The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 9, 1954, Page 5

Many Species Of B irds Come To T. be Key West Area As Winier Visitors Many Robins Are Wintering Here This Year j 1 jthe day, Three of the four enum- list those known to have been here jerators started out before daylight, since December 1. jintent on seeing the barn owl] Wading birds, Waterfowl and |(which did not. appear that day)|/Hawks — Pied-billed grebe, brown and stayed until after dark to count pelican, double-crested cormorant, the chuck-wills-widow in the Sanc-|magnificent frigate bird (man-o- RANC! HAM! jtwary on Stock Island. jwar), great blue heron (Wards), macho a C wo ; The unexpected was an Ameri- great white heron, American eg- ri A Shean Soc y jcan bittern, a dead bird, picked up ret, snowy egret, tri-colored her: my {by George Stevenson. The most (Louisiana), little blue heron, y Eighty-seven species of {numerous birds were laughing low-crowned night heron, Ameri birds are known to be wint-|Sulls (567) and royal terns (182)..can bittern, a sant ping Ring-billed gulls outnumbered the! blue-winged teal, r reasted mer- ering in the Key West area herring gulls four-to-one. It was/ganser, turkey vulture, broad-wing- at this time. Of this number encouraging to find three great ed aes eld eogte, —, es ii white herons on the Island. grine falcon (duck hawk), sparrow rat BOs uperion are exe) ee vies tae of bieds bare leltowy and coot manent residents, 50 are due in part to the help received Shorebirds, Gulls and Terns. — winter visitors from the from visiting bird students and to nintek Boren frag taal ampoat north and seven are western the good work of some of our mem- lied plover, y turnstone, com- A jbers. Ada Smith, of the District of mon snipe, spotted sandpiper, wil- birds. |Cofumbia Audubon Society, spent let, greater yellow-legs, lesser yel- Robins have. come down ‘the entire month of January mak- How es least learner: — ing observations in and arow y dowitcher, semipalmated sa‘ ‘ iy eraster umabers ean base West and turned up several new er, sanderling, herring gull, ring- ual. There must be several birds. Other visitors were Mr. and billed gull, laughing gull, Bonapar- hundred feeding in the vari-|Mrs. J. D. Thompson, Je. fom te's gull es as els |Amarillo, Texas, Mr. and Mrs. Ce-) joves throu: ireos — Mourn- a ge Berea the bol Appleberry and Stephen Mes- ing dove, ground dove, white-wing-| land. In recent years they |senger from Wilmington, North Ca-led dove, chuck-will's-widow, ruby- have been quite scarce and rolina, Dorothy Hartman, New throated agg i ing: | i % |Hope, Penna. and Mr. and Mrs. fisher, western bird, yellow-| — — pando, neh wage sev Elderkin, Jamestown N./bellied sapsucker, scissors-tailed| y flycatcher, house wren, phobe, tree| We have seen one eastern towhee; Mrs, Charles W. Cobb, of Cape|swallow, mockingbird, catbird, ro- (the only published record of this\coq and St. Petersburg, has re- bin, blue-gray gnatcatcher, cedar| bird in Key West dates back to turned and intends to make her waxwing, starling, white-eyed vi-| 1980), Other birds known to be home in Key West. Mrs. Cobb is reo, yellow-throated vireo. here and of which there are no well informed on what goes on in| Warblers — Black and white published records are Brewer's ornithological circles and has giv- warbler, orange-crowned warbler, blackbird, starling, black-throated!en yaluable assistance to the local parula warbler, Cape May gray, black-capped and orange- group. Mrs. D. W. Hundley, 2107|warbler, myrtle warbler, black- crowned warblers. \Staples Avenue, has made an out-'throated gray warbler, yellow- The anual Christmas bird count|standing contribution to the list. |throater warbler, chestnut sided was taken on January 2, which re-| In view of the many requests for | warbler, baybreasted warbler, sulted in a list of 61 species and an|information regarding birds to be!prairie warbler, palm warbler, estimated 1528 individual birds for|seen during the winter season, we ovenbird, common yellow-throat, precn cacees ae = jblack-capped warbler, redstart. 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