Sunday, May 25th Memorial Day
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White-winged Parakeets |
Just spent Monday morning visiting a few spots around south Miami before heading back to Ft Myers. As today is a national holiday, the University of Miami campus in Coral Gables would be a good place to start the day looking for exotics.
No classes today, so the campus was very quite. And we were hopefully to finally experience the blue and yellow macaws that can sometimes be seen here. We did see or hear the macaws, but we did find a pair of Common Hill Mynas, a couple of White-winged Parakeets, a single Red-masked Parakeet and lifers in seeing two pair of Scaly-headed Parrots (Pionus maximiliani). They scaly-headed parrots are species from South America. All of the birds mentioned are local populations of escaped caged birds and their off-springs, that have managed to find a home in sub-tropical Miami.
We moved on to recheck the campus of the Kendall Baptist Hospital and found the Mitred Parakeets busy feeding in the palm trees. A couple of Egyptian Geese were found at the smaller pond away from the Muscovy ducks, Graylag Geese, Swan Geese and other domesticated ducks on the larger pond. Bob thought that the Egyptian Geese may have been nesting.
Last stop for the trip was a location along Snapper Creek Canal for the nesting Cave Swallows seen there. Several were seen flying in and out from under the bridge. We also spotted what I think are Spiny-tailed Iguanas sunning themselves along the canal.
From here it was time to end the birding and head home. We didn't get all of the photographic opportunities we were looking for, but it was a successful weekend. Next year need to go a few weeks earlier.
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Egyptian Goose in Kendall |
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Great Egret at Kendall |
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Mitred Parakeet feeding in palm tree |
We found close to a hundred bird species including most of the Florida Keys avian specialties, many south Florida exotic birds and lizards and other south Florida native fauna including Bottle-nosed Dolphins, Key Deer and American Crocodile.
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Spiny-tailed Iguana at Snapper Creek Canal |
Monday's Bird List
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Swan
Goose (Domestic type)
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Graylag
Goose (Domestic type)
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Egyptian
Goose
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Muscovy
Duck
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Mallard
(Domestic type)
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Great
Egret
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Snowy
Egret
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Tricolored
Heron
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Green
Heron
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Yellow-crowned
Night-Heron
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White
Ibis
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Common
Gallinule
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Rock
Pigeon
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Eurasian
Collared-Dove
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Common
Ground-Dove
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Mourning
Dove
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Red-bellied
Woodpecker
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White-winged
Parakeet
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Scaly-headed
Parrot
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Mitred
Parakeet
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Red-masked
Parakeet
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Gray
Kingbird
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Blue
Jay
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Fish
Crow
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Cave
Swallow
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Northern
Mockingbird
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Common
Hill Myna
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European
Starling
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Northern
Cardinal
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Common
Grackle
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Boat-tailed
Grackle
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House
Sparrow
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