 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
- Egrets, Storks, Spoonbills and Ibis
White Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Great Egret
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Great Blue Heron
Flamingo
Wood Stork
Cattle Egret
Little Blue Heron
Reddish Egret
Green Heron
Tricolored Heron
Snowy Egret
Wood Duck
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Muscovy Duck
Mottled Duck
- Birds of prey – Eagles, hawks, vultures
Bald Eagle
Osprey
Swallow-tailed Kite
Crested Caracara
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Red-shouldered Hawk
Dunlin
Ruddy Turnstone
American Oystercatcher
- Gulls, terns and skimmers
Least Tern
Royal Tern
Ring-billed Gull
Laughing Gull
Black Skimmer
Sandhill Crane
Whooping Crane
Clapper Rail
Limpkin
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Purple Gallinule
Pied-billed Grebe
Wild Turkey
Northern Bobwhite Quail
Burrowing Owl
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Barn Owl
Eastern screech Owl
Scrub Jay
Blue Jay
White-crowned Pigeon
Common Ground-Dove
Red cockaded woodpecker
Red-bellied woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pleated woodpecker
Red headed woodpecker
Downy woodpecker
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