Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.It is bordered by the Gulf of Mexico to the west,the states of Alabama and Georgia to the north,The Atlantic Ocean to the east and Florida Bay,The Florida Keys and The Straits of Florida to the south.The state capital is Tallahassee and its largest city is Jacksonville.Florida is a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico,The Atlantic Ocean,Florida Bay,The Florida Keys and the Straits of Florida.Florida also has the longest coastline in the country.Florida is considered one of the best places in the United States to go birding.It has been said that the worst time to go birding is in the summer and the best time is fall and spring migration.It has overseen over 500 species of birds.Florida also has a few exotic species usually seen in Miami and in Everglades National Park.Some include a vast number of exotic parrots,Common Myna and Hill Myna.The Spot-breasted Oriole (which was introduced in 1949 and is now a permanent resident established from Miami to Fort Lauderdale),The Red-whiskered Bulbul,Muscovy Duck,Purple Swamphen and so on.It has also birds that can't be seen anywhere else including Snail Kite,Smooth-billed Ani,Gray Kingbird,Black-whiskered Vireo and its only endemic species:the Florida Scrub-Jay and the White-crowned Pigeon which occurs in The Florida Keys and some birds from the Caribbean Islands come to South Florida by accident causing huge uproars in the birding community.Florida also serves as a rest stop for migrating birds traveling to South America or back to North America and some native birds from the mainland end up here in accident

Known places

 * Key West
 * Miami
 * Fort Lauderdale
 * Everglades National Park
 * Dry Tortugas National Park
 * Biscayne National Park
 * Clewiston
 * STA-5
 * Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge
 * Cape Canaveral
 * West Palm Beach
 * Green Cay,Wellington
 * Corkscrew Swamp Audubon Sanctuary
 * St. Augustine
 * Fort Jefferson
 * The Florida Keys
 * Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge