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Posted by Bob Kelley on 19:51:29 05/27/06
In Reply to: late Short-tailed Hawk 5/12 posted by Bill Boeringer
I believe that John Ogden discovered a STH nest
at Royal Palm in ENP in the late 1960s. This was the first nest discovered in 30 years or so(since the days of the egg collectors I believe). His MS thesis at FSU may have been on his work with them. I will ask him.
They winter in my neighborhood(High Pines) about 2 miles south of the University of Miami campus, along with red-tailed hawks. Once I saw a flock of parrots chasing a black phaseshort-tailed hawk out of our neighborhood. The STH was unmistakable, but the parrots were too high to identify without binoculars.
No urban limpkins this year( on campus at least).They are eating an introduced(large) Cuban snail. I keep wondering what will show up next.
Maybe the anis will make a comeback. There have been a couple of reports from south Dade recently.
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