Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge Field Trip – Feb 3 2018

Marilyn and 21 birders drove along Black Point Drive and surrounding area for a wonderful day of birding.  Our count was 76 species

Gadwall

Wigeon

Blue-winged Teal

Shoveler

Lesser Scaup

Hooded Merganser

Loon

White Pelican

Pied-billed Grebe

Brown Pelican

Cormorant

Anhinga

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Snowy Egret

Little Blue Heron

Tricolor Heron

Reddish Egret

Cattle Egret

Green Heron

White Ibis

Glossy Ibis

Roseate Spoonbill

Wood Stork

Black Vulture

Turkey Vulture

Osprey

Bald Eagle

Harrier

Red-shouldered Hawk

Kestrel

Clapper Rail

Sora

Common Gallinule

Coot

Semipalmiated Plover

Killdeer

Greater Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs

Ruddy Turnstone

Sanderling

Least Sandpiper

Bonaparte’s Gull

Laughing Gull

Ring-billed Gull

Herring Gull

Great Black-backed Gull

Caspian Tern

Forster’s Tern

Royal Tern

Black Skimmer

Rock Pigeon

Eurasian Collared-Dove

Mourning Dove

Great Horned Owl

Kingfisher

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Flicker

Phoebe

Loggerhead Shrike

Fish Crow

Tree Swallow

Carolina Wren

Robin

Gray Catbird

Mocking Bird

Starling

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Pine Warbler

Palm Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

Cardinal

Red-winged Blackbird

Common Grackle

Boat-tailed Grackle