Results

2024

2023

# Species

153 + 1cw

149 +3cw

# of Individual Birds

33,550

31,461

# Participants

61

65

Weather

Sunny / Light Rain late

Rain

New for 2024

Dips from 2023

Northern Pintail

Gadwall

Black Scoter cw

Bufflehead

American Bittern

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Piping Plover

Red Knot

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Great Black-backed Gull?

White-winged Dove

Northern Flicker

Peregrine Falcon

Cedar Waxwing

Northern Parula

Black-throated Blue Warbler

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14+1cw vs 6+2cw in 2023

American Wigeon

Short-tailed Hawk

American Avocet

Solitary Sandpiper

Long-billed Dowitcher

Crested Caracara

Carolina Chickadee

Brown Thrasher

Orange-crowned Warbler

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9 vs 17 in 2023

High Counts >20% from 2023

* Over 50% Increase

Black-bellied Whistling Duck

Redhead*

Ring-necked Duck

Hooded Merganser*

Anhinga*

American White Pelican *

Snowy Egret*

Little Blue Heron*

Tricolored Heron*

Reddish Egret*

Western Cattle Egret*

Green Heron*

Black-crowned Night-heron*

Yellow-crowned Night-heron

Glossy Ibis

Turkey Vulture

Osprey

Cooper’s Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk*

American Coot

American Oystercatcher*

Black-bellied Plover*

Semipalmated Plover

Killdeer*

Willet*

Marbled Godwit*

Sanderling*

Dunlin*

Least Sandpiper*

Western Sandpiper*

American Herring Gull*

Royal Tern*

Black Skimmer*

Eurasian Collared-dove

High Counts >20% from 2023

* Over 50% Increase

Eastern Screech-owl*

Barred Owl*

Red-bellied Woodpecker*

Downy Woodpecker*

Pileated Woodpecker*

American Kestrel

Nanday Parakeet

Eastern Phoebe

Blue-headed Vireo*

Blue Jay*

American Crow*

Tufted Titmouse

Northern House Wren*

Sedge Wren*

Marsh Wren*

Carolina Wren*

Ruby-crowned Kinglet*

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Eastern Bluebird

Hermit Thrush*

American Robin*

Northern Mockingbird*

European Starling

Ovenbird*

Black-and-white Warbler*

Pine Warbler

Yellow-throated Warbler*

Prairie Warbler*

Swamp Sparrow*

Indigo Bunting*

Eastern Meadowlark*

Common Grackle*

American Goldfinch*

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66/47 vs 29/9 in 2023

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Low Counts <20% from 2023

* Over 50% Decrease

Canada Goose*

Muscovy Duck

Wood Duck*

Mallard*

Mallard x Mottled Duck

Northern Shoveler*

Green-winged Teal

Lesser Scaup

Red-breasted Merganser*

Ruddy Duck

Wood Stork

Brown Pelican

White Ibis

Black Vulture*

Limpkin

Wilson’s Plover*

Spotted Sandpiper

Lesser Yellowlegs*

Wilson’s Snipe

Bonaparte’s Gull

Laughing Gull*

Ring-billed Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull*

Sandwich Tern*

Common Ground-dove

Mourning Dove

Monk Parakeet

Fish Crow

Tree Swallow

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Savannah Sparrow

Northern Cardinal

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Red-winged Blackbird

Boat-tailed Grackle*

Brown-headed Cowbird*

House Finch*

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36/14 vs 76/43 in 2023

Trends:

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

Species

158

+ 5 cw

153

+ 3 cw

159

+ 3 cw

149

+ 4 cw

153

+1 cw

Total Count

52,836

40,189

44,345

31,461*

33,550

Trends:

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

Species

125

140

140

145

138

143

144

+2 cw

146

+ 4 cw

150

Total Count

23,284

23,439

27,764

30,195

25,935

34,323

29,724

38,072

31,644

Trends:

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

Species

115

119

114

119

125

122

131

Total Count

25,624

35,659

23,711

23,924

22,148

28,204

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26,984

Sector Results

2023

2024

Var

Southeast

46

63

19

Bayshore

80

93

13

Braden River West

53

60

7

Central

40*

54

14

Downtown

36

45

9

Braden River East

57*

63

6

Eastside

77

58

-19

Terra Ceia

109

112

3

Northwest Bradenton

79

67

8

Palma Sola – Tidy Island

31*

46

15

Palma Sola

87

58

-29

Ellenton East

97

107

10

Ellenton West

86

92

6

Robinson Preserve

70

79

9