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Natural Resources Committee – Birds at Maple Leaf

Bald Eagle – Maple Leaf Habitat

Maple Leaf is in Charlotte County on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Charlotte County is rapidly becoming one the hottest birding destinations in Southwest Florida. In 2017 birders in Charlotte County reported observing 259 different species.  In the first 3 months of 2018, 196 species were reported.  The Peace River Audubon Society http://peaceriveraudubon.org/ conducts regular birding tours, details about which are published in the Charlotte Sun.  Another great local resource is the Peace River Wildlife Center http://peaceriverwildlifecenter.org/  where injured wild birds are cared for and kept if they can not be released back into the wild.  With its diversity of habitats Maple Leaf is home to a wide variety of birds and, just like our human resident, some birds are seasonal residents and other are year-rounders.

The best place to bird is on our Golf Course, an Audubon Certified Cooperative Sanctuary. That said the lakes and ponds and, quite literally just about any back yard, afford great opportunities to observe a wide variety of species.  In 2018 Maple Leaf received an Audubon International Green Neighborhood Award.

Since we began keeping records in 2012, 93 different species of birds have been observed on or over Maple Leaf.  These species include all the large wading birds found in Southwest Florida, many of them nesting in the Park, as well as many species of raptors and song birds. During fall and spring migration a wide variety of warblers and other migrating species are present.

Maple Leaf participates in the Cornell Laboratories of Ornithology’s eBird Program.  This international Citizen Science Project permits participants to submit data on bird observations and to subsequently manipulate this data to produce historical reports on bird observations.   Click on links for our  Maple Leaf eBird lists  2012-2016 , 2017, 2018, 2019 , 2020,2021 and 2022.

Why not come visit and bird with us!

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References

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• Check out this website produced by local photographer, Tom Zinneman: http://www.zinnysworld.com/

   

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