I’m debating whether to make a trip to Florida next year. There are still a few life birds for me down there, most notably the endemic Florida Scrub-Jay. Near endemics in the ABA area include Limpkin, Bachman’s Sparrow, Swallow-tailed Kite, Short-tailed Hawk, Sooty Tern, and Snail Kite. Also possible are Brown-headed Nuthatch, Leconte’s Sparrow, Henslow’s Sparrow, Black-whiskered Vireo, Swainson’s Warbler, Shiny Cowbird, Black Rail, and Yellow Rail. Greater Flamingo is arguable but only if I get down to the Everglades. None of these are easy to find, but most should be doable if I plan for them specifically.
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There are a couple of festivals I could attend. The Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival<\/a> in Titusville in January might be my best shot for species that winter in Florida, but January isn’t a good month for me. Florida’s Birding and Photo Fest<\/a> in April might pick up a few of these, but it’s further north than I’d like. There’s also a good Central Florida Photo Workshop<\/a> with Jim Neiger and James Shadle I’m thinking about. <\/p>\n To try for all of these might take a week tacked on to any of these events. <\/p>\n I’m going to Florida for Bugshot 2012 in August. The Archbold Biological Station where I’ll be staying for a few days is a prime spot for Florida Scrub Jay. I think I’m going to spend a couple of extra days in and around Fort Myers which should give me good opportunities for the remainder of the species I still need. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m debating whether to make a trip to Florida next year. There are still a few life birds for me down there, most notably the endemic Florida Scrub-Jay. Near endemics in the ABA area include Limpkin, Bachman’s Sparrow, Swallow-tailed Kite, Short-tailed Hawk, Sooty Tern, and Snail Kite. Also possible are Brown-headed Nuthatch, Leconte’s Sparrow, Henslow’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004095"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004313,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004095\/revisions\/1004313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Update<\/h3>\n