Our Birds

Over 100 species of Florida birds, including the endangered snail kite, can be seen in the wild at Devils Garden Bird Park.   Below is a checklist supplied in Oct 2010 by Margaret England of Hendry-Glades Audubon, and Vincent Lucas of birds spotted over the course of a year at STA-5.    (This list is not intended to represent birds that have been seen at Devils Garden Bird Park.   We have begun compiling our own list and appreciate visitor feedback through the comments section.)

Bird Checklist for  STA-5/Blumberg Rd./L-1 Dike Rd.

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 & GREBES

__ Pied-billed Grebe

FLAMINGOS

__ American Flamingo

PELICANS, CORMORANTS, & 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 & 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 & SWALLOWS

__ 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  &OTHER EMBERIZIDS

__ Eastern Towhee    

__ Savannah Sparrow

__Grasshopper Sparrow

__Swamp Sparrow

CARDINALS, GROSBEAKS & 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

185 species total

Includes

 Blumberg Rd,STA-5 and L-1 Dike Road

 Dates covered: 3/11/04 -8/21/10