June 6, 2003—Chester Smith (Sundown Island Warden), Phil Glass and Marty Underwood (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), Bruce Peterjohn (USGS in Maryland), Petra Hockey, Ed Taylor and Marcy Crowe (Volunteers) gathered for the colonial waterbird breeding bird count on Sundown Island. See the Photo Gallery. Review the bird count below.

Breeding Pairs Number Brown Pelican 820 Great Blue Heron 50 Great Egret 90 Snowy Egret 126 Reddish Egret 52 Tricolored Heron 365 Little Blue Heron 45 Cattle Egret 135 Black-crowned Night-Heron 169 White Ibis 358 White-faced Ibis 18 Roseate Spoonbill 146 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 2 American Oystercatcher 2 Laughing Gull 6,500 Caspian Tern 14 Royal Tern 3,855 Sandwich Tern 1,450 Gull-billed Tern 12 Black Skimmer 185 Total 14,394