Birdathon 1998
Total consolidated bird species list


List of 167 avian species seen during a 24 hour period on April 19. 
Areas "birded" include: Local Tallahassee and Monticello, San Luis Mission Park, Springhill Road Spray Fields, Wakulla Springs State Park, St Marks NWR, Mashes Sands, Bald Point, Aligator Point, Carrabelle, and St George Island. 

Sunday April 19 was dark and gloomy, and rained on and off most of the day. Not an ideal day to be outdoors, unless you're an avid birder. Your intrepid bird-a-thon group braved the elements to go out and about the local area, and spotted a total of 167 different avian species. Here's the list: (The most unusual birds spotted are probably the Red-throated Loon, the Black-whiskered Vireo, and the Painted Bunting):

 

Apalachee Audubon Society, Inc. Spring 1998 Bird-a-thon List (167 species):

Common Loon
Sanderling
Hermit Thrush Red-throated Loon
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Wood Thrush Pied-billed Grebe
Least Sandpiper
American Robin Brown Pelican
Dunlin
Gray Catbird Double-crested Cormorant
Short-billed Dowitcher
Northern Mockingbird Anhinga
Common Snipe
Brown Thrasher Great Blue Heron
Laughing Gull
Loggerhead Shrike Great Egret
Ring-billed Gull
European Starling Snowy Egret
Herring Gull
White-eyed Vireo Little Blue Heron
Caspian Tern
Solitary Vireo (Blue-headed Vireo) Tricolored Heron
Royal Tern
Yellow-throated Vireo Cattle Egret
Sandwich Tern
Red-eyed Vireo Green Heron
Common Tern
Black-whiskered Vireo Black-crowned nigh- heron
Foster's Tern
Northern Parula Yellow-crowned nigh- heron
Least Tern
Yellow Warbler White Ibis
Black Skimmer
Chestnut-sided Warbler Glossy Ibis
Rock Dove
Cape May Warbler Wood Stork
Eurasian Collard-Dove
Black-throated Blue Warbler Black vulture
Mourning Dove
Yellow-rumped Warbler Turkey Vulture
Common Ground-Dove
Black-throated Green Warbler Canada Goose
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-throated Warbler Muscovy Duck
Eastern Screech-Owl
Pine Warbler Wood Duck
Great Horned Owl
Prairie Warbler Mottled Duck
Barred Owl
Palm Warbler Mallard
Common Nighthawk
Blackpoll Warbler Blue-winged Teal
Chuck-will's-widow
Black and White Warbler Red-breasted Merganser
Chimney Swift
American Redstart Osprey
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Prothonotary Warbler Mississippi Kite
Belted Kingfisher
Louisiana Warbler Bald Eagle
Red-headed Woodpecker
Kentucky Warbler Northern Harrier
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Common Yellowthroat Red-Shouldered Hawk
Downy Woodpecker
Hooded Warbler Red-tailed Hawk
Northern Flicker
Summer Tanager American Kestrel
Piliated Woodpecker
Scarlet Tanager Merlin
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Northern Cardinal Wild Turkey
Acadian Flycatcher
Rose-breasted Grosbeak Northern Bobwhite
Great Crested Flycatcher
Blue Grosbeak Clapper Rail
Eastern Kingbird
Indigo Bunting Sora
Purple Martin
Painted Bunting Common Moorehen
Tree Swallow
Rufous-sided Towhee American Coot
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bachman's Sparrow Limpkin
Bank Swallow
Savanah Sparrow Black-bellied Plover
Barn Swallow
Seaside Sparrow Snowy Plover
Blue Jay
Song Sparrow Wilson's Plover
American Crow
Swamp Sparrow Semipalmated Plover
Fish Crow
White-throated Sparrow Killdeer
Carolina Chickadee
Red-winged Blackbird American Oystercatcher
Tufted Titmouse
Boat-tailed Grackle Black-necked Stilt
White-breasted Nuthatch
Common Grackle Greater Yellowlegs
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Brown-headed Cowbird Lesser Yellowlegs
Carolina Wren
Orchard Oriole Willet
House Wren
Northern Oriole Spotted Sandpiper
Marsh Wren
House Finch Whimbrel
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Goldfinch Ruddy Turnstone
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
House Sparrow Red Knot
Eastern Bluebird