10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2013
Smooth-billed Anis were relative newcomers as breeders to Florida, having only begun nesting since the 1930s. From the 1940s to the 1970s, the species rapidly spread from the southern tip of the peninsula to areas north of Lake Okeechobee including the Tampa-St. Petersburg area and Cape Canaveral.
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2013
Although both species are widespread in North America as breeders in shrubby edge habitats, that is not the case in the southern half of the sunshine state (the more northerly race of Prairie Warbler is an uncommon breeder in the panhandle). Everyone, I would like you to meet the ‘Florida’ Prairie Warbler ( S.
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2014
Many visitors who come through Orlando or Tampa see maybe eight or ten species on a winter trip. In fact, it was the explosive expansion of introduced Eurasian Collared-Dove which lead to the range expansion of Cooper’s Hawks in urban Miami as breeders.
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