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Posted by John Kellam on 08:52:07 04/21/08
Hello. I just returned from a two night/three day birding/camping trip at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas (April 18-20). There are two juvenile Black Noddys present (Larry Manfredi first identified two individuals present) at the North coaling dock; both individuals favor the northernmost pilings adjacent to the northernmost large horizontal wood beam structure and are best viewed in the late afternoon. Good birding I wish I could have stayed longer. Here is my bird list from within the park - birds are in no particular order:
Laughing Gull
Double-crested Cormorant
Brown Pelican
Sooty Tern
Royal Tern
Black Noddy
Brown Noddy
Northern Gannet
Brown Booby
Masked Booby
Magnificent Frigatebird
Green Heron
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
Ruddy Turnstone
Whimbrel
Black-bellied Plover
Spotted Sandpiper
White-winged Dove
Common Nighthawk
Short-eared Owl (Caribbean race)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Broad-winged Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Merlin
American Kestrel
Barn Swallow
Northern Rough-winged swallow
Gray Kingbird
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Black-whiskered Vireo
Gray Catbird
Belted Kingfisher
Nashville Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Palm Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Northern Parula
Hooded Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
American Redstart
Wood Thrush
Common Yellowthroat
Baltimore Oriole
Indigo Bunting
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
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