Tropical Audubon Society

South Florida’s Voice of Conservation

Fourteen birders joined me for today’s TAS trip to the Islamorada area in the Florida Keys. We began the trip at the Cracker Barrel in Florida City. Locations visited included Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park, Long Key State Park, Lake Edna on Grassy Key, Curry Hammock State Park, Key Colony, Marathon Airport and Sea Oats Beach on Lower Matecumbe Key. Our visit to Curry Hammock included a stop at the Florida Keys Hawkwatch, where we saw only a couple of Ospreys. Good numbers of Ospreys were seen throughout the upper Keys, many of them likely migrating through right now. We tallied 53 bird species, including nine each of shorebirds and warblers. Here’s the list:

Blue-winged Teal
Magnificent Frigatebird
Double-crested Cormorant
Brown Pelican
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Tricolored Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
White Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Spotted Sandpiper
Willet (Western)
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Least Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
White-crowned Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Common Ground Dove
Mourning Dove
Peregrine Falcon
Common Nighthawk
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Gray Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Red-eyed Vireo
Black-whiskered Vireo
Blue Jay
Barn Swallow
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Common Myna
Northern Waterthrush
Ovenbird
Northern Parula
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Prairie Warbler
American Redstart
Worm-eating Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Cardinal
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle