Florida Life List
Symbols used in the checklist are as follows:
B — A species that is (or formerly was) a breeder in Florida.
BI — Species for which breeding is limited to introduced components of the population.
For example, Mallards winter in Florida in low numbers, but the only Mallards breeding
here are introduced birds that are permanent residents in the state. It is not known
whether Whooping Cranes ever bred in Florida historically. Breeding today is limited to
individuals introduced to create a non-migratory population.
E — Established exotic — nonnative birds with stable or increasing breeding
populations in Florida. [NOTE: Nonnatives are not countable towards Wings Over
Florida certificates.]
† — Extinct
R — Rare birds that should be documented and reported to the Florida Ornithological
Society. Send records to Andy Kratter, Secretary, Archbold Biological Station, P. O. Box
2057, Lake Placid, FL 33862.
LITERATURE CITED
American Ornithologists’ Union. 2007, Forty-eighth Supplement to the American Ornithologists’ Union Check-list of North American Birds.
Auk 124:1109-1115.
American Ornithologists’ Union 1998 Check-list of North American Birds - 7th edition.
American Ornithologists’ Union, Washington, D.C., USA.
Bowman, R. 2000, thirteenth report of the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee: 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000.
Florida Field Naturalist 28:138-160.
Bowman, R. 2004. fourteenth report of the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee: 2001-2002.
Florida Field Naturalist 32:7-33.
Bowman, R. and J. S. Greenlaw 2006. Fifteenth report of the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee: 2003-2005.
Florida Field Naturalist 34:69-102.
Pranty, B. 2005 A Birder’s Guide to Florida.
American Birding Association, Inc. Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Robertson, W. B., Jr. and G. E. Woolfenden. 1992. Florida Bird Species: An Annotated List. Florida Ornithological Society Special publication No. 6, Gainesville, Florida.
Stevenson, H. M. and B. H. Anderson. 1994. The Birdlife of Florida, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
The following list contains 424 species that I have identified in Florida.
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck B
Fulvous Whistling-Duck B
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Ross's Goose R
Brant
Cackling Goose R
Canada Goose BI
Tundra Swan
Muscovy Duck E, B
Wood Duck B
Gadwall
Eurasian Wigeon
American Wigeon
American Black Duck
Mallard BI
Mottled Duck B
Blue-winged Teal B
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
White-cheeked Pintail R
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck B
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup B
Common Eider
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser B
Common Merganser R
Red-breasted Merganser
Masked Duck R
Ruddy Duck B
Wild Turkey B
Northern Bobwhite B
Red-throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Least Grebe R
Pied-billed Grebe B
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe R
Eared Grebe
Cory's Shearwater
Greater Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
White-tailed Tropicbird
Masked Booby B
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Northern Gannet
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican B
Great Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant B
Anhinga B
Magnificent Frigatebird B
American Bittern
Least Bittern B
Great Blue Heron B
Great Egret B
Snowy Egret B
Little Blue Heron B
Tricolored Heron B
Reddish Egret B
Cattle Egret B
Green Heron B
Black-crowned Night-Heron B
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron B
White Ibis B
Glossy Ibis B
White-faced Ibis B, R
Roseate Spoonbill B
Wood Stork B
Black Vulture B
Turkey Vulture B
Greater Flamingo
Osprey B
Swallow-tailed Kite B
White-tailed Kite B
Snail Kite B
Mississippi Kite B
Bald Eagle B
Northern Harrier B
Sharp-shinned Hawk B
Cooper's Hawk B
Red-shouldered Hawk B
Broad-winged Hawk B
Short-tailed Hawk B
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk B
Rough-legged Hawk R
Golden Eagle
Crested Caracara B
Eurasian Kestrel R
American Kestrel B
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Black Rail B
Clapper Rail B
King Rail B
Virginia Rail B
Sora
Purple Gallinule B
Common Moorhen B
American Coot B
Limpkin B
Sandhill Crane B
Whooping Crane
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover
Lesser Sand-Plover R
Snowy Plover B
Wilson's Plover B
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Killdeer B
American Oystercatcher B
Black-necked Stilt B
American Avocet
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet B
Lesser Yellowlegs
Upland Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Bar-tailed Godwit R
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper
Dunlin
Stilt Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Ruff
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
American Woodcock B
Wilson's Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope
Laughing Gull B
Franklin's Gull
Little Gull R
Black-headed Gull R
Bonaparte's Gull
Heermann's Gull R
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull R
Herring Gull
European Herring Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Iceland Gull R
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Slaty-backed Gull R
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Sabine's Gull
Brown Noddy B
Black Noddy
Sooty Tern B
Bridled Tern B
Least Tern B
Gull-billed Tern B
Caspian Tern B
Black Tern
Roseate Tern B
Common Tern B
Arctic Tern
Forster's Tern
Royal Tern B
Sandwich Tern B
Elegant Tern R
Black Skimmer B
South Polar Skua R
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Long-tailed Jaeger
Rock Pigeon E, B
White-crowned Pigeon B
Band-tailed Pigeon R
Eurasian Collared-Dove E, B
White-winged Dove BI
Mourning Dove B
Common Ground-Dove B
Key West Quail-Dove
Budgerigar E, B
Monk Parakeet E, B
Black-hooded Parakeet E
White-winged Parakeet E, B
Yellow-billed Cuckoo B
Mangrove Cuckoo B
Black-billed Cuckoo
Smooth-billed Ani B
Groove-billed Ani
Barn Owl B
Eastern Screech-Owl B
Great Horned Owl B
Snowy Owl R
Burrowing Owl B
Barred Owl B
Short-eared Owl
Lesser Nighthawk
Common Nighthawk B
Antillean Nighthawk B
Chuck-will's-widow B
Whip-poor-will
Chimney Swift B
Broad-billed Hummingbird R
Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Ruby-throated Hummingbird B
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Calliope Hummingbird R
Broad-tailed Hummingbird R
Rufous Hummingbird
Allen's Hummingbird R
Belted Kingfisher B
Red-headed Woodpecker B
Red-bellied Woodpecker B
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker B
Hairy Woodpecker B
Red-cockaded Woodpecker B
Northern Flicker B
Pileated Woodpecker B
Eastern Wood-Pewee B
Cuban Pewee R
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher B
Alder Flycatcher R
Willow Flycatcher R
Least Flycatcher
Hammond’s Flycatcher R
Eastern Phoebe
Say's Phoebe R
Vermilion Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher B
Brown-crested Flycatcher
La Sagra's Flycatcher
Tropical Kingbird R
Cassin's Kingbird R
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird B
Loggerhead Kingbird R
Gray Kingbird B
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike B
White-eyed Vireo B
Thick-billed Vireo R
Bell's Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo B
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo B
Black-whiskered Vireo B
Blue Jay B
Florida Scrub-Jay B
American Crow B
Fish Crow B
Horned Lark
Purple Martin B
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow B
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow B
Cave Swallow B
Barn Swallow B
Carolina Chickadee B
Tufted Titmouse B
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch B
Brown-headed Nuthatch B
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren B
House Wren
Winter Wren
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren B
Red-whiskered Bulbul E, B
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher B
Eastern Bluebird B
Veery
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Bicknell's Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush B
American Robin B
Varied Thrush R
Gray Catbird B
Northern Mockingbird B
Brown Thrasher B
Common Myna
European Starling E, B
American Pipit
Sprague's Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Blue-winged Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula B
Yellow Warbler B
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler B
Pine Warbler B
Prairie Warbler B
Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart B
Prothonotary Warbler B
Worm-eating Warbler B
Swainson's Warbler B
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush B
Kentucky Warbler B
Connecticut Warbler
Common Yellowthroat B
Hooded Warbler B
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat B
Bananaquit
Summer Tanager B
Scarlet Tanager
Western Tanager
Western Spindalis
Yellow-faced Grassquit R
