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Posted by Larry Manfredi on 21:12:35 06/03/05
In Reply to: trip report/cuckoo question posted by Kurk Dorsey
: Birders,
: I just got back from a four-day family vacation in the Miami area, which meant limited birding but some nice finds for this northerner:
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: 5/30 2 anis at the greenbelt south of the Ft. Lauderdale airport; just as I saw the first one, a cooper's hawk swooped in and tried to take away my life ani--boy did I have mixed feelings about that encounter
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: 5/31 3 black-whiskered vireos at the Key Largo botanical site
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: 6/1 2 limpkins and one great white heron (called by the tram operator and ranger) at Shark Valley; 1 prothonotary warbler and 5 otters and Sweetwater strand in Big Cypress
: --1 cuckoo at the Valujet memorial that looked, as it flew away, like mangrove--but wouldn't that be pretty far out of its range?
: --2 snail kites at the old airboat concession just west of Shark Valley
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: 6/2 2 yellow-chevroned parakeets at Kendall Avenue (but no other target species in the neighborhood)
: --at least 7 burrowing owls at Wings over Miami/Kendall Tamiami airport
: --one hell of a visit to the Asian bird aviary at the Metrozoo
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: Also, frigatebirds every day over the I-195 Causeway--good thing I wasn't driving!
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: Any thoughts on the likelihood of a mangrove cuckoo near the Valujet memorial would be appreciated.
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: Kurk Dorsey
: Newmarket NH
I am certain that the bird you saw was a Yellow-billed Cuckoo. These are pretty common in that part of the Everglades. The habitat is wrong for Mangrove Cuckoo.
Larry Manfredi
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