10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2014

It is also a good description of the birding in southernmost Florida. Sure, Miami and the Florida Keys do not boast any endemics ( ‘Cape Sable’ Seaside Sparrow is close) at the species level. Few birders realize how many warblers actually do winter in southernmost Florida — even long time birders within the state.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

E.g. I remember trying to enter my local scrubland once, just across the car park behind the last apartment building and there, awaiting me, was a territorial pack of stray dogs barking at an intruder – me. Florida scrub jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens. How did I know that? Eurasian jay, Garrulus glandarius. European teal, Anas crecca.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Monk Parakeets , of course, have managed a beakhold in several cities across the continent , and Florida mantains a menagerie of Psitticids though it’s sort of unclear how many of them are self-sustaining and how many are sustained only by a constant seeding of escaped cage birds and smuggler’s losses.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2013

Smooth-billed Anis were relative newcomers as breeders to Florida, having only begun nesting since the 1930s. According to the Florida Breeding Bird Atlas, the first confirmed breeding record was in Miami in July of 1938. During this time, southern Florida was in a state of ecological chaos. Petersburg area and Cape Canaveral.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

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. A La Sagra’s Flycatcher, a Caribbean stray, continued at Charles Deering Estate. Porcelli, Mario. Rapoza, Brian.

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