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| Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
My truncated October Big Day was very pleasing. I left home at 5:15 am for my first stop at
Harrison’s Point, St. Lucy, getting there at 5:55 am. My target birds were Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata), Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus), and Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus). After
spending close to an hour I only saw one of my targeted birds, the Yellow-billed Cuckoo. So it was off to my next stop, a private
location further north, and to my surprise the other two birds were waiting for
me there, along with another rarity, a pair of Northern Shovelers(Spatula clypeata). That ended
my birding for the morning. Just after
midday, I made two more stops, one of which resulted in another rarity, a
juvenile Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinica).
In the four stops I made, I recorded 42 species. See the checklist below.
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck - Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Blue-winged Teal - Spatula discors
- Northern Shoveler - Spatula clypeata
- Scaly-naped Pigeon - Patagioenas squamosa
- Eurasian Collared-Dove - Streptopelia decaocto
- Common Ground-Dove - Columbina Passerina
- Zenaida Dove - Zenaida aurita
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Coccyzus americanus
- Green-throated Carib - Eulampis holosericeus
- Antillean Crested Hummingbird - Orthorhyncus cristatus
- Common Gallinule - Gallinula galeata
- Purple Gallinule - Porphyrio martinica
- American Golden-Plover - Pluvialis dominica
- Semipalmated Plover - Charadrius semipalmatus
- Least Sandpiper - Calidris minutilla
- Pectoral Sandpiper - Calidris melanotos
- Semipalmated Sandpiper - Calidris pusilla
- Spotted Sandpiper - Actitis macularius
- Solitary Sandpiper - Tringa solitaria
- Greater Yellowlegs - Tringa melanoleuca
- Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes
- Magnificent Frigatebird - Fregata magnificens
- Snowy Egret - Egretta thula
- Cattle Egret - Bubulcus ibis
- Green Heron - Butorides virescens
- Glossy Ibis - Plegadis falcinellus
- Belted Kingfisher - Megaceryle alcyon
- Rose-ringed Parakeet - Psittacula krameri
- Caribbean Elaenia - Elaenia martinica
- Gray Kingbird - Tyrannus dominicensis
- Black-whiskered Vireo - Vireo altiloquus
- Caribbean Martin - Progne dominicensis
- Barn Swallow - Hirundo rustica
- Bobolink - Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Shiny Cowbird - Molothrus bonariensis
- Carib Grackle - Quiscalus lugubris
- Yellow Warbler - Setophaga petechia
- Blackpoll Warbler - Setophaga striata
- Grassland Yellow-Finch - Sicalis luteola
- Bananaquit - Coereba flaveola
- Barbados Bullfinch - Loxigilla barbadensis
- Black-faced Grassquit - Melanospiza bicolor
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| Glossy Ibis |
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| Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
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| Bobolink |
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| Blackpoll Warbler |
