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haliaeetus leucocephalus

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Forest Lawn Cemetery is a popular place. People are just dying to spend time there.  For a variety of raptors, including several different hawks, kestrals, osprey, screech owls and the magnificent albeit familiar-to-most-folks bald eagle, it is a great place to call home. The scientific name gives you clues about the structure of the bald [...]

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From the Editor

From the Editor – November 2011

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Autumn has begun here in Florida bringing in those long awaited migratory birds for bird watchers and photographers as well as the cooler weather we much appreciate. The summer was very hot and not much birding activity unless you are an earlier riser and can get out there and beat the heat. Snow has already [...]

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Birding Hotspots

Carillon Boardwalk – St. Pete

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Tucked away inside the surrounding buildings sits a small lake that wraps around about a mile in circumference. Google this address 900 Carillon Parkway, St. Petersburg, FL to get the exact location. At the edge of this lake, a boardwalk that covers the edge of the water nestled next to a marshy area that is [...]

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Migratory Birds

The Warblers are Back!

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Most any place you go this time of year in Florida the sounds of sweet little chirping notes from the many small migratory birds can be heard and seen. They flutter around between the tree branches looking for a meal and sing away in the process. Each year I am looking for a species I [...]

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Books in Review

Florida Bird Journal

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Florida Bird Journal is a comprehensive how-to book to help birdwatchers and photographers alike maximize and organize their experience. This page-by-page organizational journal helps you document species, time and place, weather conditions and leaves plenty of room for personal notations. Florida Bird Journal includes a list of Florida birds, and some photography, program and equipment [...]

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Bird of the Month for November: Northern Bobwhite

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The Northern Bobwhite, more often than not, can be heard before it is seen.  They get their name from the male’s call:  “bob-WHITE!” or “bob-bob WHITE!”  The Northern Bobwhite, like many in the Quail family, has been hunted as a game bird.  This is highly managed in some states in order to decrease their decline.  [...]

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