At 05:24 AM 04/27/2009 Goodfellow wrote:
Where are the Dry Tortugas? I saw a single Yellow-billed
Cuckoo at Bentsen Park, McAllen, Texas, last week.
The Dry Tortugas are little sandy islands about 70 miles west of
the end of the road in Key West, Florida in the US. They're one
of my favorite places. You get there by boat (or sea plane). One
island has an old fort on it and some trees. The fort has a
fountain in it. That's pretty much the only fresh water for
birds flying across the a large area of the Gulf of Mexico. As a
result, there can be big fallouts of migrant birds in the
spring. I helped lead birding trips there for a while and I too
have seen large numbers of cuckoos (Yellow-billed and some
Black-billed) there. They're not really flocks in the sense that
the birds intended to join together though. They end up together
because there's really no place else for them to go until
conditions are right to head out across the Gulf again.
--
Katrina Knight
Reading, PA, USA
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