Black-faced Grassquit R
Green-tailed Towhee R
Eastern Towhee B
Bachman's Sparrow B
American Tree Sparrow R
Chipping Sparrow B
Clay-colored Sparrow
Field Sparrow B
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow B
Henslow's Sparrow
Le Conte's Sparrow
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow B
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Harris's Sparrow R
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Lapland Longspur
Chestnut-collared Longspur R
Snow Bunting
Northern Cardinal B
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak B
Varied Bunting R
Indigo Bunting B
Painted Bunting B
Dickcissel
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird B
Eastern Meadowlark B
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Common Grackle B
Boat-tailed Grackle B
Shiny Cowbird
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown-headed Cowbird B
Orchard Oriole B
Hooded Oriole R
Bullock's Oriole R
Spot-breasted Oriole E, B
Baltimore Oriole
Purple Finch
House Finch E, B
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow E, B
Fulvous Whistling-Duck B
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Ross's Goose R
Brant
Cackling Goose R
Canada Goose BI
Tundra Swan
Muscovy Duck E, B
Wood Duck B
Gadwall
Eurasian Wigeon
American Wigeon
American Black Duck
Mallard BI
Mottled Duck B
Blue-winged Teal B
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
White-cheeked Pintail R
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck B
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup B
Common Eider
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser B
Common Merganser R
Red-breasted Merganser
Masked Duck R
Ruddy Duck B
Wild Turkey B
Northern Bobwhite B
Red-throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Least Grebe R
Pied-billed Grebe B
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe R
Eared Grebe
Cory's Shearwater
Greater Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
White-tailed Tropicbird
Masked Booby B
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Northern Gannet
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican B
Great Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant B
Anhinga B
Magnificent Frigatebird B
American Bittern
Least Bittern B
Great Blue Heron B
Great Egret B
Snowy Egret B
Little Blue Heron B
Tricolored Heron B
Reddish Egret B
Cattle Egret B
Green Heron B
Black-crowned Night-Heron B
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron B
White Ibis B
Glossy Ibis B
White-faced Ibis B, R
Roseate Spoonbill B
Wood Stork B
Black Vulture B
Turkey Vulture B
Greater Flamingo
Osprey B
Swallow-tailed Kite B
White-tailed Kite B
Snail Kite B
Mississippi Kite B
Bald Eagle B
Northern Harrier B
Sharp-shinned Hawk B
Cooper's Hawk B
Red-shouldered Hawk B
Broad-winged Hawk B
Short-tailed Hawk B
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk B
Rough-legged Hawk R
Golden Eagle
Crested Caracara B
Eurasian Kestrel R
American Kestrel B
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Black Rail B
Clapper Rail B
King Rail B
Virginia Rail B
Sora
Purple Gallinule B
Common Moorhen B
American Coot B
Limpkin B
Sandhill Crane B
Whooping Crane
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover
Lesser Sand-Plover R
Snowy Plover B
Wilson's Plover B
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Killdeer B
American Oystercatcher B
Black-necked Stilt B
American Avocet
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet B
Lesser Yellowlegs
Upland Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Bar-tailed Godwit R
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper
Dunlin
Stilt Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Ruff
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
American Woodcock B
Wilson's Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope
Laughing Gull B
Franklin's Gull
Little Gull R
Black-headed Gull R
Bonaparte's Gull
Heermann's Gull R
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull R
Herring Gull
European Herring Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Iceland Gull R
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Slaty-backed Gull R
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Sabine's Gull
Brown Noddy B
Black Noddy
Sooty Tern B
Bridled Tern B
Least Tern B
Gull-billed Tern B
Caspian Tern B
Black Tern
Roseate Tern B
Common Tern B
Arctic Tern
Forster's Tern
Royal Tern B
Sandwich Tern B
Elegant Tern R
Black Skimmer B
South Polar Skua R
