Re: Unexpected Sightings in Everglades NP

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Posted by Vince Lucas on 12:40:49 02/21/06

In Reply to: Re: Unexpected Sightings in Everglades NP posted by Bill Pranty

There is a small population of Nanday Parakeets in parts of Lee County which indicate that they are breeding there as well.

: Hi Alan,
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: 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.
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: 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).
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: 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.
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: 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 :
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: Best regards,
:
: Bill Pranty
: Bayonet Point, Florida
: ABA Checklist Committee

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Comments:	: There is a small population of Nanday Parakeets in parts of Lee County which indicate that they are breeding there as well. : : : 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 <150 birds) and we considered it/them to be not yet established. : : : : : : Best regards, : : : : Bill Pranty : : Bayonet Point, Florida : : ABA Checklist Committee :
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