Winter Birds of Southern Florida

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🗓️ 15 February 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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0:00.0	This is Bert Note.
0:07.4	In North America, it's winter.
0:10.0	Not a bad time to head for the subtropical realms of South Florida
0:14.2	and listen in on some of the region's birds.
0:18.8	Those are the sharp-edged phrases of a white-eyed virio. This small, skulky songbird is a full-time
0:27.9	resident of Florida and might sing at any time of the year. There lurks a more secretive bird in the
0:34.6	Everglades in Florida Keys, the mangrove cuckoo.
0:38.9	Rarely seen, it sings sporadically in winter, but when it does, you'll know it.
0:48.3	A sweeter voice belongs to the spot-breasted Oriole. A sweeter voice belongs to the spot-breasted oriole.
0:58.9	Found in suburban neighborhoods around southeast Florida,
1:02.6	spot-breasted aureoles were first brought to Florida in the 1940s from Central America.
1:10.6	Our final stop takes us to a wooded swamp,
1:14.0	home to one of the continent's most peculiar birds
1:17.3	and with a voice to match.
1:26.0	It's a wading bird called Olympkin.
1:29.5	Tall, brown, long-beaked, its eerie cry is unmistakable.
1:39.0	For bird note, I'm Mary McCann.

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