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Myrtle Foester-Whitmire Unit Bi-Weekly Bird Census
Species June 24. 2005 The Myrtle Foester-Whitmire Unit is a 729-acre flat coastal prairie upland with 12 man-made impoundments and over 100 acres in croplands. It includes Foester Lake and a 5-acre Spartina grass nursery. It provides vital resting, feeding, wintering and nesting grounds for many migratory bird species, particular waterfowl and wading birds.
Grebes
Pied-billed Grebe
Bitterns, Herons and Egrets
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tri-colored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Ibises and Spoonbills
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Storks
Wood Stork
Vultures

Turkey Vulture

Ducks, Geese and Swans
Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Mottled Duck
Northern Shoveler
Caracaras and Falcons
Crested Caracara
New World Quail
Northern Bobwhite
Rails, Gallinules and Coots
Purple Gallinule
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Plovers
Killdeer
Stilts and Avocets
Black-necked Stilt
Sandpipers, Phalaropes and Allies
Greater Yellowlegs
Wading Birds at Myrtle Foester-Whitmire Unit
Gulls, Terns and Skimmers
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Forster's Tern
Pigeons and Doves
Mourning Dove
Goatsuckers
Lesser Nighthawk
Common Nighthawk
Tyrant Flycatchers
Eastern Kingbird
Swallows
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Mockingbirds and Thrashers
Northern Mockingbird
Cardinals, Grosbeaks and Buntings
Dickcissel
Blackbirds
Red-winged Blackbird
Meadowlark sp.
Grackle sp.
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