Florida Trip ~ May 10, 1997

We birded Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge before heading to the Fort Lauderdale Airport. It was my last chance to find a Smooth-billed Ani. Although we never found one, we did see Anhinga, Green and Great Blue Heron, Great, Snowy, and Cattle Egret, White and Glossy Ibis, Wood Stork, Mottled Duck, Fulvous Whistling-Duck, Red-shouldered Hawk, Common Moorhen, Limpkin, Black-necked Stilt, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Great Crested Flycatcher, Loggerhead Shrike, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, and Bobolink. We were also surprised to see a Bobcat walking down the dike near the observation tower.

A Bobcat at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Florida.

Sightings along the highway included Eurasian Collared-Dove, Gray Kingbird, and Purple Martin.

After returning the car with an additional 1400 miles on it, we boarded our flight in Fort Lauderdale and headed for Allentown by way of Charlotte. Of the 155 species seen during the trip, 23 were 'life birds'.

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Florida Trip List

1) Pied-billed Grebe
2) Magnificent Frigatebird*
3) American White Pelican
4) Brown Pelican
5) Northern Gannet
6) Brown Booby*
7) Masked Booby
8) Anhinga
9) Double-crested Cormorant
10) Black-crowned Night-Heron
11) Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
12) Green Heron
13) Tricolored Heron
14) Little Blue Heron
15) Reddish Egret
16) Cattle Egret
17) Snowy Egret
18) Great Egret
19) Great Blue Heron (also Great "White" Heron)
20) Wood Stork*
21) Glossy Ibis
22) White Ibis
23) Roseate Spoonbill*
24) Sandhill Crane
25) Mottled Duck
26) Blue-winged Teal
27) Fulvous Whistling-Duck
28) Limpkin*
29) Virginia Rail
30) Purple Gallinule
31) Common Moorhen
32) American Coot
33) Black-necked Stilt
34) Semipalmated Plover
35) Killdeer
36) Black-bellied Plover
37) Willet
38) Lesser Yellowlegs
39) Solitary Sandpiper
40) Spotted Sandpiper
41) Ruddy Turnstone
42) Semipalmated Sandpiper
43) Least Sandpiper
44) Pomarine Jaeger
45) Laughing Gull
46) Common Tern
47) Roseate Tern
48) Least Tern
49) Sandwich Tern
50) Royal Tern
51) Bridled Tern
52) Sooty Tern*
53) Black Noddy*
54) Brown Noddy*
55) Black Skimmer
56) Turkey Vulture
57) Black Vulture
58) Bald Eagle
59) Swallow-tailed Kite
60) Snail Kite*
61) Sharp-shinned Hawk
62) Red-shouldered Hawk
63) Red-tailed Hawk
64) Osprey
65) Crested Caracara
66) Merlin
67) Peregrine Falcon
68) Northern Bobwhite
69) Wild Turkey
70) White-crowned Pigeon*
71) Rock Dove
72) Mourning Dove
73) White-winged Dove
74) Common Ground-Dove
75) Eurasian-collared Dove*
76) Yellow-chevroned Parakeet*
77) Monk Parakeet*
78) Mitred Parakeet
79) Blue-crowned Parrot
80) Mangrove Cuckoo*
81) Yellow-billed Cuckoo
82) Short-eared Owl ("West Indian" race)
83) Eastern Screech-Owl
84) Common Nighthawk
85) Antillean Nighthawk*
86) Chimney Swift
87) Ruby-throated Hummingbird
88) Belted Kingfisher
89) Red-bellied Woodpecker
90) Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker
91) Downy Woodpecker
92) Red-cockaded Woodpecker
93) Pileated Woodpecker
94) Eastern Kingbird
95) Gray Kingbird*
96) Western Kingbird
97) Great Crested Flycatcher
98) Eastern Wood-Pewee
99) Purple Martin
100) Bank Swallow
101) Cave Swallow ("West Indian" race)
102) Barn Swallow
103) Florida Scrub Jay*
104) Blue Jay
105) American Crow
106) Fish Crow
107) Tufted Titmouse
108) Carolina Wren
109) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
110) Eastern Bluebird
111) Veery
112) Swainson's Thrush
113) Gray-cheeked Thrush
114) American Robin
115) Loggerhead Shrike
116) Gray Catbird
117) Northern Mockingbird
118) Cedar Waxwing
119) Red-whiskered Bulbul*
120) Common Myna
121) European Starling
122) White-eyed Vireo
123) Black-whiskered Vireo*
124) Northern Parula
125) Black-and-white Warbler
126) Black-throated Blue Warbler
127) Cape May Warbler
128) Magnolia Warbler
129) Yellow-rumped "Myrtle" Warbler
130) Black-throated Green Warbler
131) Prairie Warbler
132) Bay-breasted Warbler
133) Blackpoll Warbler
134) Pine Warbler
135) Palm Warbler
136) Hooded Warbler
137) Ovenbird
138) Northern Waterthrush
139) Common Yellowthroat
140) American Redstart
141) Rose-breasted Grosbeak
142) Northern Cardinal
143) Indigo Bunting
144) Eastern (Rufous-sided) Towhee
145) Bachman's Sparrow*
146) Dickcissel
147) Bobolink
148) Eastern Meadowlark
149) Red-winged Blackbird
150) Brown-headed Cowbird
151) Shiny Cowbird*
152) Common Grackle
153) Boat-tailed Grackle
154) Spot-breasted Oriole*
155) House Sparrow

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