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Long-tailed Jaeger
Rock Pigeon E, B
White-crowned Pigeon B
Band-tailed Pigeon R
Eurasian Collared-Dove E, B
White-winged Dove BI
Mourning Dove B
Common Ground-Dove B
Key West Quail-Dove
Budgerigar E, B
Monk Parakeet E, B
Black-hooded Parakeet E
White-winged Parakeet E, B
Yellow-billed Cuckoo B
Mangrove Cuckoo B
Black-billed Cuckoo
Smooth-billed Ani B
Groove-billed Ani
Barn Owl B
Eastern Screech-Owl B
Great Horned Owl B
Snowy Owl R
Burrowing Owl B
Barred Owl B
Short-eared Owl
Lesser Nighthawk
Common Nighthawk B
Antillean Nighthawk B
Chuck-will's-widow B
Whip-poor-will
Chimney Swift B
Broad-billed Hummingbird R
Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Ruby-throated Hummingbird B
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Calliope Hummingbird R
Broad-tailed Hummingbird R
Rufous Hummingbird
Allen's Hummingbird R
Belted Kingfisher B
Red-headed Woodpecker B
Red-bellied Woodpecker B
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker B
Hairy Woodpecker B
Red-cockaded Woodpecker B
Northern Flicker B
Pileated Woodpecker B
Eastern Wood-Pewee B
Cuban Pewee R
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher B
Alder Flycatcher R
Willow Flycatcher R
Least Flycatcher
Hammond’s Flycatcher R
Eastern Phoebe
Say's Phoebe R
Vermilion Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher B
Brown-crested Flycatcher
La Sagra's Flycatcher
Tropical Kingbird R
Cassin's Kingbird R
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird B
Loggerhead Kingbird R
Gray Kingbird B
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike B
White-eyed Vireo B
Thick-billed Vireo R
Bell's Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo B
Blue-headed Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo B
Black-whiskered Vireo B
Blue Jay B
Florida Scrub-Jay B
American Crow B
Fish Crow B
Horned Lark
Purple Martin B
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow B
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow B
Cave Swallow B
Barn Swallow B
Carolina Chickadee B
Tufted Titmouse B
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch B
Brown-headed Nuthatch B
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren B
House Wren
Winter Wren
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren B
Red-whiskered Bulbul E, B
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher B
Eastern Bluebird B
Veery
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Bicknell's Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush B
American Robin B
Varied Thrush R
Gray Catbird B
Northern Mockingbird B
Brown Thrasher B
Common Myna
European Starling E, B
American Pipit
Sprague's Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Blue-winged Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula B
Yellow Warbler B
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler B
Pine Warbler B
Prairie Warbler B
Palm Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart B
Prothonotary Warbler B
Worm-eating Warbler B
Swainson's Warbler B
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush B
Kentucky Warbler B
Connecticut Warbler
Common Yellowthroat B
Hooded Warbler B
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat B
Bananaquit
Summer Tanager B
Scarlet Tanager
Western Tanager
Western Spindalis
Yellow-faced Grassquit R
Black-faced Grassquit R
Green-tailed Towhee R
Eastern Towhee B
Bachman's Sparrow B
American Tree Sparrow R
Chipping Sparrow B
Clay-colored Sparrow
Field Sparrow B
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow B
Henslow's Sparrow
Le Conte's Sparrow
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow B
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Harris's Sparrow R
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Lapland Longspur
Chestnut-collared Longspur R
Snow Bunting
Northern Cardinal B
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak B
Varied Bunting R
Indigo Bunting B
Painted Bunting B
Dickcissel
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird B
Eastern Meadowlark B
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Rusty Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Common Grackle B
Boat-tailed Grackle B
Shiny Cowbird
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown-headed Cowbird B
Orchard Oriole B
Hooded Oriole R
Bullock's Oriole R
Spot-breasted Oriole E, B
Baltimore Oriole
Purple Finch
House Finch E, B
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow E, B
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