GOS Winter Meeting Tybee Island, Georgia
January 12-15, 2018
Keynote Speaker – Dr. Peter Marra, director of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
Friday Speaker – Cody Cox, Costa Rica Forest Fragmentation
Bird List Compiled by Ellen Miller
This past January, over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend, the GOS held its winter meeting on Tybee Island. Cody Cox, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Georgia, and a GOS Bill Terrell Graduate Research Grant recipient, spoke to us about his research in Costa Rica. Cody has been mist-netting, banding birds, and measuring habit variables across a range of geographic gradients, while considering the potential impact forest fragmentation might have on breeding and migratory birds in his study area. He hopes to understand how birds are responding to fragmentation in order to inform future conservation planning so that the Costa Rican government can create preserves with scarce conservation colones (Costa Rican currency) that will keep rare birds on the landscape and keep common birds common. We wish Cody the best of luck as he continues his research. Our keynote speaker was Dr. Peter Marra, director of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, who spoke to us about his latest book, Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer. A myriad of studies have documented the shocking number of birds and other native wildlife that feral cats kill every day, and Peter’s summary drove that point home.
Bird List:
Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Black Scoter
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Wild Turkey
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Wood Stork
Northern Gannett
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Clapper Rail
King Rail
Virginia Rail
Sora
Common Gallinule
American Coot
American Avocet
American Oystercatcher
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Lesser Yellowlegs
Ruddy Turnstone
Stilt Sandpiper
Sanderling
Dunlin
Least Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson’s Snipe
Bonaparte’s Gull
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Forster’s Tern
Royal Tern
Black Skimmer
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Eastern Whip-poor-will
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Eastern Phoebe
Western Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
House Wren
Winter Wren
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Northern Waterthrush
Black-and-white Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Bachman’s Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Henslow’s Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow