1999 Space Coast Flyway Festival
Birding Competition Checklist

Brevard County, Florida
Titusville Area Chamber of Commerce: 321-267-3036

Notes

This birding checklist includes 261+ species for which records and sight reports indicate at least some potential for occurrence in Brevard County in mid-November.

®   Indicates documention is required for the bird species to be included in your total score.
Undocumented ® birds will not be accepted.

The number appearing in the first column after many of the bird species names is the number of teams which reported the species in the 1997 Flyway Festival – of twelve teams which reported totals of 57 or more species. The 1997 winning team had 159 species accepted by the judges.

The number appearing in the second column after many of the bird species names is the number of teams which reported the species in the 1998 Flyway Festival – of thirteen teams which reported totals of 75 or more species. The 1998 winning team had 163 species accepted by the judges

The number appearing in the third column after many of the bird species names is the number of teams which reported the species in the 1999 Flyway Festival – of eleven teams which reported totals of 61 or more species. The 1999 winning team had 165 species accepted by the judges. A total of 197 species were spotted by all of the teams.

Estimated occurrence status letters (last column to right) are:
C   Common   (74 species) U   Uncommon   (46 species) O   Occasional   (46 species ®)	R   Rare   (57 species ®) V   Very Rare   (38 species ®) †   Indicates offshore occurrence

