Each year, I lead a bird walk in a private community in Key Largo. It is a walk for the residents here. We always get a pretty good showing of migrants on this walk. Also present here are White-winged Parakeets, which seem to have disappeared from the mainland. We do this walk each spring at the end of April, which is near the peak of migration. It was very exciting to get two new birds for this walk: Bahama Mockingbird and Shiny Cowbird. The Bahama Mockingbird is found in the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, the north side of Cuba, and, of all places, Jamaica. The Shiny Cowbird is a species that has moved north out of South America. They can be found with some regularity in South Florida. It was a great day of birding in the springtime.
I added a picture showing that only the tail tip is white on a Bahama Mockingbird.
Brown-headed Cowbird on the left, a male Shiny Cowbird in the middle, and a female Shiny Cowbird on the right.
