Fort Zachary Taylor SP (10/17) and the Florida Keys Hawkwatch


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Posted by Alex Harper on 18:28:26 10/18/14

A day late, but here is an ebird list from Fort Zachary State Park in Key West:

Fort Zachary Taylor Historic SP, Monroe, US-FL
Oct 17, 2014 8:00 AM - 2:15 PM
Protocol: Traveling
5.0 mile(s)
55 species (+2 other taxa)

Double-crested Cormorant 2
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 1
Tricolored Heron 1
Green Heron 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
Broad-winged Hawk 2
Willet 1
Laughing Gull 12
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 12
Common Ground-Dove 2
Mourning Dove 17
Chimney Swift 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
American Kestrel 2
Peregrine Falcon 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 4
Empidonax sp. 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 11
White-eyed Vireo 3
Philadelphia Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 40
Barn Swallow 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 24
Swainson's Thrush 1
Wood Thrush 4
Gray Catbird 52
Northern Mockingbird 6
Ovenbird 11
Worm-eating Warbler 4
Black-and-white Warbler 2
Tennessee Warbler 4
Common Yellowthroat 7
American Redstart 5
Cape May Warbler 1
Northern Parula 7
Magnolia Warbler 1
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 2
Palm Warbler 215
Pine Warbler 2
Yellow-throated Warbler 2
Prairie Warbler 9
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Summer Tanager 1
Scarlet Tanager 1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1
Blue Grosbeak 2
Indigo Bunting 17
Painted Bunting 2
Bobolink 1
Red-winged Blackbird 5
Baltimore Oriole 1
passerine sp. 19

The Florida Keys Hawkwatch at Curry Hammock had a respectable Peregrine Falcon day with 112 detected at the site. This brings us to 3910 Peregrine Falcons for the season - exactly 100 shy of the single-season record of 4,010. With just over two weeks of counting, we are expecting to break this world record count any day now. Yesterday brought the site's first White-tailed Kite (photographed), and today we had several Swainson's (7) and Short-tailed Hawks (6), but the biggest surprise was a dark morph Broad-winged Hawk. A Scissor-tailed Flycatcher and twelve warbler species were detected from the hawkwatching platform, as well.

Alex Harper
Long Key



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