SHOREBIRD AND LARID USE OF MUDFLATS AT LAKE OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA, DURING DROUGHT CONDITIONS
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Gray, Paul N, Bill Pranty, Gregory R Schrott, and James W Tucker. SHOREBIRD AND LARID USE OF MUDFLATS AT LAKE OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA, DURING DROUGHT CONDITIONS. Florida Field Naturalist 37, no. 2 (2009): 3344.
Abstract:
Few data have been published on the use of mudflats in Lake Okeechobee, Florida by shorebirds, larids, or other birds. In five airboat surveys along the northwestern shore of the lake during drought conditions in mid-2007, we observed 24 species of shorebirds and 11 species of larids, with a maximum one-day total of more than 20,000 individuals. Among these observations were several that represented first reports for Lake Okeechobee and/or Okeechobee County.