I am traveling from my home in NY to Englewood, FL for a week later this month (March). I'll be taking several boat trips that depart Englewood and travel up to 30 miles offshore. What should I keep my eye out for? Never been as far south as Florida and I've only...birded?...engaged in birding? rather casually in NY and MA.
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Cool, my dad lives in Englewood, I go there on a regular basis to visit him.
Pelagic birding in the Gulf of Mexico can be pretty boring- I went on a winter pelagic trip once from southern Texas once, and hours would go by without a single sighting, and we never saw any shearwaters or storm-petrels (although they are possible). At the least there should be Northern Gannets plus Pomarine and Parasitic Jaegers. I can't recall offhand which shearwaters occur in the Gulf in winter, but there are some.
Land birding should be pretty exciting though. Shamrock Park, about 20-30 minutes north of Englewood, is a good place to find the endemic Florida Scrub-Jay.
Pelagic birding in the Gulf of Mexico can be pretty boring- I went on a winter pelagic trip once from southern Texas once, and hours would go by without a single sighting, and we never saw any shearwaters or storm-petrels (although they are possible). At the least there should be Northern Gannets plus Pomarine and Parasitic Jaegers. I can't recall offhand which shearwaters occur in the Gulf in winter, but there are some.
Land birding should be pretty exciting though. Shamrock Park, about 20-30 minutes north of Englewood, is a good place to find the endemic Florida Scrub-Jay.
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Pelagic birding off of the gulf coast of Florida is terrible. While I was doing pelagic bird surveys in the Gulf of Mexico with NOAA, I spent about a month out in the open gulf. There would be many days where we did not have a single bird at all. That said, there is always the chance you may see something -- we recorded a Masked Booby off Louisiana as well as Great and Audubon's Shearwaters off Pensacola, Florida.
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