January 2008 Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival     Nikon
and The Brevard Nature Alliance present the
Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival
Brevard Community College, Titusville Campus
1311 North U.S. Highway 1, Titusville

January 23 - 28, 2008 -- Titusville, Florida
A celebration of birds and wildlife.
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Bird Species seen on Pelagic Trip Jan. 28, 2008
Boat left out of Ponce de Leon Inlet, Volusia County, Florida
Compiled by Michael Brothers


Species Seen Offshore

Common Loon: 50
Audubon's Shearwater: 3
Northern Gannet: 300+
Red Phalarope: 680
Laughing Gull:
Bonaparte's Gull: 400
Ring-billed Gull:
Herring Gull:
Iceland Gull: 1
Lesser Black-backed Gull: 1
Great Black-backed Gull: 4
Sabine's Gull: 1
Forster's Tern: 50
Royal Tern: 100+
Pomarine Jaeger: 6
Parasitic Jaeger: 1


Pelagic trip 1/2008

Species Seen Inshore or Near Shore

Brown Pelican: 40
Double-crested Cormorant: 20
Great Cormorant: 1
Great Blue Heron: 1
Great Egret: 3
Snowy Egret: 5
Tricolored Heron: 1
White Ibis: 15
Osprey: 3
Bald Eagle: 2
American Kestrel: 1
Peregrine Falcon: 1
Black-bellied Plover: 9
Piping Plover: 1
Greater Yellowlegs: 3
Willet: 3
Ruddy Turnstone: 6
Red Knot: 10
Sanderling: 15
Purple Sandpiper: 1
Dunlin: 10
Sandwich Tern: 1
Black Skimmer: 100

Additional Species

Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Fish Crow
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Palm Warbler
Red-winged Blackbird
Boat-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird

Other Animals Seen on Trip

Mammals
Bottle-nose Dolphin
Spotted Dolphin
Reptiles
Leatherback Turtle
Loggerhead Turtle
Green Turtle
Fish
Hammerhead Shark
Sailfish
Ocean Sunfish
Remora
Cobia





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