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Great Miami Winter Bird Count 2015

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For others, it is simply a launching point to Everglades National Park or the Florida Keys. Although they breed on the west coast of Florida, Snowy Plover is a rare stray to this part of the state. Red-winged Blackbird: 962. Yellow-headed Blackbird: 1. Birding florida birds Miami birding warblers'

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A Great Day Out West – Bobcats, Birds and Boardwalks

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“Out West” to most Floridians might mean California or Arizona or might even refer to the Gulf Coast of Florida. These two water management wetlands are amongst the very best birding and photography locations in south Florida. And this is where magic happens from time to time. If not THE best.

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Anhinga Trail at Dawn — a Wildlife Spectacle

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I challenge that false notion and welcome those to visit Anhinga Trail in late winter and see one of the great wildlife spectacles of Florida. A flock of Red-winged Blackbirds , over a thousand strong, fly overhead in several waves towards their feeding grounds.

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A Guide to Parking Lot Birds of the Southeast

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The western half of the continent sees a lot of Brewer’s Blackbirds mixed in. And in the free-flying aviary that is Florida you can easily be shocked by what you find, but White Ibis seem to show a surprising affinity to the local fast food joints. But there’s still some regional biases for those who pay attention.

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Baby Bird Books, Little Bird Books

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Jake lives in southern Florida, so he and his friends had to be interested in learning about these birds, which they saw everyday, right? And then I showed them the one photo that was not taken in Florida, an image of baby American Robins in a nest in Central Park. There is nothing as deadly as 15 bored 4-year olds.

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Half Hardy

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I chanced to glance at a bird perched atop the Oak tree in my back yard, figuring it was one of the Blackbirds or Grackles that had recently returned to my neighborhood. The vast majority of Baltimore Orioles that breed in North America return to the tropics between Mexico and northern South America for the cold half of the year.

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The Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition: A Review of an Iconic Guide in a New Edition

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In Sibley Two, the in-flight images literally fly across the page in slight diagonals, with the full-bodied images are presented below in a parallel order (meaning we see the same bird–fresh juvenile, worn juvenile, 1st year, Adult breeding, Adult nonbreeding–in the same part of the page for each species).