We had a large turnout of people and birds for the field trip to Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge where 73 species of birds were seen plus American Alligators, Nine  Banded Armadillo and fresh road kill "Wild Boar."

Our list of bird species seen is as follows:  

Common Loon

Pied billed Grebe

 Horned Grebe

American White Pelican

Brown Pelican

Double -crested Cormorant

Anhinga

American Bittern

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Snowy Egret

Little Blue Heron

Tricolored Heron

Cattle Egret

Green Heron

White Ibis

Glossy Ibis

Roseate Spoonbill

Black Vulture

Turkey Vulture

Wood Stork

Black-bellied Whistling Duck

Snow Goose

American Wigeon

Blue -winged Teal

Northern Shoveler

Northern Pintail

Ring-necked Duck

Lesser Scaup

Hooded Merganser

Red-breasted Merganser

Ruddy Duck

Osprey

Bald Eagle

Northern Harrier

Red-shouldered Hawk

Northern Crested Caracara

American Kestrel

Common Moorhen

American Coot

Limpkin

Killdeer

American Avocet

Greater Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs

Western or Semi-palmated Sandpiper

Dunlin

Short-billed Dowitcher

Laughing Gull

Bonaparte's Gull

 Ring-billed Gull

Herring Gull

Great Black-backed Gull

Caspian Tern

Royal Tern

Black Skimmer

Rock Dove

Eurasian Collared Dove

Common Ground Dove

Belted Kingfisher

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Pileated Woodpecker

Flycatcher (Genus Empidonax)

Eastern Phoebe

Fish Crow

Tree Swallow

Northern Mockingbird

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Palm Warbler

Red-winged Blackbird

Common Grackle

Boat-tailed Grackle

Brownheaded Cowbird.

Plus

American Alligators, Nine

Banded Armadillo and fresh road kill "Wild Boar."