NAMC Keys: Florida City to Summerland


[ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ TAS BirdBoard ] [ FAQ ]


Posted by John Boyd on 19:48:00 09/21/08

Nancy Freedman and I birded the keys from sunrise to sunset, ending up with 1813 individuals in 69 taxa (not to mention a number of mystery warblers and a possible Barred Owl on Key Largo).

Highlights included 12 warbler species, a Blue Grosbeak at Carysfort Circle, and a V of Glossy Ibis high over the keys on their way south. As usual, Double-crested Cormorant was the most numerous bird.

 35 Brown Pelican                   9 Belted Kingfisher
468 Double-crested Cormorant        9 Red-bellied Woodpecker
  3 Magnificent Frigatebird         3 Great Crested Flycatcher
  1 Great Blue Heron                9 Eastern Kingbird
  1 Great White Heron               7 Gray Kingbird
 12 Great Egret                    41 White-eyed Vireo
  7 Snowy Egret                     2 Red-eyed Vireo
  4 Little Blue Heron               6 Blue Jay
  3 Tricolored Heron                1 American Crow
  1 Reddish Egret                  62 Barn Swallow
 17 Cattle Egret                   30 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  1 Green Heron                    32 Northern Mockingbird
 88 White Ibis                    112 European Starling
120 Glossy Ibis                     5 Common Myna
 27 Turkey Vulture                  1 Orange-crowned Warbler (early)
  9 Osprey                          7 Northern Parula
  1 Cooper's Hawk                   1 Black-throated Blue Warbler
  2 Broad-winged Hawk               1 Yellow-throated Warbler
  1 Red-tailed Hawk                 8 Prairie Warbler
  3 Merlin                          1 Black-and-white Warbler
  3 Semipalmated Plover             5 American Redstart
  2 Black-bellied Plover            1 Worm-eating Warbler
 39 Willet                          3 Ovenbird
 43 Ruddy Turnstone                12 Northern Waterthrush
  2 Sanderling                      2 Louisiana Waterthrush
 13 Least Sandpiper                 2 Common Yellowthroat
 32 Short-billed Dowitcher         72 Northern Cardinal
127 Laughing Gull                   1 Blue Grosbeak
  3 Royal Tern                      1 Bobolink
 28 Rock Pigeon                     6 Baltimore Oriole
 11 White-crowned Pigeon           28 Red-winged Blackbird
 81 Eurasian Collared-Dove         11 Common Grackle
 71 Mourning Dove                  52 Boat-tailed Grackle
  5 Common Ground-Dove              1 House Sparrow
  2 Chuck-will's-widow


Follow Ups:



Post a Followup

Name:
E-Mail:
Subject:
Comments:
Optional Link URL:
Link Title:
Optional Image URL:

[ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ TAS BirdBoard ] [ FAQ ]