Monday, August 1, 2011

New Photo Adventure- South Florida w/ Marvin Bouknight & Eric Horan

 If you want your bird sightings and /or photographed birds list to grow by leaps and bounds, come join Marvin and I early  November this year as we explore a 12,000-acre bird sanctuary in South Florida.  Below is a list of birds sighted over the last few years -  185 species and counting.   I've listed them below in a format that you can print and bring with you! 


               BIRD SIGHTING / PHOTOGRAPHY OPPORTUNTY AT DEVIL'S GARDEN
                                                           SOUTH FLORIDA

WATERFOWL
__ Black-bellied Whistling-Duck__ Fulvous Whistling-Duck__ Greater White-fronted Goose__ Snow Goose__ Wood Duck__ Gadwall__ Eurasian Wigeon__ American Wigeon__ Mallard__ Mottled Duck__ Blue-winged Teal__ Cinnamon Teal__ Northern Shoveler__ Northern Pintail__ Green-winged Teal__ Canvasback__ Redhead__ Ring-necked Duck__ Lesser Scaup__ Hooded Merganser__ Red-breasted Merganser__ Ruddy Duck 

QUAIL
__ Northern Bobwhite__ Wild Turkey

LOONS and GREBES
__ Pied-billed Grebe 

FLAMINGOS
__ American Flamingo

PELICANS, CORMORANTS and ALLIES
__ American White Pelican__ Double-crested Cormorant__ Great Comorant__ Anhinga

HERONS, IBIS, STORKS
__ American Bittern__ Least Bittern__ Great Blue Heron__ Great Blue Heron       (White Morph aka  Great White Heron)__ Great Egret__ Snowy Egret__ Little Blue Heron__ Tricolored Heron__ Cattle Egret__ Green Heron__ Black-crowned Night-Heron__ Yellow-crowned Night-Heron__ White Ibis__ Glossy Ibis__ Roseate Spoonbill__ Wood Stork

VULTURES, DIURNAL RAPTORS, FALCONS
__ Black Vulture__ Turkey Vulture__ Osprey__ Swallow-tailed Kite__ White-tailed Kite__ Snail Kite__ Bald Eagle__ Northern Harrier__ Sharp-shinned Hawk__ Cooper’s Hawk__ Red-shouldered Hawk__ Short-tailed Hawk__ Swainson’s Hawk__ Red-tailed Hawk__ Crested Caracara__ American Kestrel__ Merlin__ Peregrine Falcon

RAILS, CRANES and ALLIES
__ King Rail__ Sora__ Purple Swamphen (Exotic)__ Purple Gallinule
__ Common Moorhen__ American Coot__ Limpkin__  Sandhill Crane

SHOREBIRDS
__ Black-bellied Plover__ American Golden-Plover__ Semipalmated Plover__ Killdeer__ Black-necked Stilt__ American Avocet__ Solitary Sandpiper__ Spotted Sandpiper__ Greater Yellowlegs__ Willet__ Lesser Yellowlegs__ Marbled Godwit__ Ruddy Turnstone__ Sanderling__ Semipalmated Sandpiper__ Western Sandpiper__ Least Sandpiper__ White-rumped Sandpiper__ Pectoral Sandpiper__ Dunlin__ Stilt Sandpiper__ Ruff__ Short-billed Dowitcher__ Long-billed Dowitcher__ Wilson’s Snipe__ Wilson’s Phalarope

GULLS, TERNS, SKIMMERS
__ Bonaparte’s Gull__ Laughing Gull__ Ring-billed Gull__ Herring Gull__ Lesser Black-backed Gull__ Great Black-backed Gull__ Gull-billed Tern__ Caspian Tern__ Black Tern__ Forster’s Tern__ Royal Tern__ Sandwich Tern__ Black Skimmer

PIGEONS, DOVES
__ Rock Pigeon__ Eurasian Collared Dove__ White-winged Dove__ Mourning Dove__ Common Ground Dove

CUCKOOS
__Yellow-billed Cuckoo__ Smooth-billed Ani

OWLS
__ Barn Owl__Eastern Screech-Owl__ Burrowing Owl__ Barred Owl

NIGHTJARS
__ Common Nighthawk

KINGFISHERS, ALLIES
__ Belted Kingfisher


WOODPECKERS
__ Red-bellied Woodpecker

TYRANT FLYCATCHERS
__ Eastern Phoebe__ Great Crested Flycatcher__ Tropical Kingbird__ Cassin’s Kingbird__ Western Kingbird__ Eastern Kingbird__ Gray Kingbird__ Scissor-tailed Flycatcher


 SHRIKES, VIREOS
__ Loggerhead Shrike__ White-eyed Vireo__ Blue-headed Vireo


JAYS, CROWS
__ Blue Jay__ American Crow

MARTINS, SWALLOW
__ Northern Rough-winged  Swallow__ Purple Martin__ Tree Swallow
__ Bank Swallow__ Barn Swallow__ Cliff Swallow__ Cave Swallow

WRENS
__ Carolina Wren__ House Wren__ Sedge Wren__ Marsh Wren

KINGLETS, GNATCATCHERS
__ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

THRUSHES
__ American Robin


CATBIRDS, MOCKINGBIRDS, THRASHERS
__Gray Catbird__ Northern Mockingbird__ Brown Thrasher

STARLINGS, MYNAS
__ European Starling


WAXWINGS
__ Cedar Waxwing


WOOD-WARBLERS
__Yellow Warbler__Magnolia Warbler__Black-throated Blue Warbler
__Yellow-rumped Warbler__Yellow-throated Warbler__Pine Warbler
__Prairie Warbler__Palm Warbler__Blackpoll Warbler__Black-and-white Warbler__American Redstart__Ovenbird__Northern Waterthrush__Common Yellowthroat


 SPARROWS and other EMBERIZIDS
__ Eastern Towhee __ Savannah Sparrow__Grasshopper Sparrow
__Swamp Sparrow

CARDINALS, GROSBEAKS and ALLIES
__Northern Cardinal__Blue Grosbeak__Indigo Bunting__Painted Bunting

BLACKBIRDS
__Bobolink__Red-winged Blackbird__Eastern Meadowlark__Common Grackle__Boat-tailed Grackle__Brown-headed Cowbird__ Orchard Oriole