'97 '98 '99               ® Red-throated Loon V Common Loon 3 4 4 O Pied-billed Grebe 12 13 11 C Horned Grebe 4 3 3 O Eared Grebe 1 V ® Cory's Shearwater 1 †O Northern Gannet 10 8 8 U American White Pelican 11 11 4 C Brown Pelican 12 13 11 C Double-crested Cormorant 12 11 11 C Anhinga 12 13 11 C Magnificent Frigatebird 2 2 1 R American Bittern 3 4 6 O Least Bittern 2 1 3 O		'97 '98 '99   Great Blue Heron 12 13 11 C             Great Egret 12 13 11 C Snowy Egret 12 13 11 C Little Blue Heron 12 13 11 C Tricolored Heron 12 13 11 C Reddish Egret 12 12 11 U Cattle Egret 11 13 10 C Green Heron 12 13 11 U Black-crowned Night-Heron 7 9 8 U Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 4 6 8 O   Night-Heron Species White Ibis 12 13 11 C Glossy Ibis 12 13 11 U
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1998 Space Coast Flyway Festival - Birding Competition Checklist
'97 '98 '99   Roseate Spoonbill 11 13 11 O Wood Stork 12 13 11 C             Fulvous Whistling-Duck R ® Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 1 V ® Greater White-fronted Goose V Snow Goose 10 3 3 O ® Brant V ® Canada Goose 1 V Wood Duck 6 5 3 U Green-winged Teal 4 7 9 O ® American Black Duck 1 R Mottled Duck 9 9 9 C Mallard 8 10 6 O Northern Pintail 11 13 11 C Blue-winged Teal 12 13 11 C Northern Shoveler 12 11 11 C Gadwall 5 2 6 U ® Eurasian Wigeon R American Wigeon 11 9 9 C Canvasback 1 2 3 O Redhead 5 1 3 U Ring-necked Duck 8 6 5 U Greater Scaup 1 2 1 O Lesser Scaup 10 7 8 C   Scaup Species ® Common Eider 2 V Oldsquaw R		'97 '98 '99   Black Scoter 1 6 R ® Surf Scoter 1 V ® White-winged Scoter 1 V   Scoter Species             Common Goldeneye R Bufflehead 1 4 O Hooded Merganser 11 4 9 C Red-breasted Merganser 4 2 7 U Ruddy Duck 7 5 7 U Black Vulture 12 13 11 C Turkey Vulture 12 13 11 C Osprey 12 13 11 C ® Snail Kite 2 1 2 V Bald Eagle 12 11 11 U Northern Harrier 11 11 10 U Sharp-shinned Hawk 6 4 7 U Cooper's Hawk 6 7 8 O   Accipiter Species Red-shouldered Hawk 12 12 11 C ® Broad-winged Hawk 1 2 R ® Swainson's Hawk V Red-tailed Hawk 11 11 11 C Crested Caracara 5 2 7 O American Kestrel 12 12 10 C Merlin 5 5 5 O Peregrine Falcon 1 4 4 R Wild Turkey 1 2 3 R Northern Bobwhite 4 5 5 U
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1998 Space Coast Flyway Festival - Birding Competition Checklist
'97 '98 '99   Black Rail R Clapper Rail 2 4 9 U King Rail 4 5 6 U Virginia Rail 2 2 5 O Sora 3 5 9 U Purple Gallinule 1 R             Common Moorhen 12 13 11 C American Coot 12 13 11 C Limpkin 2 5 5 O Sandhill Crane 11 10 11 U Black-bellied Plover 9 9 11 C ® American Golden-Plover V Wilson's Plover R Semipalmated Plover 10 10 10 C Piping Plover 1 R Killdeer 11 12 11 C American Oystercatcher 2 1 O Black-necked Stilt R American Avocet 9 8 11 U Greater Yellowlegs 11 12 10 C Lesser Yellowlegs 11 12 10 C Solitary Sandpiper 1 R Willet 11 12 11 C Spotted Sandpiper 2 6 3 U Whimbrel 1 R Marbled Godwit 5 7 11 O Ruddy Turnstone 12 11 11 C Red Knot 5 3 6 U Sanderling 10 11 11 C		'97 '98 '99   ® Semipalmated Sandpiper 3 V Western Sandpiper 7 10 10 C Least Sandpiper 11 10 9 C ® White-rumped Sandpiper V   "Peep" Sandpiper Species Pectoral Sandpiper R ® Purple Sandpiper V             Dunlin 11 11 11 C Stilt Sandpiper 1 O Short-billed Dowitcher 9 9 10 C ® Long-billed Dowitcher 1 4 R   Dowitcher Species [2] [2] Common Snipe 6 9 8 U American Woodcock R ® Wilson's Phalarope V ® Red-necked Phalarope †R ® Red Phalarope †O ® Pomarine Jaeger 1 4 †O ® Parasitic Jaeger 4 †R ® Long-tailed Jaeger †V   Jaeger Species [1] [2] Laughing Gull 12 13 11 C Franklin's Gull 1 O Bonaparte's Gull 2 3 2 O Ring-billed Gull 12 12 11 C Herring Gull 8 8 11 C ® Lesser Black-backed Gull 2 4 4 R Great Black-backed Gull 6 10 9 U
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1998 Space Coast Flyway Festival - Birding Competition Checklist
