Parakeet, Florida. ID help please (1 Viewer)

[Hainan on the fly]

I'm pretty sure this is Nanday Parakeet but wanted to confirm and ask a question. Please advise if there is a better place for it. Do birders typically count a sighting of a non-native species such as my bird on a life list? Relatively new and curious.


Thanks,

Brian

 

[njlarsen]

Do birders typically count a sighting of a non-native species such as my bird on a life list? Relatively new and curious.


Thanks,

Brian

This part of your post probably belongs in birds and birding where there has been several threads similar to this topic.

The main listing aid in the US is ebird. Their current treatment of exotic species is to divide them into three groups: Naturalized, provisional, and escapes. The first two of these do count towards your ebird total, the third does not. As far as I know, Nanday Parakeet counts as at least "provisional" in areas around Tampa Bay down to St. Pete, I am unsure in the rest of Florida.

Niels

 

[KC Foggin]

Could it be a Black-hooded Parakeet?

 

[THE_FERN]

Could it be a Black-hooded Parakeet?

Different name, same species

 

[lgonz1008]

Like Fern said, the species is a Nanday Parakeet, it's one of about a dozen species of parakeets found throughout Florida and if you want to argue for countable, it is considered an established exotic within the state, so if you want to count it, feel free too. Pretty sure everyone else who's seen one in the state already has.

 

[THE_FERN]

Do birders typically count a sighting of a non-native species such as my bird on a life list?

Entirely up to you. I would say it's a pretty distinctive, attractive thing and why wouldn't you make a note (I'd also ask "when's the next time you're likely to go to Paraguay to see it in its proper place?"). I wouldn't be too fussed about comparing my list to yours...