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Posted by Bill Pranty on 10:59:52 02/21/06
In Reply to: Unexpected Sightings in Everglades NP posted by Alan Bromberg
Hi Alan,
Unless you have the 1996 edition of my bird-finding guide (which is not the latest edition), you are mistaken about what I wrote. On page 241 of my book (the 2005 edition), I write "... in recent years, turkeys, nuthatches, and bluebirds have been re-stablished on Long Pine Key." (If you do have my new edition, you might have stopped reading one sentence too quckly!). Again in the Eastern Bluebird account on page 319, I reterated their recent reestablishment at ENP.
As far as the Black-hooded Parakeet, it was ratified by the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee as an established exotic in 2004, based on a paper that I and a colleague had published in _Florida Field Naturalist_ in 2004, entitled "Population increase and range expansion of the Black-hooded Parakeet (Nandayus nenday) in Florida" (32: 12-137).
The ABA Checklist Committee will soon be voting on whether or not to add the parakeet to the ABA Checklist, based on this paper and the FOSRC's ratification.
My paper recommended that Black-hooded populations be considered established only along the central Gulf coast (Pasco, Pinellas, Manatee, and Sarasota counties), where there is a very large, increasing, and expanding population (nearly 750 birds by 2003; 84% of Florida's population). The population(s) along the southeastern Atlantic coast is/are much smaller (probaby
Best regards,
Bill Pranty
Bayonet Point, Florida
ABA Checklist Committee
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