Joe, That was a big wishlist, but interesting! From the bar charts in the Pranty book for the 2nd week of November, here's a grouping of selected species (with my own personal thoughts on locations--I've listed locations where I've seen most of these birds--use the Pranty guide): VERY COMMON Eurasian Collared-Dove - Homestead telephone wires; sits on telephone poles (you'll be hard-pressed to miss this one <grin>) FAIRLY COMMON Wood Stork - Central FL; St Cloud, Corkscrew (often sailing around up high) Limpkin - Central FL; Shark Valley, Rainey Slough, Loxahatchee NWR, Corkscrew Monk Parakeet - South FL; Baptist Hospital in Kendall Canary-winged Parakeet - Royal Palm Tennis Courts in Kendall Red-whiskered Bulbul - Royal Palm Tennis Courts in Kendall Bachman's Sparrow - North & Central FL; Gainesville, Three Lakes, Venus UNCOMMON Masked Booby - Keys; Hospital Key in the Tortugas Least Bittern - Central & S FL; Loxahatchee, Shark Valley, Merritt Island Short-tailed Hawk - Central FL; Copeland, Corkscrew Swamp, Venus (dark morphs are more common) Purple Gallinule - Central & S FL; Merritt Island, Loxahatchee, Shark Valley White-crowned Pigeon - S FL & Keys; Snake Bight in Everglades, Key Largo (you'll see a lot before getting a good look--many will fly across the road--you'll hear them fly out of the trees at dawn on Snake Bight Trail) Budgerigar - Central FL; St Petersburg to Hernando Beach Spot-breasted Oriole - South FL; Kendall Shiny Cowbird - S FL; feeders at Briggs Nature Center S of Naples (you didn't include this in your list, but I'll bet you still need it) SELECTED RARITIES *Greater Flamingo - S FL; end of Snake Bight Trail in the Everglades Mangrove Cuckoo - S FL; (a dawn bird) Snake Bight Trail, Eco Pond, upper keys Cave Swallow - N & Central FL; dispersed, difficult to find *White-tailed Tropicbird - S FL; Tortugas (decreasing rpts), bad time of year *Masked Duck - S FL; best bet is Loxahatchee (RBA bird) Bridled Tern - Keys; boat trip to Tortugas, bad time of year Sooty Tern - Keys; boat trip to Tortugas, bad time of year *La Sagra's Flycatcher - S FL; Miami to upper keys (peaks in late Dec) *Stripe-headed Tanager - S FL; Ft Lauderdale parks (peaks in late Dec) * denotes species which I have never seen in Florida (the last 2 birds would be lifers for me, as well as the Flamingo) -Greg Miller Lusby, MD