300 SPECIES OF GEORGIA and FLORIDA BIRDS (click on highlighted names for photos) Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Eared Grebe Brown Booby Masked Booby Northern Gannet Magnificent Frigatebird White-tailed Tropicbird Cory's Shearwater
American White Pelican Brown Pelican Anhinga Double-crested Cormorant Great Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great White Heron Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron Green Heron
Reddish Egret Snowy Egret Great Egret Cattle Egret Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron American Bittern
Least Bittern Limpkin
White Ibis Glossy Ibis White-faced Ibis (Feb. 2002, Eufala NWR, GA) Scarlet Ibis Wood Stork Roseate Spoonbill Greater Flamingo Tundra Swan Snow/Blue Goose Ross's Goose Canada Goose
Mottled Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Green-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Bufflehead Lesser Scaup Greater Scaup, 12/18/04, St. Marks NWR Surf Scoter Ring-necked Duck Ruddy Duck Wood Duck Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture Broad-winged Hawk Short-tailed Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Sharp-shinned Hawk Harris's Hawk (accidental/escapee in FL) Northern Harrier
Osprey Bald Eagle juv. Mississippi Kite
Swallow-tailed Kite Snail Kite White-tailed Kite (distant shot, L. Miccosukee, Jefferson Co., FL, Jan, 2001) American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Merlin
Crested Caracara Wild Turkey Ruffed Grouse Northern Bobwhite Sora King Rail Clapper Rail Purple Gallinule Common Moorhen American Coot Sandhill Crane Whooping Crane American Oystercatcher American Avocet Black-necked Stilt Killdeer Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover Snowy Plover Wilson's Plover
Ruddy Turnstone Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Western Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Sanderling Dunlin Red Knot
Lesser Yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs Upland Sandpiper Marbled Godwit Long-billed Curlew Whimbrel
Willet Long-billed Dowitcher Short-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Herring Gull Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull
Black-headed Gull, Tybee Island, GA Mystery Gull, Tybee Island, GA Great Black-backed Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Bonaparte's Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Heerman's Gull (1st winter; March, 2001, Ft. DeSoto) mystery gull at Tallahassee, Tram Rd., Feb. 2002 Common Tern Forster's Tern Royal Tern Caspian Tern Sandwich Tern Gull-billed Tern
Least Tern Sooty Tern Bridled Tern Black Tern Brown Noddy Black Noddy
Black Skimmer
Common Ground Dove Mourning Dove
White-winged Dove Eurasian Collared Dove Rock Dove ("Cuban racing pigeon") White-crowned Pigeon Monk Parakeet Budgerigar Barn Owl Barred Owl Eastern Screech Owl Great-horned Owl Burrowing Owl Short-eared Owl, Cuban Race Snowy Owl (Florida's first--December 1999) Whip-poor-will
Common Nighthawk Nighthawk spp. (you make the call)
Belted Kingfisher
Ruby-throated Hummingbird Black-chinned Hummingbird (Tallahassee, FL) Black-chinned Hummingbird (Valdosta, GA) Calliope Hummingbird (female, Lilburn, GA, Feb. 2002) Broad-billed Hummingbird (Macon, Feb. 2002, Georgia's first record) Rufous Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird, incl. hand-held Yellow-billed Cuckoo Mangrove Cuckoo Smooth-billed Ani Groove-billed Ani Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Red-cockaded Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Eastern Kingbird Western Kingbird Gray Kingbird Loggerhead Kingbird Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Great-crested Flycatcher Ash-throated Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe
Acadian Flycatcher Vermilion Flycatcher Eastern Wood-pewee Purple Martin Barn Swallow Tree Swallow Cliff Swallow Cave Swallow (Cutler Ridge, FL) Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow American Crow Fish Crow
Florida Scrub Jay Blue Jay Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Brown-headed Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Red-breasted Nuthatch Loggerhead Shrike American Pipit Cedar Waxwing Carolina Wren House Wren Sedge Wren Marsh Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Ruby-crowned Kinglet Golden-crowned Kinglet Horned Lark
Common Myna Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Gray Catbird Wood Thrush Hermit Thrush Swainson's Thrush Veery Eastern Bluebird American Robin Red-eyed Vireo Blue-headed Vireo White-eyed Vireo
Thick-billed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Black-whiskered Vireo Prothonotary Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Cape May Warbler Canada Warbler Magnolia Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Prairie Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow Warbler (Mangrove) Yellow Warbler Kentucky Warbler Hooded Warbler Black-and-White Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Worm-eating Warbler American Redstart Northern Parula Swainson's Warbler Common Yellowthroat Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Yellow-breasted Chat Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Western Spindalis (Striped-headed Tanager) Northern Cardinal Baltimore Oriole Bullock's Oriole Orchard Oriole
Spot-breasted Oriole Blue Grosbeak Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Painted Bunting Eastern Meadowlark Brown-headed Cowbird Shiny Cowbird Bronzed Cowbird Common Grackle Boat-tailed Grackle Eastern Towhee Bachman's Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow Vesper Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Lark Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow Seaside Sparrow Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow sp. Sharp-tailed Sparrow sp. (you make the call) Dark-eyed Junco Snow Bunting Dickcissel Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Yellow-headed Blackbird Evening Grosbeak
Pine Siskin House Finch Purple Finch Red Crossbill American Goldfinch House Sparrow