Birding in Florida, USA

$1,890 includes lodging for seven nights and birding over
six days. This includes the services and expenses of the
bird guide and driver. Other included services are travel
planning and transportation services (including the van
and gasoline). This includes lodging for seven nights for
one person (and assuming you have a spouse or
roommate). Breakfast is included with the lodging we
have booked. This price is per person and assumes a
shared room (with another roommate or spouse).

Single accommodations are available for an additional
$490.

Not Included in Pricing:

The trip price does not include the flight to Miami,
meals (lunch and suppers) and tips. You should
budget between $300 to $400 for your flight.
Budget another $120 to $180 for meals. Meals
cover six lunches ($8 to $12, averaging $10) and six
suppers ($12 to $20, averaging $16), and you
should feel free to spend more if you want to.
Tips are not included.
See other typical exclusions on our pricing sheet.

Note: Please contact us prior to booking your flight, or
you may end up paying additional lodging and transfer
costs. However, most flights coming in on April 14 and
leaving in the morning on April 21 will do just fine.

Florida and the Keys

Brief Overview of the Trip

South Florida in April is a great time to visit as migrants
add to the resident birds and most of the special breeding
birds have arrived. The everglades, pine forests, prairies,
cypress and mangrove swamps and keys habitat types will
produce a great variety of species.

Starting in the pine/palmetto palm forest for Red-cockaded
Woodpecker and Bachman’s Sparrow we will proceed to
cypress swamp and marsh at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
and Everglades NP for warblers, herons, egrets, Swallow-
tailed and Snail Kites. The specialties of the Keys such as
White-crowned Pigeon, Gray Kingbird, Antillean
Nighthawk, Black-whiskered Vireo and if we are lucky
Mangrove Cuckoo will come next. On the day boat trip to
Dry Tortugas we will see seabird colonies of Sooty Tern
and Brown Noddy and on Fort Jefferson many tired
warblers, thrushes, buntings, flycatchers etc resting on
their migration north. Finally we finish in the Miami area to
search for the exotic parrots which have become
naturalized and in some cases “countable “.

Day 1: Flight arrivals into Miami airport

Day 2: Birding Port Charlotte, Babcock-Webb Wildlife
Management Area and Punta Gorda

Day 3: Travel to Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp, Florida
City to Everglades

Day 4: Bird Everglades National Park including
Anhinga Trail, Mahogany Hammock Trail and mudflats
at Flamigo. Drive to Key West and look for Antillean
Nighthawk.

Day 5: Birding Keys all day after boarding boat for Dry
Tortugas and Fort Jefferson. Likely most exciting
birding day of trip.

Day 6: Birding along Keys and looking for local
specialities as we head towards Miami. Late afternoon
check parrots coming in for roost in various Miami locales.

Day 7: Bird Miami area for local exotics and additional
birds at Loxahatchee wetlands and/or Wakodahatchee
wetlands.

Day 8: Departure: Bird in morning for anything we may
have missed. Flights out after 2 PM from Miami.

Brief Itinerary