Georgia Department of Natural Resources
WATERBIRD SURVEY RESULTS
18 January 2002

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 PEL SEA SSI JEK LCI CUI Totals
American Oystercatcher 0 21 13 18 2 53 1 2 217 25 51 0 16 0 2 0 42 463
American Avocet 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Piping Plover 0 17 0 5 3 16 0 5 12 31 15 7 1 3 1 1 26 143
Wilson's Plover 0 5 0 0 0 61 0 8 0 1 8 0 0 0 4 3 4 94
Semipalmated Plover 0 795 265 539 5 1906 8 1388 151 0 99 4 0 297 0 805 1500 7762
Killdeer 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 2 3 0 11
Black-bellied Plover 9 542 174 880 42 976 141 191 75 49 156 15 118 9 2 68 709 4156
Marbled Godwit 0 0 66 9 3 140 0 0 115 0 107 0 0 1 0 0 1 442
Whimbrel 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10
Long-billed Curlew 0 0 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 8
Willet 23 37 279 768 1 386 133 115 122 0 234 8 26 24 54 36 83 2329
Greater Yellowlegs 0 8 1 0 0 14 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 25
Lesser Yellowlegs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yellowlegs Sp. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Common Snipe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Short-billed Dowitcher 0 663 0 8 0 117 0 29 0 0 184 0 0 1 0 0 750 1752
Long-billed Dowitcher 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Dowitcher Sp. 0 0 476 0 0 50 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 0 1 0 576
Spotted Sandpiper 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 6
Ruddy Turnstone 86 44 93 82 1 313 77 12 247 47 37 2 15 10 18 12 308 1404
Purple Sandpiper 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12
Red Knot 0 42 8 150 0 66 18 233 0 0 4 337 3 81 2 0 136 1080
Dunlin 10 3942 2992 5296 300 5462 753 1569 2059 676 2178 285 160 625 79 375 5255 32016
Sanderling 240 214 42 463 126 445 104 113 31 523 298 32 137 56 70 79 628 3601
Western Sandpiper 1 304 46 569 0 2249 8 475 71 56 746 10 1 8 30 24 13 4611
Least Sandpiper 0 7 1 93 0 82 0 0 0 0 143 0 0 1 23 31 0 381
Sandpiper sp. 0 0 0 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 46

OTHER WATERBIRDS

ISLANDS --> TYB LTI WAS OSS SCB SCI BKB SAP WLF EIB LSS PEL SEA SSI JEK LCI CUI Totals
Pomarine Jaeger 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Parasitic Jaeger 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jaeger sp. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Laughing Gull 63 15 137 112 96 194 10 235 5 1 521 0 0 5 562 706 3350 6012
Bonaparte's Gull 0 0 5 3 0 21 116 106 0 0 38 0 0 41 0 0 1 331
Ring-billed Gull 3224 53 615 1099 47 344 21 163 99 37 110 12 123 368 105 2900 708 10028
Herring Gull 97 135 230 38 66 179 63 82 118 18 61 0 8 8 18 281 250 1652
Gr. Black-backed Gull 4 2 0 0 1 6 3 5 3 7 12 0 1 0 1 1 2 48
Les. Black-backed Gull 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 7
Forster's Tern 16 26 92 243 0 338 8 125 23 4 407 0 48 590 72 320 202 2514
Royal Tern 9 2 1 5 0 7 1 4 4 0 19 0 13 6 281 9 55 416
Caspian Tern 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Black Skimmer 153 0 60 105 0 17 0 147 0 0 0 0 55 532 109 0 56 1234
Red-throated Loon 0 3 6 3 0 59 56 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 139
Common Loon 12 0 9 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 35
Horned Grebe 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
Brown Pelican 66 29 132 81 8 66 20 49 90 22 32 0 10 9 45 45 169 873
Northern Gannet 13 31 0 1 0 47 75 27 0 0 140 0 0 0 1 1 97 433
Double-cr. Cormorant 299 66 51 1508 4 104 35 6 2500 107 1563 0 1 2 40 0 816 7102
Little Blue Heron 0 1 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
Reddish Egret 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 4
Tricolored Heron 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 10
Snowy Egret 0 8 5 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 40 0 0 0 0 0 22 84
Great Egret 0 3 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 2 15
Great Blue Heron 0 7 1 1 0 5 0 0 2 0 6 0 0 0 2 0 0 24
Wood Stork 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
White Ibis 20 75 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 77 176
Ruddy Duck 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Redhead 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 4
Ring-necked Duck 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greater Scaup 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
Scaup Sp. 0 0 85 82 0 505 0 500 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 188 0 1365
Lesser Scaup 0 0 4 0 0 144 25 0