Posted by Brennan Mulrooney on October 02, 2003 at 13:47:42:
In Reply to: Re: NAMC Results: Miami-Dade County posted by John Boyd on October 01, 2003 at 13:46:50:
Yes, I understand that it's not unheard of for 1 or 2 LOWA's to winter in S. FL, but that's compared to many more (100's?) of NOWA's that do, and it was the peak of their migration. I guess I'm biased, spending most of my time in the keys. NOWA's do seem to prefer mangrove habitat that's much more abundant down here and was probably not covered as thoroughly on the mainland. I probably saw over 50 NOWA's wintering in FL Bay last year and I've seen multiple NOWA's in just about every day of birding this fall, so I tend to think of them as the default waterthrush, but maybe that's not true on the mainland. I assume it was just a matter of the NOWA's prefering a habitat that the Dade count didn't really cover or doesn't contain much of. Does that sound plausible?
Brennan Mulrooney
Cujoe Key, FL
: An La. Waterthrush also wintered at Corkscrew in 2001-02.