Re: Unexpected Sightings in Everglades NP

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Posted by Vince Lucas on 10:21:04 02/21/06

In Reply to: Unexpected Sightings in Everglades NP posted by Alan Bromberg

I'm sure others will reply, but for the time being, let me just say that Brown-headed Nuthatch & Eastern Bluebird were extirpated from ENP and in the early 80's (I believe), they were reintroduced. You can find out more by going here:

http://www.nps.gov/oia/topics/EVER.pdf

With regard to the Black-hooded Parakeet aka Nanday Parakeet, they are established and breeding in certain areas of Florida on both coasts and should become ABA-countable if someone takes the time to do a formal adjudicated paper on them and submits it to the proper peer review. . . .

: My wife and I are Maryland birders who visited Everglades National Park on February 19. Late in the afternoon, we stopped at the Long Pine Key campground to look for Pine Warblers. While we were there we spotted both a Brown-headed Nuthatch and an Eastern Bluebird. I have birded quite a bit in South Florida since my parents retired there and have visited the park several times, but I couldn't recall ever having seen the nuthatch there before. My curiosity got the best of me, and we stopped at the visitor's center to check some of the books in the gift shop. All of them indicated that the nuthatch shouldn't have been there, and the latest edition of the ABA guide states that both the nuthatch and the bluebird were extirpated in the park in the 1990's. Is this sighting of any significance, or have these birds been reappearing in the park recently?
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: One other sighting that I'm curious about. On the 18th, we went to Wakodahatchee, and on the way there spotted a flock of Black-hooded Parakeets along Atlantic Avenue right after we got off the turnpike. What is the status of this species in Florida? A comment in the latest issue of "Birding" indicates that the ABA's Exotic Species subcommittee is considering adding it to the checklist.

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Comments:	: I'm sure others will reply, but for the time being, let me just say that Brown-headed Nuthatch & Eastern Bluebird were extirpated from ENP and in the early 80's (I believe), they were reintroduced. You can find out more by going here: : : http://www.nps.gov/oia/topics/EVER.pdf : : With regard to the Black-hooded Parakeet aka Nanday Parakeet, they are established and breeding in certain areas of Florida on both coasts and should become ABA-countable if someone takes the time to do a formal adjudicated paper on them and submits it to the proper peer review. . . . : : : My wife and I are Maryland birders who visited Everglades National Park on February 19. Late in the afternoon, we stopped at the Long Pine Key campground to look for Pine Warblers. While we were there we spotted both a Brown-headed Nuthatch and an Eastern Bluebird. I have birded quite a bit in South Florida since my parents retired there and have visited the park several times, but I couldn't recall ever having seen the nuthatch there before. My curiosity got the best of me, and we stopped at the visitor's center to check some of the books in the gift shop. All of them indicated that the nuthatch shouldn't have been there, and the latest edition of the ABA guide states that both the nuthatch and the bluebird were extirpated in the park in the 1990's. Is this sighting of any significance, or have these birds been reappearing in the park recently? : : : : One other sighting that I'm curious about. On the 18th, we went to Wakodahatchee, and on the way there spotted a flock of Black-hooded Parakeets along Atlantic Avenue right after we got off the turnpike. What is the status of this species in Florida? A comment in the latest issue of "Birding" indicates that the ABA's Exotic Species subcommittee is considering adding it to the checklist. :
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