My 1st ever "IW state of the birds" post was for the 2021-2022 season. I am cloning this post from that post. That post contains discussions of things I found interesting about a lot of the species.
I was of 2 minds about posting the data from 2020-2021. There were only 9 X & X2 datasets, and the final X dataset, on March 4, 2021, was cut short when the arch of my right foot totally gave out at the 4.5 mile point in the 5.41 mile walk. I went straight home (cut down Freeport rather than walking the SW corner) and finished at 5.0. But, there is a bird issue, and I wanted this data for comparison purposes, so I went on and entered it.
[Note, I have quit going barefoot on our tile floors, and have put arch supports in all my shoes & my new comfy slippers, and my feet are doing much better. :-) Hopefully I will be up to walking the 5.41 & 5.47 mile X & X2 routes by December.]
I will do a follow-up post on the bird issue I mentioned. (Hint: cormorants).
I manually entered this data in this spreadsheet
I will be reporting for all observed species the following 4 datapoints:
- % of days seen;
- total birds counted;
- average;
- max.
Doing this post ~18 months after the fact, I don't remember any fun anecdotes to share.
Here's the link to the IslandWalk hotspot at eBird.org.
Each bird name listed below is linked to its IslandWalk activity page in eBird.org. So click on the name, you will get a picture & all the data eBird has on that bird in IslandWalk.
Swimmers
I guess all are dabbling "ducks"? "Dabbling" === "stick your bill down in the water & swish it around & eat what you get from that" - as opposed to diving ducks.- mottled duck: % days 100; tot 293; avg 33; max 51.
- muscovy duck: % days 100; tot 186; avg 21; max 41.
- common gallinule: % days 56; tot 9; avg 1.8; max 3.
Divers
- pie-billed grebe: % days 100; tot 53; avg 5.9; max 13.
- hooded merganser: % days 56; tot 20; avg 4.0; max 10.
- lesser scaup: % days 56; tot 20; avg 4.0; max 6.
- ring-necked duck: % days 56; tot 21; avg 4.2; max 6.
- double-crested cormorant: % days 100; tot 29; avg 3.2; max 10.
- anhinga: % days 100; tot 54; avg 6.0; max 10.
- brown pelican: % days 56; tot 9; avg 1.8; max 5.
- belted kingfisher: % days 0.
Waders
- great egret: % days 100; tot 42; avg 4.7; max 6.
- great blue heron: % days 44; tot 4; avg 1.0; max 1.
- snowy egret: % days 89; tot 14; avg 1.8; max 3.
- cattle egret: % days 11; tot 1; avg 1.0; max 1.
- tricolored heron: % days 100; tot 36; avg 4.0; max 7.
- little blue heron: % days 33; tot 3; avg 1.0; max 1.
- green heron: % days 0.
- wood stork: % days 44; tot 4; avg 1.0; max 1.
- white ibis: % days 100; tot 166; avg 18.4; max 41.
- glossy ibis: % days 78; tot 51; avg 7.3; max 14.
- limpkin: % days 0.
Beach Birds
- killdeer: % days 11; tot 1; avg 1.0; max 1.
- black skimmer: % days 0.
Raptors
- osprey: % days 67; tot 8; avg 1.3; max 2.
- bald eagle: % days 0.
- cooper's hawk: % days 0.
- red-shouldered hawk: % days 0.
- broad-winged hawk: % days 0.
- swallow-tailed kite: % days 0.
- loggerhead shrike: % days 22; tot 5; avg 2.5; max 4.
- black vulture: % days 11; tot 2; avg 2.0; max 2.
- turkey vulture: % days 78; tot 14; avg 2.0; max 4.
Corvids
Perching Birds (Passerines)
- mourning dove: % days 100; tot 32; avg 3.6; max 8.
- eurasian collared dove: % days 22; tot 3; avg 1.5; max 2.
- common ground dove: % days 0.
- common grackle: % days 100; tot 77; avg 8.6; max 61.
- boat-tailed grackle: % days 11; tot 1; avg 1.0; max 1.
- red-winged blackbird: % days 0.
- european starling: % days 0.
- northern mockingbird: % days 89; tot 65; avg 8.1; max 42.
- brown thrasher: % days 0.
- northern cardinal: % days 0.
- red-bellied woodpecker: % days 78, tot 44, avg 6.3, max 15.
- pileated woodpecker: % days 0.
- downy woodpecker: % days 0.
- northern flicker: % days 0.
- palm warbler: % days 100; tot 85; avg 9.4; max 20.
- black-and-white warbler: % days 0.
- yellow-throated warbler: % days 0.
- prairie warbler: % days 0.
- blue-gray gnatcatcher: % days 22; tot 3; avg 1.5; max 2.
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