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Posted by Brian Rapoza on 19:09:52 01/04/07
I joined Sonny Bass, Stuart Pimm, Elsa Alvear and Mark Faherty for yesterday's Dry Tortugas National Park Christmas Bird Count. Several species new for the count were seen, including Red-footed Booby, Pomarine Jaeger, Short-eared Owl (Antillean race), Ruby-crowned Kinglet, American Pipit and Wilson's Warbler. A definite highlight was an aerial dogfight between the Short-eared Owl (which we flushed from Bush Key), a Peregrine Falcon and an American Kestrel.
Here are the species tallied:
Red-breasted Merganser
Masked Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby (seen on marker buoy beyond Loggerhead Key)
Northern Gannet
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Magnificent Frigatebird
Great Blue Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Willet
Whimbrel
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Pomarine Jaeger (off Loggerhead Key; three others seen on Tuesday and today)
Laughing Gull
Herring Gull
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Sooty Tern (heard at night)
Black Skimmer
Short-eared Owl
Belted Kingfisher
House Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (inside Fort Jefferson)
Gray Catbird
American Pipit (along beach near Garden Key dock)
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler (inside fort)
Indigo Bunting
Savannah Sparrow
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