05 Southport, NC

100 Brown Thrasher

4/28/05 Oriental, NC

101 Chimney Swift

5/10/05

102 Common Tern Chesapeake Bay near Crisfield, MD

103 Ruby-throated Hummingbird Janes Island SP, Crisfield

104 Eastern Bluebird "

105 Ovenbird "

106 Brown-headed Cowbird "

107 American Goldfinch "

5/11/05 Tangier Island, VA (Chesapeake Bay)

108 Song Sparrow

109 American Black Duck*

5/12/05

110 Savannah Sparrow Tangier Island, VA

111 Common Yellowthroat (m) "

112 Summer Tanager (m) Coan River, VA

5/16/05 Solomons, MD

113 Mute Swan

5/17/05 Chesapeake City, MD

114 American Crow

115 Orchard Oriole* (young m, f)

116 White-eyed Vireo*

117 Eastern Kingbird

118 Yellow-breasted Chat

5/24/05 Lums Pond S.P., Delaware

119 Indigo Bunting

120 Hairy Woodpecker

5/26/05 Delaware Bay, New Jersey

121 Northern Gannet (imm., many)

5/27/05 Cape May, New Jersey

122 Great Crested Flycatcher Higbee Beach Preserve

123 Blue Grosbeak "

124 Sanderling "

5/28/05 Cape May, New Jersey

125 Common Grackle Rea's Farm

126 Red-eyed Vireo "

127 American Redstart (m,f) "

128 Black-and-white Warbler "

129 Blackpoll Warbler* "

130 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

131 Northern Flicker "

132 Downy Woodpecker "

133 Yellow Warbler "

134 Red Knot* Reed Beach

135 Semipalmated Sandpiper "

136 Western Sandpiper "

5/30/05 Birding with Peter Dunne at "The Meadow" Cape May

137 Glossy Ibis

138 Piping Plover

139 Gadwall*

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