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South Florida Specialties Birding

10,000 Birds

Of course, I contacted Carlos Sanchez , alleged south Florida birder extraordinaire, to maximize the returns on what time I could spend. From the bulbuls we went in search of another introduced species that has taken to south Florida like home. Why bother with birds you can’t check off your list, right? He was right!

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Birding while Holiday Shopping

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Common Myna, a steadily spreading exotic in southern Florida restricted to artificial, man-made habitats. In southeastern Florida, most of the bird species restricted to parking lots and similar artificial habitats are exotic species. Ring-billed Gull, an abundant wintering species in parking lots of southeast Florida.

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Twitching a Gray Kingbird in New York

10,000 Birds

By Wednesday I was thinking about the odds of the bird both sticking through the end of the day on Friday and Daisy agreeing to me taking the entire day before Mothers Day to twitch a bird that I saw last week in Florida. The long drive back to New York was filled by more lousy, incidental eBird checklists, more fast food, and more road kill.

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