10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida By James • March 8, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share For as long as I can remember I’ve been fascinated by shorebirds.

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APRIL 20, 2011

Even in the Brazilian Amazon, I’ve never seen this many whistling ducks together–there were sixty at a manmade lake behind the Brevard Community College near Titusville, Florida. I don’t get a lot of life birds in North America any more, but this confiding little gent offered himself up to the list: a Florida Scrub-Jay.

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MARCH 17, 2015

I recently returned from my family’s annual spring trip to Florida, and unlike years previous I didn’t get any special time set aside to bird this time round. I’m not that old, but I have been in this birding game for 20 years and even I can remember when Wood Stork was a choice bird in central Florida.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

People in North America began using the term “right whale” in the early 1700s, and originally “right” may have meant “typical,” as these whales were considered common and ordinary. Before whaling began, estimates suggest there were 9,000 to 21,000 North Atlantic right whales. Every individual matters in the fight to save them.

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APRIL 21, 2011

Its debatable which one is a better bird for Florida. I may now have the distinction of being the only birder to have found two of this species in North America – not bad for a guy who hasn’t been blessed with a great deal of luck at finding major rarities. To be honest, this was actually a bit of a downer for me.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I’ve been learning to band birds at the South Florida Bird Observatory. Of course I’ve seen these birds in Florida many times but I never really appreciated just how big these nocturnal bucket mouths are. These are the largest nightjars in North America, significantly larger than Whip-poor-will or any of the nighthawks.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

But while monarchs are among the most charismatic and well-studied of lepidopteran migrants, rather less attention is paid to the fact that North America is home to other migrating butterflies. Cloudless sulfurs stay east and winter in Florida. The American snout periodically moves through Texas and Mexico in huge numbers.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

The entire Golden-crowned Sparrow population migrates within North America between winter and summer ranges… arriving in California in September and October, often foraging with White-crowned Sparrows. Resources: 1 Birds of North America Online.

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JULY 5, 2013

I always like to see the look of surprise on a visiting birder’s face when I tell them that the Prairie Warblers and Yellow Warblers in southern Florida are restricted to mangrove habitats. Everyone, I would like you to meet the ‘Florida’ Prairie Warbler ( S.

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JANUARY 29, 2015

The invasive Burmese Python ( Python molurus ) is well established in the Florida Everglade. Another species of Python, the African Python ( Python sebae ) has established a small population in the 2,877-acre Bird Drive Area (BDA) in South Florida. Photo Credit: Invasive and Exotic Species of North America (www.invasive.org).

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MAY 12, 2013

The legs can act a a fulcrum when the Black-neck Stilt feeds, like the bird below, which I observed in the Florida Everglades. This is called the “Head Immersion Method”, according to Birds of North America (BNA), a feeding process in which the bird dips its head in the water and mud to feast on aquatic invertebrates. (I

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JANUARY 29, 2013

“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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MARCH 1, 2019

Sliding the glass door to my Florida backyard, I shuffled my slipper-clad feet and closed the opening behind me. Ahab wasn’t fishing, and the guys in ‘The Big Year’ aren’t watching birds, they’re scouring North America in a ruthless bid to tick off more species than anyone else.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

The authors’ goals are (1) to provide information that will help readers identify a bird nest; (2) to explore the broader ecology of bird nests of North America, “an ecological study of how hundreds of species have adapted nests and nesting behavior to environs that range from tropical deciduous forest to Arctic tundra” (p.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Birders from North America who have tried to find Mangrove Cuckoos in south Florida know how frustratingly elusive the secretive species can be. They are hard to find, difficult to see well, and seem to have a sixth sense about avoiding the camera. It is unclear why, exactly, this is so.

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JULY 6, 2020

In his blog, Birds and Nature North America, the peripatetic Bruce Beehler professes to cover not just what the title says, but also American culture, American history, and “stories of back-roads travel and camping.” Lately (in the last month or so) he’s been through the Dakotas, Montana, and Canada, up to the Northwest Territories.

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APRIL 25, 2012

Most of the Osprey breeding in North America are migratory, only Florida, the Caribbean and Baja California host non-migratory breeders 1. References: 1 Birds of North America Online … A fish may love a bird, but where would they live? This pair copulated several times while I was observing.

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Brown Pelican occurs in both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America and northern South America. They nearly disappeared from North America between the late 1950s and early 1970s because of pesticides entering the food chain. Brown Pelicans in non-breeding plumage.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

These guides are sequels, updates, and complements to Wheeler’s previous classic books, Raptors of Eastern North America and Raptors of Western North America (PUP, 2003), now out-of-print and fetching prices in three figures on used-book sites. Species Accounts. Plate 3, Osprey, Birds of Prey of the East.

