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Sunday, May 24. 2009

Name these common Florida birds

Reader LS took these photos in FL last week. Can you name them?



 




 

Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation at 10:31 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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Brown Pelican, Great Blue Heron, plunging Brown Pelican, Laughing Gull. These birds are also common on the Texas gulf coast, as you might expect.
#1 Papa Rod on 2009-05-24 10:55 (Reply)
Not too tough. Pretty birdies, though.
#1.1 bd on 2009-05-24 13:26 (Reply)
Common in my Alabama Gulf Coast home, too. In fact, that looks like the gull that laughed at me at the grocery store yesterday.
#2 Lunacy on 2009-05-24 15:12 (Reply)
I saw #4 when I was disking cornstalks here in Nebraska a couple of weeks ago. There are at least a couple of pairs of # 2 that nest in this area every year.
#3 feeblemind on 2009-05-24 18:48 (Reply)
Shoot, for a moment I thought you were just posting pictures from my back yard! Classic Texas Coastal Bend birds. The beautiful brown pelicans are surprisingly colorful, a favorite subject of local wildlife artists. They came back from a very serious threat from DDS and are now numerous on the coast.
#4 Texan99 on 2009-05-25 11:09 (Reply)
Brown Pelican is the state bird of Louisiana. They are making a big comeback along LA coast with several breeding colonies on some of the barrier islands.
#5 Dave on 2009-05-25 13:46 (Reply)
We don't have mountains in Fla .
#6 flaboy on 2009-05-26 01:55 (Reply)

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