My family and I just returned from Florida on December 22, but due to a virus on the computer, I haven't had a chance to report this until now. We saw 109 species of birds from December 12-22 and visited the Everglades, the Keys, and various other places mostly in southern FL. The first half of the trip was birding, the second half was Disney and visiting my parent's friends. The first half was my favorite part
. I took a good deal of pictures with my new camera and will post some of them in the gallery.The following is my trip report. The birds with a star (*) after them were life birds.
GREBES
Pied-billed Grebe
FRIGATEBIRDS
Magnificent Frigatebird*
GANNETS AND BOOBIES
Northern Gannet*
Masked Booby*
CORMORANTS
Double-crested Cormorant
ANHINGAS
Anhinga*
PELICANS
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
DUCKS, SWANS, & GEESE
Wood Duck
American Wigeon
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Mottled Duck*
Northern Pintail
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Ring-necked Duck
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
HERONS, EGRETS, & BITTERNS
Reddish Egret*
Tricolored Heron*
Little Blue Heron*
Snowy Egret
Great Blue Heron
Great White Heron (not a species at the moment)*
Great Egret
Cattle Egret*
Green Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron*
IBIS AND SPOONBILLS
White Ibis*
Glossy Ibis*
Roseate Spoonbill*
STORKS
Wood Stork*
NEW WORLD VULTURES
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
OSPREY
Osprey
HAWKS, EAGLES, & KITES
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Short-tailed Hawk*
FALCONS & CARACARAS
Crested Caracara*
American Kestrel
RAILS & COOTS
Purple Gallinule*
Common Moorhen
American Coot
CRANES
Sandhill Crane
SANDPIPERS
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs*
Willet
Ruddy Turnstone
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Red Knot*
Sanderling
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
OYSTERCATCHERS
American Oystercatcher*
PLOVERS
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Wilson’s Plover*
Killdeer
Piping Plover*
GULLS & TERNS
Ring-billed Gull
Laughing Gull*
Royal Tern*
Sandwich Tern*
Common Tern*
Forster’s Tern
SKIMMERS
Black Skimmer
PIGEONS & DOVES
Rock Pigeon
White-crowned Pigeon*
Eurasian Collared-Dove*
Mourning Dove
White-winged Dove
Common Ground-Dove*
PARROTS
Monk Parakeet*
KINGFISHERS
Belted Kingfisher
WOODPECKERS
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
TYRANT FLYCATCHERS
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
CROWS & JAYS
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow*
SHRIKES
Loggerhead Shrike
THRUSHES
American Robin
MOCKINGBIRDS
Northern Mockingbird
STARLINGS
European Starling
Common Myna (not accepted as an established species)
WRENS
Carolina Wren
GNATCATCHERS
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
SWALLOWS
Tree Swallow
KINGLETS
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
BULBULS
Red-whiskered Bulbul
CHICKADEES, TITS
Tufted Titmouse
OLD WORLD SPARROWS
House Sparrow
NEW WORLD WARBLERS
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler*
Yellow-throated Warbler*
Prairie Warbler*
Palm Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
BUNTINGS, SPARROWS, TANAGERS, ALLIES
Northern Cardinal
BLACKBIRDS, GRACKLES, ORIOLES
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Boat-tailed Grackle*
Common Grackle
Good birding!
Michael W