Georgia Department of Natural Resources
 WATERBIRD SURVEY RESULTS
22 January 1999

ISLAND ABBREVIATIONS (click here to view map in new window)
TYB - Tybee               BKB - Blackbeard             SEA - Sea
LTI - Little Tybee        SAP - Sapelo                 SSI - St. Simons Island
WAS - Wassaw              WLF - Wolf                   JEK - Jekyll
OSS - Ossabaw             EIB - Little Egg Island Bar  LCI - Little Cumberland
SCB - St. Catherines Bar  LSS - Little St. Simons      CUI - Cumberland
SCI - St. Catherines Is.  PEL - Pelican Spit

SHOREBIRDS
ISLANDS --> TYB LTI WAS OSS SCB SCI BKB SAP WLF EIB LSS SEA SSI JEK LCI CUI Totals
American Oystercatcher 28 53 1 9 6 4 12 5 70 11 114 2 2 0 0 48 365
American Avocet 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 0 0 0 7 0 0 33
Piping Plover 4 5 4 6 7 16 0 4 3 36 37 0 0 2 1 26 151
Wilson's Plover 0 0 0 14 12 2 0 0 3 1 10 0 0 0 0 2 44
Semipalmated Plover 0 280 712 804 780 525 46 365 16 45 69 42 52 0 268 3012 7016
Killdeer 0 0 0 16 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 5 0 4 8 4 40
Black-bellied Plover 8 90 123 71 120 86 114 55 14 62 71 8 14 12 19 391 1258
Marbled Godwit 0 2 0 13 131 78 1 0 19 1 46 0 0 0 0 0 291
Whimbrel 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5
Long-billed Curlew 0 0 0 4 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8
Willet 29 17 136 42 11 98 46 78 10 10 49 14 4 29 18 40 631
Greater Yellowlegs 0 0 1 5 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 4 13
Lesser Yellowlegs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Yellowlegs Sp. 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
Common Snipe 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 0 46 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 146
Long-billed Dowitcher 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Dowitcher Sp. 1 0 287 87 166 39 56 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 0 30 683
Spotted Sandpiper 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Ruddy Turnstone 389 21 74 53 17 183 21 0 72 11 27 22 0 21 9 185 1105
Purple Sandpiper 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13
Red Knot 24 0 3 1 0 4 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 128 175
Dunlin 14 1120 2700 2771 1126 2199 1554 807 151 1200 1040 132 40 92 23 3022 17991
Sanderling 405 34 257 492 136 234 228 86 18 655 63 60 20 52 46 911 3697
Western Sandpiper 21 21 200 1660 2100 756 0 2 18 400 145 0 0 2 7 200 5532
Least Sandpiper 0 10 32 1 12 52 38 4 1 88 1 0 5 40 3 15 302

OTHER WATERBIRDS
ISLANDS --> TYB LTI WAS OSS SCB SCI BKB SAP WLF EIB LSS SEA SSI JEK LCI CUI Totals
Pomarine Jaeger 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2
Parasitic Jaeger 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Laughing Gull 8 4 206 640 1 4 112 18 0 17 0 56 30 950 21 2002 4069
Bonaparte's Gull 3 37 36 0 0 0 0 15 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 38 132
Ring-billed Gull 1715 21 147 430 15 95 141 278 92 34 40 152 185 720 28 873 4966
Herring Gull 177 360 368 198 7 53 88 148 29 21 31 7 30 90 3 767 2377
Gr. Black-backed Gull 0 1 4 9 0 2 3 4 0 22 9 3 0 1 0 13 71
Les. Black-backed Gull 0 1 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 9
Forster's Tern 24 72 256 288 33 333 131 77 6 37 45 39 189 490 37 928 2985
Royal Tern 38 3 5 107 0 32 4 1 8 12 35 43 10 146 4 147 595
Caspian Tern 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 8
Black Skimmer 110 0 130 55 0 0 11 47 0 0 0 360 8 277 26 249 1273
Red-throated Loon 0 0 93 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 5 121
Common Loon 1 0 7 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 16
Horned Grebe 0 0 107 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 110
Brown Pelican 47 25 89 75 65 31 26 29 61 94 69 40 29 139 22 196 1037
Northern Gannet 124 80 270 99 2 103 2 56 0 3 0 38 0 26 0 431 1234
Double-cr. Cormorant 411 15 90 80 87 122 29 1137 300 600 98 30 0 70 11 345 3425
Little Blue Heron 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
Reddish Egret 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Tricolored Heron 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 nc 0 1 0 0 1 4
Snowy Egret 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 0 2 nc 2 0 0 0 13 23
Great Egret 0 5 1 2 0 2 9 0 0 1 nc 1 2 1 0 1 25
Great Blue Heron 0 1 4 3 1 8 4 1 0 0 nc 1 2 0 0 4 29
Wood Stork 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 nc 0 1 0 0 0 2
White Ibis 0 1 0 0 0 36 0 19 39 1 nc 0 12 0 0 8 116
Ruddy Duck 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Redhead 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Ring-necked Duck 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Greater Scaup 3 0 0 39 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 43
Scaup Sp. 0 170 1484 725 0 150 2816 9 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5369
Lesser Scaup 0 0 1 956 0 0 0 0 0 1500 35 2 800 663 0 328 4285
Black Scoter 0 0 8 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 31 0 30 74
Scoter Sp. 0 0 0 0 0 150 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 60 0 0 210
White-winged Scoter 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2
Surf Scoter 0 0 0 3 0