{"id":31142,"date":"2023-01-02T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flgcc.com\/?p=31142"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:54:53","slug":"audubon-bird-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/02\/audubon-bird-count\/florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Audubon Bird Count"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the holidays, I joined my friend Art Nadelman for the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count. The event takes place across all North America and parts of South America. This was the 123rd Christmas Bird Count. We were assigned a specific area to record. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We started around 7:30 am and completed around 12:30 pm. We managed to see 1300 birds across 62 species! The most numerous birds were the robins that are migrating through the area now. We counted almost 500 and likely missed more. Many of them will stay here until early March before beginning their journey back north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/221217-4-robin-landing-in-pepper-bushes.jpg\" alt=\"Robin Landing In Pepper Bushes\" class=\"wp-image-99648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/221217-4-robin-landing-in-pepper-bushes.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/221217-4-robin-landing-in-pepper-bushes-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/221217-4-robin-landing-in-pepper-bushes-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/221217-4-robin-landing-in-pepper-bushes-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/221217-4-robin-landing-in-pepper-bushes-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/221217-4-robin-landing-in-pepper-bushes-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>American Robin Landing in Brazilian Pepper Bushes<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Attached is an article about the Audubon Bird Count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audubon.org\/conservation\/science\/christmas-bird-count\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.audubon.org\/conservation\/science\/christmas-bird-count<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A few more pictures from this journey are featured below. For a larger selection of photos, go to the galleries listed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/gary-walker-photography\/galleries\/nature\/birds\/songbirds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Songbirds<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/gary-walker-photography\/galleries\/nature\/birds\/warblers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Warblers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the holidays, I joined my friend Art Nadelman for the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count. The event takes place across all North America and parts of South America. This was the 123rd Christmas Bird Count. We were assigned a specific area to record. We started around 7:30 am and completed around 12:30 pm. We&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2743],"tags":[2774],"class_list":["post-31142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida","tag-nature"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/221217-4-robin-picking-at-brazilian-pepper-berries.jpg?ver","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109094,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31142\/revisions\/109094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}