Florida is a birders paradise.  Nearly 500 native species as well as established exotics like the red-whiskered bulbul and the monk parakeet can be seen in the state.  You can easily see cranes, pelicans, caracara, swallow-tailed kites, tropical seabirds and many other species… just bring your binoculars!

• Pelicans, Cormorants, and Anhinga

          Eastern Brown Pelican

          White Pelican

          Double-crested Cormorant

          Anhinga

          Magnificent Frigatebird

• Egrets, Storks, Spoonbills and Ibis

          White Ibis

          Roseate Spoonbill

          Great Egret

         Yellow-crowned Night Heron

          Great Blue Heron

          American Bittern

          Flamingo

          Wood Stork

          Cattle Egret

          Little Blue Heron

          Reddish Egret

          Green Heron

          Tricolored Heron

          Snowy Egret

• Waterfowl

          Wood Duck

          Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

          Fulvous Whistling-Duck

          Muscovy Duck

          Mottled Duck

          Blue-winged Teal

          Northern Pintail

• Birds of prey – Eagles, hawks, vultures

          Bald Eagle

          Osprey

          Swallow-tailed Kite

          Crested Caracara

          Black Vulture

          Turkey Vulture

          Red-shouldered Hawk

          Snail Kite

• Shorebirds

          Dunlin

          Ruddy Turnstone

          Red Knot

          Semipalmated Sandpiper

         American Oystercatcher

• Gulls, terns and skimmers

          Least Tern

          Royal Tern

          Ring-billed Gull

          Laughing Gull

          Black Skimmer

          Snipe

• Cranes and rails

          Sandhill Crane

          Whooping Crane

          Clapper Rail

          Sora Rail

          Limpkin

          Common Moorhen

          American Coot

          Purple Gallinule

          Pied-billed Grebe

• Turkey and quail

          Wild Turkey

          Northern Bobwhite Quail

• Owls

          Burrowing Owl

          Great Horned Owl

          Barred Owl

          Barn Owl

          Eastern screech Owl

• Crows and Jays

          Scrub Jay

          Blue Jay

• Pigeons and Doves

          White-crowned Pigeon

          Common Ground Dove

          Eurasian Collared Dove

          Rock Dove (Pigeon)

• Woodpeckers

          Red-cockaded Woodpecker

          Red-bellied Woodpecker

          Northern Flicker

          Pileated Woodpecker

          Red-headed Woodpecker

          Downy Woodpecker

• Thrushes, Warblers, and Sparrows

          Chipping Sparrow

          American Robin

          Brown Thrasher

          Northern Mockingbird

          Northern Cardinal

          American Redstart

          Palm Warbler

          Pine Warbler

          Red-winged Blackbird

          Brown-headed Cowbird

          Bobolink

          Orchard Oriole

          Boat-tailed Grackle

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