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Posted by Toe on 10:07:06 07/01/10
This was weally a wonderful way of wecovering what would have weally been a slow pewiod of the year. My compliments and thanks go out to Becky Enneis of Alachua County for coming up with this idea. BTW, one of the rules is that each bird must be seen; heard-only birds don't count. This made chasing some of the more cryptic species all the more difficult. I'm proud to say all the birds on our list were seen. In our efforts, we literally birded the entire county, from one extreme end to the other. We got some species within a few yards of the boundaries with Collier, Monroe, and Broward County, and on our pelagic trip came within 5 miles of Bahamian waters. We can safely say we birded the ENTIRE county in June.
I'd also like to give thanks to our official team for their brilliant efforts: Bill Boeringer, Brian Rapoza, Angel & Mariel Abreu, and Trey Mitchell. Brian gets the extreme birder award for his exploits yesterday where he almost didn't make it back after finding Wild Turkey and chasing Red-eyed Vireo in an extreme remote corner of the county. I'll let him give a detailed account of his ordeal. I'd also like to thank the unofficial members of the team (sorry, I forget all the names) for sightings that contributed to our tally.
Most importantly, I'd like to thank the following stellar birders for their behind-the-scenes efforts in getting the really tough birds:
Alberto Batross
Samuel Derling
Ian Godwit Hudson
Alter Eagle
Marbled Marielet
Way to go guys!
Now, the moment you've all been waiting for. Our final tally, as best I can recount, is
139 countable species
14 non-countable exotics
Here is our list:
Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Muscovy Duck
Wood Duck
Mallard
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Wild Turkey
Northern Bobwhite
Pied-billed Grebe
Audubon's Shearwater
Wilson's Storm Petrel
Red-footed Booby
Brown Booby
Northern Gannet
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
Magnificent Frigatebird
Least Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Reddish Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Wood Stork
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Swallow-tailed Kite
White-tailed Kite
Snail Kite
Bald Eagle
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Short-tailed Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
King Rail
Purple Gallinule
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Limpkin
Sandhill Crane
Black-bellied Plover
Wilson's Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Least Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Least Tern
Bridled Tern
Sooty Tern
Black Tern
Black Skimmer
Rock Dove
White-crowned Pigeon
Eurasian Collard Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Common Ground Dove
Monk Parakeet
White-winged Parakeet
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Mangrove Cuckoo
Short-eared Owl (Caribbean Race)
Barn Owl
Eastern Screech Owl
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Barred Owl
Common Nighthawk
Chuck-will's-widow
Chimney Swift
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Gray Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Black-whiskered Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Purple Martin
Cave Swallow
Barn Swallow
Tufted Titmouse
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Red-whiskered Bulbul
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Common Myna
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Eastern Towhee
Seaside Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Shiny Cowbird
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Spot-breasted Oriole
House Sparrow
Exotics:
Egyptian Goose
Blue-and-yellow Macaw
Chestnut-fronted Macaw
Lilac-crowned Parrot
Red-crowned Parrot
Mitred Parakeet
Red-masked Parakeet
Hispaniolan Parakeet
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
Cockatiel
Budgerigar
Hill Myna
Peafowl
Nutmeg Manikin
If anyone saw something not on the list please let me know. Now that June is over, we have a little time to recoup before serious birding begins again. I say we have 2 weeks,since right around July 15th we are back in business -- Shorebird Migration! Dust off those scopes, grab some water, and hit those sod farms folks!
Cheers!
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