3/2008 (3/29 Sat - 4/5 Sat)
South Caribbean Cruise ( Puerto Rico 3/29 & 4/5, St. Thomas
3/30, St. Kitts 3/31,
Grenada 4/1, Bonaire 4/2 and Aruba 4/3)
Vessel: Princess Crown
Greater Flamingo
Yellow-shouldered Parrot - National Park, Bonaire
Brown-throated Parakeet - Tierra del Sol Golf Course, Aruba
Northern / Tropical
Mockingbird
- Grenada; photo of Tropical Mockingbird
info:
Tropical Mockingbird
,
more 1: "In the
limited area of overlap in southern Mexico, it can be separated from the very
similar
Northern Mockingbird by the lack of a whitish patch near the base of the
primaries.",
The Mockingbird (Corrie Herring Hooks Series) by
Robin W. Doughty (1995) [According to the book and wikipedia, the
Mockingbirds seen in South Caribbean are probably Tropical. Since they are
close relative and occasionally interbreed, I would like to treat them as one
category.] page: 17
Here has
pictures of all 3 Mockingbirds.
Mourning Dove - St. Thomas
Pearly-eyed Thrasher - St. Thomas; photo: <1>
<2>
Brown Pelican - St. Thomas
Belted Kingfisher - St. Thomas
Semipalmated Sandpiper (or Western?) - St. Kitts; photo:
<1> <2>
<3>
Troupial (like Baltimore Oriole) - pier, Bonaire;
photo
Bananaquit - Bonaire; photo
Bananaquit, Grenada and St. Vincent race (completely black). also called
Black See-See
- Grenada; photo
http://academic.uprm.edu/publications/cjs/VOL16/P005-008.PDF
In the races of St. Vincent
(atrata) and Grenada (aterrima) most individuals are black while on Los Testigos (ferryi) and Los Roques (lowii), islets of northern Venezuela, all are black.Pictures of the "Black Bananaquit" and other Caribbean birds found on Web
More pictures found on Web pdf
5/10/2008 (Sat)
Forest Park - from Metropolitan Ave & Park Lane South, going toward the waterhole
Jean ( dm5078 AT aol.com ) Report
Common Yellowthroat
Kentucky warbler Oporornis formosus
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Kentucky_Warbler_dtl.html#sound
http://birdfreak.com/bird-conservation-kentucky-warbler/ - a secretive eastern wood warbler that has shown steady declines over the last 30 years. The total population as of 2004 is around 1,100,000. The biggest threat to the Kentucky Warbler is habitat loss, fragmentation and parasitism from Brown-headed Cowbirds.
Eastern Kingbird
Blackburnian Warbler, known as the firethroat - I:\200705\bird\200805\blackburnian-Warbler-male.jpg
Baltimore Oriole
5/31/2008 (Sat)
Jewel Ave., Van Wick Entry
House Finch - several males and females (with males so I assume not House Sparrow)
Catbirds, one Yellow Warbler, one Cardinal in the basketball field.
one young Mourning Dove.
one female Robin caught a caterpillar
6/7/2008 (Sat) morning
78 Ave, top of the tree at my car - Mockingbird
Jewel Ave., Van Wick Entry
1 Common Grackle, 1 Catbird
House Finch - more than 1 males and females
Juvenile Robin, Juvenile Starling
Forest Park
1 Catbird drink water
Baltimore Oriole preen on a high branch for > 5 min
6/14/2008 (Sat) morning
Unofficial site of Marine Nature Study Area
6/21/2008 (Sat)
Forest Park
a good and long look of a Blue Jay, an immature Robin, a beautiful female Cardinal
perhaps seen a male Orchid Oriole and a waxwing
many Common Grackles
when coming back to the parking (overlook) at Park Lane South, seen a catbird along the steep road (the portion of East Main Dr between Metropolitan Ave and Park Lane South).
6/26-29/2008 (Thu-Sun)
7/4/2008 (Fri)
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
7/19/2008 (Sat)
w/ naturalist Ron Bourque
song sparrow, tree swallow, mourning dove, mockingbird, red-winged blackbirds, killdeers, oystercatchers, common terns, baby common tern, other terns? (least tern?), black skimmers, sanderlings, 4 species of gulls, piping plovers, Willet, double-crested cormorants.
7/26/2008 (Sat) 1pm
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, East and West Pond
w/ naturalist Don Riepe
semipalmated sandpipers, least sandpipers, semipalmated plovers, Short-billed Dowitchers, laughing gulls, black skimmer, Lesser Yellowlegs, Glossy Ibises, Little Blue Heron, juvenile double-crested cormorants, Snowy Egrets, etc.
on the bird-log, somebody saw Wilson's Phalarope today and previous days.
8/10/2008 (Sun) 2pm
Forest Park, Reclamation Pond
female red-winged blackbirds and young cardinals and robins.
8/17/2008 (Sun) 5pm
Forest Park, Reclamation Pond
female red-winged blackbirds (RWBBs) and perhaps a blue-winged warbler.
Photo of immature male RWBB found on Web
12/2008
Florida (Palm Beach) trip - visiting Lisa Wong
