Monday, May 5, 2008

T-minus 100 hours and counting....

This week is going to be hell at work. I'm already having problems concentrating on my work with my trip to Florida rapidly approaching. To illustrate the potential of this trip for me, here's a list of the potential life and ABA area birds that I could see next week (compiled from Bill Pranty's A Birder's Guide to Florida). I'll publish a follow-up post after I return, so we can compare this list with what I actually see.

Potential Life Birds:
  1. Black-Bellied Whistling Duck
  2. Fulvous Whistling Duck
  3. Mottled Duck
  4. Masked Duck
  5. Cory's Shearwater
  6. Audubon's Shearwater
  7. Leach's Storm-petrel
  8. Band-rumped Storm-petrel
  9. White-tailed Tropicbird
  10. Masked Booby
  11. Brown Booby
  12. Red-footed Booby
  13. Least Bittern
  14. Reddish Egret
  15. White Ibis
  16. Roseate Spoonbill
  17. Greater Flamingo
  18. Swallow-tailed Kite
  19. White-tailed Kite
  20. Snail Kite
  21. Crested Caracara
  22. Clapper Rail
  23. Limpkin
  24. Snowy Plover
  25. Wilson's Plover
  26. Upland Sandpiper
  27. Gull-billed Tern
  28. Elegant Tern
  29. Roseate Tern
  30. Bridled Tern
  31. Brown Noddy
  32. Black Noddy
  33. Black Skimmer
  34. White-crowned Pigeon
  35. Eurasian Collared-Dove
  36. KeyWest Quail-Dove
  37. Budgerigar
  38. Monk Parakeet
  39. Green Parakeet
  40. White-winged Parakeet
  41. Red-crowned Parrot
  42. Smooth-billed Ani
  43. Burrowing Owl
  44. Antillean Nighthawk
  45. Red-cockaded Woodpecker
  46. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
  47. Florida Scrub-jay
  48. Red-whiskered Bulbul
  49. Bahama Mockingbird
  50. Western Spindalis
  51. Bachman's Sparrow
  52. Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
  53. Seaside Sparrow
  54. Painted Bunting
  55. Bronzed Cowbird
  56. Spot-breasted Oriole
Potential ABA-area birds:
  1. Magnificent Frigatebird
  2. American Oystercatcher
  3. Royal Tern
  4. Sandwich Tern
  5. White-winged Dove
  6. Common Ground-dove
  7. Mangrove Cuckoo
  8. Gray Kingbird
  9. Black-whiskered Vireo
  10. Cave Swallow
  11. Bananaquit
  12. Shiny Cowbird

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