BIRDATHON 2001
When: April 25, 2001, midnight to midnight
Where: State of Louisiana
Who: Dan Christian, Jason Weckstein, Chris Witt
Number of species: 209 (record big day for state of Louisiana)
Here is a list, with estimated numbers, of all the birds we found on our big day. Below this list is a list of birds that we missed, but had a reasonable chance at finding.
Pied-billed Grebe – 3
American White Pelican – 25
Brown Pelican – 10
Double-crested Cormorant – 40
Neotropic Cormorant – 60
Anhinga – 1
American Bittern – 5
Least Bittern – 2
Great Blue Heron – 15
Great Egret – 70
Snowy Egret – 300
Little Blue Heron – 200
Tricolored Heron – 15
Reddish Egret – 1
Cattle Egret – 300
Green Heron – 40
Black-crowned Night-Heron – 30
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron – 25
White Ibis – 35
Glossy Ibis – 1
White-faced Ibis – 150
Roseate Spoonbill – 40
Fulvous-whistling Duck 20
Snow Goose – 1
Canada Goose – 2
Wood Duck – 5
Mottled Duck – 30
Mallard – 10
Blue-winged Teal – 100
Gadwall – 1
Lesser Scaup – 4
Red-breasted Merganser – 2
Ruddy Duck - 1
Black Vulture – 6
Turkey Vulture - 15
Osprey - 1
White-tailed Kite - 1
Mississippi Kite - 1
Northern Harrier - 3
Cooper’s Hawk - 1
Red-shouldered Hawk - 2
Broad-winged Hawk - 3
Swainson’s Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 6
Merlin - 2
Peregrine Falcon - 1
Wild Turkey - 2
Northern Bobwhite - 1
Clapper Rail - 2
King Rail - 1
Sora - 3
Purple Gallinule - 2
Common Moorhen - 10
American Coot - 12
Black-bellied Plover - 25
American Golden-Plover - 1
Wilson’s Plover - 4
Semipalmated Plover - 125
Killdeer - 30
American Oystercatcher - 1
Black-necked Stilt - 30
American Avocet - 8
Greater Yellowlegs - 10
Lesser Yellowlegs - 250
Solitary Sandpiper - 20
Willet - 40
Spotted Sandpiper - 7
Upland Sandpiper - 1
Whimbrel - 20
Marbled Godwit - 2
Ruddy Turnstone - 45
Sanderling - 30
Semipalmated Sandpiper – 50
Western Sandpiper - 3
Least Sandpiper - 200
White-rumped Sandpiper - 10
Pectoral Sandpiper - 25
Dunlin - 40
Stilt Sandpiper - 18
Buff-breasted Sandpiper - 26
Short-billed Dowitcher - 20
Long-billed Dowitcher - 100
Wilson’s Phalarope - 1
Laughing Gull - 400
Ring-billed Gull - 25
Herring Gull - 20
Caspian Tern - 4
Royal Tern - 150
Sandwich Tern - 10
Common Tern - 45
Forster’s Tern - 35
Least Tern - 20
Black Tern - 1
Black Skimmer - 50
Rock Dove - 20
Eurasian Collared Dove - 15
White-winged Dove - 10
Mourning Dove - 75
Inca Dove - 2
Black-billed Cuckoo - 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 20
Barn Owl - 2
Eastern Screech-Owl - 1
Great Horned Owl - 1
Barred Owl - 5
Common Nighthawk - 10
Chimney Swift - 40
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 30
Belted Kingfisher - 3
Red-headed Woodpecker - 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 10
Downy Woodpecker - 10
Hairy Woodpecker - 3
Red-cockaded Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker - 1
Pileated Woodpecker - 3
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 15
Acadian Flycatcher - 6
Great-crested Flycatcher - 20
Eastern Kingbird - 40
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 1
Purple Martin - 150
Tree Swallow - 200
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 100
Bank Swallow - 5
Cliff Swallow - 30
Cave Swallow - 2
Barn Swallow - 65
Blue Jay - 35
American Crow - 25
Fish Crow - 40
Carolina Chickadee - 15
Tufted Titmouse - 10
Brown-headed Nuthatch - 2
Carolina Wren - 20
Sedge Wren - 10
Marsh Wren - 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 8
Eastern Bluebird - 5
Veery - 20
Gray-cheeked Thrush - 4
Swainson’s Thrush - 12
Wood Thrush - 40
American Robin - 1
Gray Catbird - 150
Northern Mockingbird - 50
Brown Thrasher - 20
Cedar Waxwing - 10
Loggerhead Shrike - 24
European Starling - 100
White-eyed Vireo - 15
Yellow-throated Vireo - 6
Red-eyed Vireo - 45
Blue-winged Warbler - 1
Golden-winged Warbler - 1
Tennessee Warbler - 25
Northern Parula - 4
Yellow Warbler - 14
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 8
Magnolia Warbler - 3
Myrtle Warbler - 2
Black-throated Green Warbler - 4
Blackburnian Warbler - 2
Yellow-throated Warbler - 2
Pine Warbler - 30
Prairie Warbler - 1
Bay-breasted Warbler - 12
Blackpoll Warbler - 8
Cerulean Warbler - 1
Black-and-white Warbler - 16
Prothonotary Warbler - 6
Worm-eating Warbler - 4
Swainson’s Warbler - 1
Ovenbird - 40
Northern Waterthrush - 15
Kentucky Warbler - 18
Common Yellowthroat - 8
Hooded Warbler - 12
Wilson’s Warbler - 1
Yellow-breasted Chat - 20
Summer Tanager - 28
Scarlet Tanager - 35
Northern Cardinal - 80
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 30
Blue Grosbeak - 25
Indigo Bunting - 85
Painted Bunting - 1
Dickcissel - 2
Bachman’s Sparrow - 25
Chipping Sparrow - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 20
LeConte’s Sparrow - 1
Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow - 3
Seaside Sparrow - 2
Lincoln’s Sparrow - 1
Swamp Sparrow - 1
White-throated Sparrow - 17
White-crowned Sparrow - 5
Bobolink - 16
Red-winged Blackbird - 250
Eastern Meadowlark - 30
Great-tailed Grackle - 50
Boat-tailed Grackle - 250
Common Grackle - 150
Brown-headed Cowbird - 100
Orchard Oriole - 22
Baltimore Oriole - 2
House Finch - 1
House Sparrow - 10
Species we missed, but had a reasonable chance at finding:
Northern Gannet
Black-bellied Whistling Duck (seen the previous day)
Green-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
American Kestrel
Virginia Rail
Snowy Plover
Piping Plover
Red Knot
Baird’s Sandpiper
Common Snipe
American Woodcock
Bonaparte’s Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Chuck-wills-widow
All Empidonax other than Acadian
House Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Nashville Warbler
American Redstart
Canada Warbler
Eastern Towhee
American Goldfinch