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BAHAMAS -- GRAND BAHAMA

8 - 12 October 1999

by Anthony White

This is a preliminary trip report of my visit to Grand Bahama Oct. 8-12, 1999. While I was there, I birded with Aileen Bainton, Bruce Hallett, and Woody and Betsy Bracey. The trip was timed to coincide with fall migration. Bruce Hallett and Woody Bracey were also on GB Oct 6 and 7, and their totals are included below. We saw 114 species including 28 warblers and several rarities. We also relocated a small group of brown-headed nuthatches, now rare on GB. We held a big-day in accordance with ABA big-day rules and saw 80 species. (Bruce Hallett returned after hurricane Irene and birding alone saw 92 species in one day.)

Here is a list of the species seen Oct 6 - 12. The first number is the number of days seen (max 7); the second is the highest daily total .
 
Least Grebe 6/10+young
Pied-billed Grebe 6/3
Double-crested Cormorant 3/2
Magnificent Frigatebird 1/1
Great Blue Heron 4/13
Great Egret 4/6
Snowy Egret 3/2
Little Blue Heron 3/2
Cattle Egret 1/3
Green Heron 6/12
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2/5
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1/2
Blue-winged Teal 4/25
Ring-necked Duck 1/1
Turkey Vulture 7/7
Osprey 4/2
Northern Harrier 1/1 Imm.
Red-tailed Hawk 5/3
American Kestrel 4/1
Merlin 6/7
Peregrine 4/3
Virginia Rail 1/2
Purple Gallinule 1/1
Common Moorhen 4/10
American Coot 5/2
Black-bellied Plover 2/1
Greater Yellowlegs 2/1
Lesser Yellowlegs 3/4
Solitary Sandpiper 2/4
Spotted Sandpiper 5/9
Ruddy Turnstone 3/20
Pectoral Sandpiper 2/1
Short-billed Dowitcher 2/2
Common Snipe 1/2
Laughing Gull 3/150+
Royal Tern  6/150+
Rock Dove 7/20
White-crowned Pigeon 7/40+
Eurasian Collared-Dove 7/75
Zenaida Dove 1/4
Mourning Dove 5/6
Common Ground-Dove 7/20
Key West Quail-Dove 1/1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 4/3
Smooth-billed Ani 7/6
Antillean Nighthawk 2/1
Chuck-will's-widow 2/1
Cuban Emerald 7/35
Belted Kingfisher 7/8
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2/1
Hairy Woodpecker 6/10
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1/1
Cuban Pewee 6/5
Lasagra's Flycatcher 5/3
Gray Kingbird 5/7
Loggerhead Kingbird 5/4
Bahama Swallow 1/6
Brown-headed Nuthatch 1/3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 7/12
Swainson's Thrush 1/4
Veery  1/1
Red-legged Thrush 7/20
Gray Catbird 7/8
Northern Mockingbird 7/25
European Starling 5/50
White-eyed Vireo 6/8
Thick-billed Vireo 6/10
Yellow-throated Vireo 1/1
Red-eyed Vireo  7/12
Black-whiskered Vireo  1/2
Blue-winged Warbler  1/1
Tennessee Warbler  1/2
Nashville Warbler 1/1
Northern Parula 6/12
Yellow Warbler 3/2
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1/2
Magnolia Warbler 7/10
Cape May Warbler 7/35
Black-throated Blue Warbler 6/25
Black-throated Green Warbler 1/1
Yellow-throated Warbler 7/12
Olive-capped Warbler 5/5
Pine Warbler 4/8
Prairie Warbler 7/20
Palm Warbler 7/200+
Bay-breasted Warbler 1/1
Blackpoll Warbler 1/1
Black-and-white Warbler 7/25
American Redstart 7/75
Worm-eating Warbler 3/3
Swaison's Warbler 3/4
Ovenbird 7/25
Northern Waterthrush 7/14
Louisiana Waterthrush 1/1
Common Yellowthroat 7/100+
Bahama Yellowthroat 6/4
Hooded Warbler  7/7
Wilson's Warbler 3/1
Bananaquit 7/25
Stripe-headed Tanager 5/8
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1/1
Blue Grosbeak /1
Indigo Bunting 6/30
Dickcissel 1/1
Black-faced Grassquit 7/25
Greater Antillean Bullfinch 5/4
Clay-colored Sparrow 2/1
Bobolink 6/50
Red-winged Blackbird 6/200
Yellow-headed Blackbird  1/1 Adult Female
Brown-headed Cowbird  1/1 Adult Male
Shiny Cowbird 2/2
Baltimore Oriole 5/3
House Sparrow 7/25

Tony White
CdrAWhite@aol.com


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