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From: pxs@lanl.gov (patricia snider)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: birding on the Keys
Keywords: places
Message-ID: <48311@lanl.gov>
Date: 11 Apr 90 03:18:14 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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One of the best places on the keys to bird is on Sugarloaf Key.  This is
the place for Mangrove Cuckoos.  A map was published on it years ago by
the A.B.A.  Jim Lane has one of his bird finding guides on florida.
Also there was a book in magazine form on where to bird in the state.
It might could be picked up while there.  The A.B.A has bird books for
sale on places all over the country.
	Another nice place is John Pennekamp Park where you go over the
only U.S. coral reef in a glass-bottom boat.  On the way out you go
thru mangrove swamp and over the Gulf.  And there are beaches to drive
along in Key West.  Or you can take the sea-plane out to the Dry Tortugas.
Only place where there are Noddy Terns, Sooty Terns, and an occasional
booby.  Fort Jefferson is worth seeing out there, too.
	The main specialties of the area are the White-crowned Pigeons,
Gray Kingbirds, Black-whiskered Vireos, etc. In summer there are the
Antillean Nighthawks, though we saw them at the Holiday Inn in Homestead,
too.  And there is always the chance of a real rarity.  Tune in to the
National and Florida Rare Bird Alerts before you go.

Pat Snider
2435-C 45th Street
Los Alamos, NM  87544