Great Backyard Bird Count: 2009 Results: Saint Petersburg, Florida

2009 Results: Saint Petersburg, Florida

This town report includes all data submitted to the town and to all postal codes associated with the town.

Other years: 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Species [taxonomic] [alphabetic]	Number of Birds	Number of Checklists Reporting the Species
Wood Duck	2	1
Mallard	50	12
Mottled Duck	68	15
Blue-winged Teal	7	4
Green-winged Teal	1	1
Canvasback	1	1
Redhead	173	2
Ring-necked Duck	11	2
Lesser Scaup	802	11
Hooded Merganser	4	1
Red-breasted Merganser	110	11
Ruddy Duck	4	1
Wild Turkey	2	1
Common Loon	256	5
Pied-billed Grebe	31	7
Horned Grebe	1	1
American White Pelican	179	6
Brown Pelican	434	40
Double-crested Cormorant	561	51
Anhinga	139	28
American Bittern	1	1
Great Blue Heron	135	38
Great Egret	238	40
Snowy Egret	115	31
Little Blue Heron	32	21
Tricolored Heron	33	16
Reddish Egret	7	7
Cattle Egret	112	11
Green Heron	6	4
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron	54	5
White Ibis	576	46
Glossy Ibis	11	2
Roseate Spoonbill	21	14
Wood Stork	55	14
Black Vulture	167	19
Turkey Vulture	549	27
Osprey	193	44
Bald Eagle	11	8
Northern Harrier	4	3
Sharp-shinned Hawk	3	3
Cooper's Hawk	15	10
Red-shouldered Hawk	16	9
Broad-winged Hawk	2	2
Red-tailed Hawk	12	9
American Kestrel	32	8
Merlin	4	4
Clapper Rail	1	1
Virginia Rail	1	1
Purple Gallinule	2	1
Common Moorhen	105	20
American Coot	49	7
Limpkin	8	6
Black-bellied Plover	214	8
Snowy Plover	7	4
Wilson's Plover	45	3
Semipalmated Plover	178	6
Piping Plover	19	4
Killdeer	48	4
American Oystercatcher	18	9
Black-necked Stilt	3	1
Spotted Sandpiper	3	1
Greater Yellowlegs	11	2
Willet	304	16
Lesser Yellowlegs	23	2
Whimbrel	1	1
Marbled Godwit	196	5
Ruddy Turnstone	104	13
Red Knot	30	2
Sanderling	410	17
Western Sandpiper	128	5
Least Sandpiper	132	5
Dunlin	1,077	9
Short-billed Dowitcher	145	3
Wilson's Snipe	1	1
Bonaparte's Gull	6	2
Laughing Gull	2,267	53
Ring-billed Gull	1,074	37
Herring Gull	136	14
Lesser Black-backed Gull	1	1
Caspian Tern	10	3
Forster's Tern	279	16
Royal Tern	400	13
Sandwich Tern	32	6
Black Skimmer	2,291	8
Rock Pigeon	121	15
Eurasian Collared-Dove	108	27
White-winged Dove	2	1
Mourning Dove	220	36
Common Ground-Dove	18	6
Black-hooded Parakeet	124	15
Monk Parakeet	102	11
Eastern Screech-Owl	1	1
Great Horned Owl	3	3
Belted Kingfisher	23	16
Red-headed Woodpecker	4	4
Red-bellied Woodpecker	26	16
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	1	1
Downy Woodpecker	11	8
Hairy Woodpecker	1	1
Northern Flicker	3	3
Pileated Woodpecker	2	2
Eastern Phoebe	11	5
Loggerhead Shrike	29	10
White-eyed Vireo	1	1
Blue-headed Vireo	3	3
Blue Jay	158	30
American Crow	58	12
Fish Crow	2,746	33
Carolina Chickadee	1	1
Tufted Titmouse	4	2
Sedge Wren	3	1
Marsh Wren	2	1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	5	3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	45	16
Hermit Thrush	3	3
American Robin	313,996	10
Gray Catbird	33	8
Northern Mockingbird	101	35
Brown Thrasher	9	6
European Starling	47,830	20
Cedar Waxwing	2,080	5
Orange-crowned Warbler	2	1
Northern Parula	3	2
Yellow-rumped Warbler	398	17
Yellow-throated Warbler	1	1
Pine Warbler	19	9
Prairie Warbler	4	4
Palm Warbler	257	18
Black-and-white Warbler	5	3
Ovenbird	2	2
Northern Waterthrush	2	2
Common Yellowthroat	2	1
Eastern Towhee	2	1
Chipping Sparrow	3	1
Savannah Sparrow	18	4
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow	1	1
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow	2	1
Song Sparrow	4	2
Swamp Sparrow	3	1
Northern Cardinal	76	22
Red-winged Blackbird	492	12
Rusty Blackbird	1	1
Common Grackle	40,133	20
Boat-tailed Grackle	192	19
Brown-headed Cowbird	2,249	8
House Finch	22	7
American Goldfinch	39	10
House Sparrow	44	10
Total	426,863

A total of 148 species were reported.

See a summary for Florida.

This report was updated 15-Mar-2009 16:25 ET. Bird checklists submitted to GBBC are included on these results within about 2 hours of submission.