This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Java Buzz
by Elliotte Rusty Harold.
Original Post: #503 Puerto Rican Bullfinch
Feed Title: Mokka mit Schlag
Feed URL: http://www.elharo.com/blog/feed/atom/?
Feed Description: Ranting and Raving
Only one life bird today, the endemic Puerto Rican Bullfinch. I saw it only very briefly; but it’s very distinctive and easily identified: a jet black bird with big orange on its head and throat. I saw this on the Ballenas Trail in the Bosque del Seco. Unfortunately, I did not get a photo of this one, so how about a much better photo of a Puerto Rican Tody instead?
Only one life bird in a day. Must be time to go home. After one week my Puerto Rican list (which is identical to my Caribbean list) stands at 59 species:
West Indian Whistling-Duck
Blue-winged Teal
White-cheeked Pintail
Ruddy Duck
Brown Pelican
Magnificent Frigatebird
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Glossy Ibis
Turkey Vulture
American Kestrel
Common Moorhen
Caribbean Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Wilson’s Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Spotted Sandpiper
Willet
Lesser Yellowlegs
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Rock Pigeon
White-winged Dove
Zenaida Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Monk Parakeet
Puerto Rican Lizard-Cuckoo
Smooth-billed Ani
Antillean Nighthawk
Antillean Mango
Puerto Rican Tody
Puerto Rican Woodpecker
Caribbean Elaenia
Gray Kingbird
Caribbean Martin
Red-legged Thrush
Northern Mockingbird
Pearly-eyed Thrasher
Yellow Warbler
Adelaide’s Warbler
Bananaquit
Yellow-faced Grassquit
Black-faced Grassquit
Puerto Rican Bullfinch
Greater Antillean Grackle
Shiny Cowbird
Venezuelan Troupial
House Sparrow
Bronze Mannikin
That’s 25 life birds in a week, not counting the Bronze Mannikin. I finally crossed the 500 mark with Sandwich Terns on Thursday. 500’s actually not that big a number, especially when international destinations are included. It’s more of a milestone for the “ABA area” (i.e. continental U.S., Canada, and Alaska.). Within that region I’m only at about 425 or so.
Previous Topic
