Back from Florida, detailed updates to follow

Well, I'm back! What a great trip it was. I hit many of my target birds, and added 46 birds to my ABA list. This week, I'll post a summary of each day with photos, and a trip list as well.

For now, here's a list of the target birds I did see from the list I posted earlier (note that this list does not include all the life birds I saw):

Life Birds (Potential of 56):

1. Black-Bellied Whistling Duck
2. Mottled Duck
3. Audubon's Shearwater
4. Masked Booby
5. Brown Booby
6. Red-footed Booby
7. Least Bittern
8. Reddish Egret
9. White Ibis
10. Roseate Spoonbill
11. Swallow-tailed Kite
12. Snail Kite
13. Crested Caracara
14. Clapper Rail
15. Limpkin
16. Snowy Plover
17. Wilson's Plover
18. Roseate Tern
19. Bridled Tern
20. Brown Noddy
21. Black Noddy
22. Black Skimmer
23. White-crowned Pigeon
24. Eurasian Collared-Dove
25. Budgerigar
26. Monk Parakeet
27. Smooth-billed Ani
28. Burrowing Owl
29. Antillean Nighthawk
30. Florida Scrub-jay
31. Red-whiskered Bulbul
32. Bachman's Sparrow
33. Spot-breasted Oriole

ABA-area birds (Potential of 12) :

1. Magnificent Frigatebird
2. American Oystercatcher
3. Royal Tern
4. White-winged Dove
5. Common Ground-dove
6. Mangrove Cuckoo
7. Gray Kingbird
8. Black-whiskered Vireo
9. Cave Swallow
10. Shiny Cowbird

On another note, chew on this news about an ex-parrot:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080516123153.htm