The Bottom Line
We found 291 bird species and one hybrid on Tropical Audubon Society regular birding trips during the 2002-3 birding season (August--May). The list includes 9 species that are not countable under ABA listing rules. These birds are marked as "exotic", "feral" or "reintroduced", as seems appropriate. It also includes 10 species that are considered established, but non-native. We presume that the ABA checklist committee believes the Yellow-chevroned Parakeet is ABA-countable. These non-native species are not countable under Florida Fish and Wildlife rules for the Wings over Florida certificate program. Our list includes 282 ABA-countable species and 272 FFW-countable species. An additional 19 species were seen on the Bahamas trip in March. These 19 are listed separately at the end.
The List
Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Cory's Shearwater Greater Shearwater Audubon's Shearwater Wilson's Storm-Petrel Masked Booby Brown Booby Northern Gannet American White Pelican Brown Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Anhinga Magnificent Frigatebird American Bittern Least Bittern Great Blue Heron (includes Great White Heron) Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Reddish Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron White Ibis Glossy Ibis Roseate Spoonbill Wood Stork Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Black-bellied Whistling Duck Snow Goose Muscovy Duck (feral) Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon Mallard Mottled Duck Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Common Eider Surf Scoter Oldsquaw Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Osprey Swallow-tailed Kite White-tailed Kite Snail Kite Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Short-tailed Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Crested Caracara American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Northern Bobwhite Clapper Rail King Rail Virginia Rail Sora Purple Gallinule Purple Swamphen (exotic) Common Moorhen American Coot Limpkin Sandhill Crane Whooping Crane (reintroduced) Black-bellied Plover Snowy Plover Wilson's Plover Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover Killdeer American Oystercatcher Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Willet Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Laughing Gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Slaty-backed Gull Great Black-backed Gull Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Royal Tern Sandwich Tern Roseate Tern Arctic Tern Forster's Tern Least Tern Bridled Tern Sooty Tern Black Tern Brown Noddy Black Noddy Black Skimmer Rock Dove (non-native) White-crowned Pigeon Eurasian Collared Dove (non-native) White-winged Dove Mourning Dove Common Ground-Dove Monk Parakeet (non-native) Mitred Parakeet (exotic) Yellow-chevroned Parakeet (non-native) White-winged Parakeet (non-native) Chestnut-fronted Macaw (exotic) Blue and Yellow Macaw (exotic) White-fronted Parrot (exotic) Yellow-billed Cuckoo Mangrove Cuckoo Smooth-billed Ani Barn Owl Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Burrowing Owl Barred Owl Short-eared Owl Lesser Nighthawk Common Nighthawk Chuck-will's-widow Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Rufous/Allen's Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Red-cockaded Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Acadian Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Vermilion Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Brown-crested Flycatcher Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird Gray Kingbird Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Loggerhead Shrike White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Black-whiskered Vireo Blue Jay Florida Scrub Jay American Crow Fish Crow Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Cave Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown-headed Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Sedge Wren Marsh Wren Red-whiskered Bulbul (non-native) Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling (non-native) Common Myna (exotic) Hill Myna (exotic) Spraque's Pipit Cedar Waxwing Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Swainson's Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Bachman's Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow Le Conte's Sparrow Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Seaside Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Lapland Longspur Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Painted Bunting Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird Boat-tailed Grackle Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Spot-breasted Oriole (non-native) Baltimore Oriole House Finch (non-native) American Goldfinch House Sparrow (non-native)
Additional Bahamas Birds
Least Grebe Zenaida Dove Key West Quail-Dove Cuban Emerald Bahama Woodstar West-Indian Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Cuban Pewee La Sagra's Flycatcher Loggerhead Kingbird Thick-billed Vireo Bahama Swallow Red-legged Thrush Olive-capped Warbler Bahama Yellowthroat Bananaquit Stripe-headed Tanager Black-faced Grassquit Greater Antillean Bullfinch