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Posted by Rafael A. Galvez on 10:26:01 04/30/11
John Ogden and I led a South Florida trip for an excellent group of folks from Audubon Pennsylvania from April 25 to 29 in what turned out to be a great week of birding!
We covered select portions of Everglades National Park, South Dade, the Keys and Dry Tortugas. It was a wonderful time spent with the dynamic group of 18 nature enthusiasts who joined John and I in wild bird chases, swamp mucking, ornithology discussions and presentations, celebration of J.J. Audubon's b-day, and much more birding.
Big thanks go to Jerry Lorenz and Pete Fezza at Tavernier Science Center for welcoming us and preparing an excellent presentation on Roseate Spoonbill, and following discussions on Everglades restoration.
We encountered many excellent birds including:
Pied-billed Grebe
Audubon's Shearwater
Masked Booby
Brown Booby
Northern Gannet
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
Magnificent Frigatebird
Least Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great White Heron (also Wurdemann's Heron)
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Reddish Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Wood Stork
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Mottled Duck
Red-breasted Merganser
Osprey
Swallow-tailed Kite
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Sora
Purple Gallinule
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Royal Tern
Roseate Tern
Least Tern
Bridled Tern
Sooty Tern
Brown Noddy
Black Skimmer
Rock Dove
White-crowned Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Common Ground Dove
Monk Parakeet
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Mangrove Cuckoo (stellar looks by everyone!)
Eastern Screech-Owl
Burrowing Owl
Common Nighthawk
(our nemesis bird was the Antillean Nighthawk. I had seen and heard them in Marathon on the 24th, the day prior to meeting the group, but despite MANY excursions to parking lots, airports and ball parks, the group bombed-out on this species. Something saved for a return trip!)
Chimney Swift
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Gray Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Black-whiskered Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Purple Martin
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Cave Swallow (Caribbean)
Barn Swallow
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Common Myna
Tennessee Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler (gundlachi)
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Worm-eating Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Summer Tanager
Savannah Sparrow
Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Painted Bunting
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Shiny Cowbird
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Sparrow
Good Luck to all!
Rafael
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