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Posted by Alex Harper on 09:57:25 12/18/14
Making a stronger effort to bird my neighborhood this winter, I've began cruising the well-vegetated streets of Miami Shores by road bike. It was a a rather slow morning overall with lower numbers of passerines than usual, a Rufous Hummingbird made up for it all. An ebird list follows:
Miami Shores, Miami-Dade, US-FL
Dec 18, 2014 8:26 AM - 10:15 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.7 mile(s)
Comments: Birding was done on a bicycle. I slowly meandered streets in a residential area listening for passerines. I covered a lot of ground on a bike, but surely missed birds more easily seen while birding on foot. Bird activity dropped quickly around 9:45.
38 species (+1 other taxa)
White Ibis 27
Black Vulture 9
Turkey Vulture 24
Killdeer 8
Ring-billed Gull 2
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 3
Eurasian Collared-Dove 9
White-winged Dove 3
Mourning Dove 3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 4
Rufous Hummingbird 1 Female type bullying two Ruby-throated Hummingbird. The bird gave itself away with a series of chase calls, chip calls, and buzzy notes. The bird had rufous undertail coverts and flanks and a greenish crown. The bill appeared more straight and shorter by proportion to body length compared to nearby Ruby-throated Hummingbirds. Allen's Hummingbird has not (and probably won't be) ruled out, but Rufous is far more common in Florida and the Southeast during the winter months. The bird was in a flowering orchid tree on the northeast corner of NE 100 Street and NE 5th Avenue.
Red-bellied Woodpecker 5
American Kestrel 3
White-winged Parakeet 19
Orange-winged Parrot 2 Large plump parrot with a short square tail. Yellow forehead and cheek with light blue lores. No red or orange on underwing coverts eliminated Blue-fronted Parrot.
Chestnut-fronted Macaw 6 Rather large Psittacidae species detected my carrying raucous call. Larger than any parakeets with white cheeks, red underwings and blue primaries.
Red-masked Parakeet 3 Three large parakeets. Red faces, thick white orbital rings, red underwing coverts.
White-eyed Parakeet 6 Large parakeets with white orbital rings, not coloration on head, obvious yellow and red underwing and under primary coverts in flight. Common in this area of Miami-Dade County.
large parakeet sp. (former Aratinga sp.) 8
White-eyed Vireo 1
Yellow-throated Vireo 2
Blue-headed Vireo 4
Blue Jay 15
Fish Crow 47
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 18
Northern Mockingbird 10
Common Myna 36
Black-and-white Warbler 2
American Redstart 1
Northern Parula 7
Palm Warbler 15
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Yellow-throated Warbler 3
Prairie Warbler 2
Northern Cardinal 6
Common Grackle 6
Boat-tailed Grackle 3
Spot-breasted Oriole 2
House Sparrow 6
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