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MAY 3, 2016

I purchased my first Sibley— The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America —in 2003. At the same time, care has been taken to eliminate exotics no longer a presence, such as several of south Florida’s parrots. The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America: Second Edition. I have a lot.

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DECEMBER 16, 2015

The Marbled Godwit ( Limosa fedoa ) in the photo above, shown landing at Fort De Soto County Park in Pinellas County, Florida, is used with permission from my friend Mia McPherson of On The Wing Photography fame. References: 1 Birds of North America Online ,

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JUNE 23, 2015

In short, pesticide use in the 1950’s and 1960’s almost wiped them from North America. To try to regain the species, state officials even brought in fledglings from Florida , a program that continued until 1980 ! In 1970 the Brown Pelican was listed as nationally endangered.

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MARCH 24, 2011

I was in Florida last week, the freakiest of the southeastern states. I don’t play golf and I’m not one for laying out by the pool so my Florida related activities are almost exclusively exploration related and even though I was hardly at what you’d call a wildlife refuge, it was Florida. All true of course.

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JULY 23, 2014

The Eurasian Collared-Dove , as Larry has already ably pointed out , has spread rapidly across North America since its release in the Bahamas in the mid-1970s.

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JANUARY 20, 2015

For instance, #400 for is Peregrine Falcon , which I first spotted in the Florida Keys. While filling the tank I spotted a number of circling raptors and, grabbing my binoculars, found a trio of Peregrines circling with Sharp-shinned Hawks , Turkey Vultures , and Magnificent Frigatebirds (it was the Florida Keys, after all).

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MAY 11, 2013

First off, Audubon of Florida reports that counts indicate more Roseate Spoonbills are nesting in Florida Bay (between the mainland and the Keys) this year than last year, although those numbers are still lower than in the last decade. What do all these birds have in common? They’re (at least partially) pink.

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JUNE 23, 2019

Prior to serving in the Confederacy, Driver notes, McCown played leading roles in genocidal campaigns against indigenous peoples on the US-Canada border and against the Seminoles in Florida. McCown is an extraordinary case.

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MAY 23, 2016

The first to publish was New Jersey and since then six more states have come out: Colorado, Florida, California, Pennsylvania, Texas and New York. Word is that Arizona is about to be released and Minnesota, North Carolina and other states are in the pipeline. But not everyone wants a field guide that covers the birds of a single state.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

The STK families will be departing the panhandle of Florida, with flights possibly hugging the Gulf coastline. Super Hot-spot: Little Crawl Key, FL – Atlantic Flyway. Fall count to date: 608. Swallow-tailed Kite. Photo by © Michael Todd. Mississippi Kite. Photo by © Mike Blevins. Super Hot-spot: Corpus Christi, TX – Central Flyway.

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JANUARY 15, 2016

These birds are not found in North America, but have a range in the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and the Hawaiian Islands. She verified the bird’s identity and told me that the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary in Indian Shores, Florida was one of the few places equipped to handle this species.

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MAY 26, 2018

The Miami-Dade County Commission approved development of ‘the largest shopping mall in North America’ with a vote of 9-1 last week. Though the water is to be drawn from the Upper Florida Aquifer, drawdown in that source is a matter of continuing concern and study. Merchandising folly 1 – Conservation 0. Anhinga Trail moonrise.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

And this from New England to Florida, west as far as the Great Plains. They are also popular in the pet trade and as an adornment for ladies hats, the millinery trade being pretty devastating to many of North America’s flashiest birds. Barreling into your feeder with reckless abandon and cleaning you right out.

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JULY 23, 2014

In North America and the Caribbean, they are found mostly in suburban, urban, and agricultural areas where grain, roost, and nest sites are available. In Florida nesting has been reported in every month except January 1. This next map is data from 2007 through 2008. And the last one shows the stats from 2013 to the present.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Take the fossil horse Hipparion , found in France and Florida. Clearly this needed explaining, and the explanation that the geologists settled on was that a land bridge has risen up between Florida and France. The Bering Land Bridge linking Siberia to North America is an example. How far could those horses swim?

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MAY 1, 2012

Birding the Dry Tortugas in late April has always been high on my bucket-list of the best birding experiences in North America. And last week I got to celebrate my coming of (young) age by crossing one off the old list, courtesy of my mate Adrian Binns and Wes Biggs of Florida Nature Tours. That means I used to be very young.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

Read on if you want to indulge me in reliving my version of it… In 2014 I birded in three countries (United States, Canada, Costa Rica), four states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida), and forty-two counties. (I’m My trip to Florida and some timely twitches are all that made that happen. That’s so cool.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

I’ve heard of parks in Florida that have red-shoulders who have figured out how to grab chicken pieces off of grills as an easy food source. I headed over to Cornell’s Birds of North America online to see what they had in their notes about the diet of Red-shouldered Hawks.

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