'97 '98 '99   Gull-billed Tern 2 4 R Caspian Tern 12 11 11 U Royal Tern 11 12 11 C Sandwich Tern 4 8 10 O Common Tern 3 3 4 O Forster's Tern 12 9 8 C Least Tern C ® Bridled Tern †V Black Skimmer 9 8 10 C Rock Dove 12 12 11 C Eurasian Collared-Dove 10 12 10 C             ® White-winged Dove V Mourning Dove 12 13 11 C Common Ground-Dove 7 9 7 U ® Monk Parakeet 1 1 3 O ® Black-billed Cuckoo V ® Yellow-billed Cuckoo V ® Smooth-billed Ani V Barn Owl 1 3 1 R Eastern Screech-Owl 7 6 8 U Great Horned Owl 6 8 5 U Burrowing Owl 1 R Barred Owl 4 5 5 U Short-eared Owl R Common Nighthawk R Chuck-will's-widow R Whip-poor-will 2 3 4 O   Goatsucker Species 1		'97 '98 '99     Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 1 R   Hummingbird Species Belted Kingfisher 12 13 11 C Red-headed Woodpecker 1 1 R Red-bellied Woodpecker 12 12 10 C Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 5 9 5 U Downy Woodpecker 9 10 9 C Hairy Woodpecker 1 2 5 R Red-cockaded Woodpecker 2 1 R Northern Flicker 11 8 9 U Pileated Woodpecker 7 10 9 U ® Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 V             ® Acadian Flycatcher V   Empidonax Flyc. Species Eastern Phoebe 11 13 10 U Vermilion Flycatcher 1 V Great Crested Flycatcher 1 1 R Western Kingbird 1 1 R Eastern Kingbird 1 1 R ® Purple Martin 1 V Tree Swallow 12 12 10 C N. Rough-winged Swallow 1 2 R Barn Swallow 7 2 6 U Blue Jay 12 13 11 C Florida Scrub-Jay 11 10 8 U American Crow 5 7 7 O Fish Crow 12 12 11 C Carolina Chicadee 1 3 4 R Tufted Titmouse 7 6 7 O
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1998 Space Coast Flyway Festival - Birding Competition Checklist
'97 '98 '99   Brown-headed Nuthatch 3 5 5 O Carolina Wren 9 10 9 C House Wren 10 7 8 C Sedge Wren 5 5 6 U Marsh Wren 5 3 7 U Ruby-crowned Kinglet 9 6 9 U Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 9 9 10 U Eastern Bluebird 5 3 1 O Swainson's Thrush R Hermit Thrush 2 3 2 O American Robin 11 10 10 C Gray Catbird 11 10 10 C Northern Mockingbird 12 13 11 C Brown Thrasher 5 5 3 O             American Pipit 2 3 R Cedar Waxwing 2 1 R Loggerhead Shrike 12 12 10 C European Starling 12 12 11 C White-eyed Vireo 6 8 9 U Blue-headed Vireo 4 5 4 O Yellow-throated Vireo 1 1 R Red-eyed Vireo R ® Tennessee Warbler V Orange-crowned Warbler 2 5 4 O Northern Parula 1 1 R ® Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 V Yellow-rumped Warbler 10 11 10 C Yellow-throated Warbler 1 2 3 O ® Magnolia Warbler V		'97 '98 '99   Cape May Warbler R Black-throated Blue Warbler R Black-throated Green Warbler R ® Blackburnian Warbler V Pine Warbler 8 7 10 U Prairie Warbler 4 5 3 U Palm Warbler 12 11 10 C ® Bay-breasted Warbler V Black-and-white Warbler 5 3 7 U American Redstart R Ovenbird 2 2 5 O Northern Waterthrush 3 1 5 O Common Yellowthroat 10 9 8 C Yellow-breasted Chat R ® Summer Tanager V             Northern Cardinal 12 12 10 C ® Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 V ® Blue Grosbeak 1 R Indigo Bunting 1 4 2 O Painted Bunting 3 5 4 O ® Dickcissel V Eastern Towhee 8 7 9 C Bachman's Sparrow 5 2 4 O Chipping Sparrow 7 5 8 U
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1998 Space Coast Flyway Festival - Birding Competition Checklist
'97 '98 '99               ® Clay-colored Sparrow 1 1 V Field Sparrow 1 2 R Vesper Sparrow 2 1 4 O Savannah Sparrow 10 9 9 C Grasshopper Sparrow 2 3 4 O ® Henslow's Sparrow V Saltmarsh Sharp-tld. Sparrow O   Sharp-tailed Sparrow Species Seaside Sparrow R Song Sparrow 4 5 5 O ® Lincoln's Sparrow 1 V Swamp Sparrow 6 8 6 U White-throated Sparrow R White-crowned Sparrow 1 3 2 R ® ® ® ® ® ®		'97 '98 '99   ® Bobolink 1 V Red-winged Blackbird 11 13 11 C Eastern Meadowlark 11 8 10 C ® Rusty Blackbird 1 1 R ® Brewer's Blackbird V Boat-tailed Grackle 12 13 11 C Common Grackle 12 12 11 C             ® Shiny Cowbird V Brown-headed Cowbird 5 8 6 C Baltimore Oriole 2 1 R ® Bullock's Oriole V American Goldfinch 5 3 1 U House Sparrow 9 10 11 C             ®           ® ® ® ® ® ®

Team Name: ____________________________________ Category (mark one) ___ Open,   ___ Beginner,   ___ Youth Total Species Reported: ________ Number of Doc. Forms Attached: ________		For Judges Use: Total Species Accepted: ________ No. of Doc. Forms Attached: ________ TOTAL SCORE: __________
Judges Notes:

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