A Checklist of the Birds of
the DRY TORTUGAS and SOUTH FLORIDA

To = Dry Tortugas     Fl = South Florida
Bold-faced species are rare, unusual or local species.
x = observed       h = heard only
  Fl To Fl-To Fl-To
  97-00 97-02 2004 2007
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck       x
Muscovy Duck x x x x
American Wigeon x      
Mottled Duck x   x x
Blue-winged Teal x x x x
Northern Shoveler x      
Red-breasted Merganser x x   x
Wild Turkey x     x
Northern Bobwhite x   x x
Pied-billed Grebe x   x x
Horned Grebe x      
Audubon's Shearwater   x    
White-tailed Tropicbird   x    
Masked Booby   x x x
Brown Booby   x x  
Red-footed Booby   x    
Northern Gannet   x x x
American White Pelican x x x x
Brown Pelican x x x x
Double-crested Cormorant x x x x
Anhinga x x x x
Magnificent Frigatebird x x x x
Least Bittern x   x x
Great Blue Heron x x x x
Wurdemann's Heron (Blue x White) x x   x
"Great White" Heron x x x  
Great Egret x x x x
Snowy Egret x x x x
Little Blue Heron x x x x
Tricolored Heron x x x x
Reddish Egret x x x x
Cattle Egret x x x x
Green Heron x x x x
Black-crowned Night-Heron x x x x
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron x x x x
White Ibis x x x x
Scarlet x White Ibis x      
Glossy Ibis x x x x
Roseate Spoonbill x x x x
Wood Stork x x x x
Black Vulture x   x x
Turkey Vulture x x x x
Osprey x x x x
Swallow-tailed Kite x x x x
Snail Kite x   x x
Bald Eagle x x   x
Northern Harrier x x x x
Sharp-shinned Hawk x x x ?
Cooper's Hawk   x    
Red-shouldered Hawk x x x x
Broad-winged Hawk x x x  
Short-tailed Hawk x   x x
Red-tailed Hawk x   x x
Crested Caracara x   x x
American Kestrel x x x x
Merlin x x x x
Peregrine Falcon x x x x
Clapper Rail     x  
King Rail x     x
Sora x x x x
Purple Gallinule x x x x
Common Moorhen x x x x
American Coot x x x x
Purple Swamphen (escape)       x
Limpkin x   x x
Sandhill Crane x   x x
Black-bellied Plover x x x x
American Golden-Plover   x    
Snowy Plover x   x  
Wilson's Plover x x    
Semipalmated Plover x x x x
Piping Plover x   x  
Killdeer x x x x
American Oystercatcher   x x  
Black-necked Stilt x x x x
Spotted Sandpiper x x x x
Solitary Sandpiper x   x x
Greater Yellowlegs x x x x
Willet x x x x
Lesser Yellowlegs x x x x
Upland Sandpiper   x x  
Whimbrel x x x  
Ruddy Turnstone x x x x
Red Knot x   x x
Sanderling x x x  
Semipalmated Sandpiper x x x x
Western Sandpiper x      
Least Sandpiper x x x x
White-rumped Sandpiper       x
Purple Sandpiper   x    
Dunlin x x x x
Stilt Sandpiper x x x x
Short-billed Dowitcher x x x x
Long-billed Dowitcher       x
Wilson's Snipe       x
Pomarine Jaeger   x    
Parasitic Jaeger   x    
Laughing Gull x x x x
Ring-billed Gull x x x x
Herring Gull x x x x
Lesser Black-backed Gull x x    
Great Black-backed Gull   x    
Brown Noddy   x x x
Black Noddy   x x  
Sooty Tern   x x x
Bridled Tern   x    
Least Tern x x x x
Gull-billed Tern x x    
Caspian Tern x x x  
Roseate Tern   x x  
Arctic Tern   x    
Royal Tern x x x x
Sandwich Tern x x x x
Black Skimmer x x x  
Rock Pigeon x x x x
White-crowned Pigeon x x x x
Eurasian Collared-Dove x x x x
White-winged Dove x x x x
Mourning Dove x x x x
Common Ground-Dove x x x x
Key West Quail-Dove x      
Monk Parakeet x x x x
White-winged Parakeet (introduced) x      
Mitred Parakeet (intoduced) x      
Yellow-billed Cuckoo x x x x
Mangrove Cuckoo x x x  
Smooth-billed Ani   x x x
Eastern Screech-Owl x   x  
Great Horned Owl x      
Burrowing Owl x x x x
Barred Owl x x x  
(Cuban) Short-eared Owl   x   x
Common Nighthawk x x x x
Antillean Nighthawk x x x x
Chuck-will's-widow x x x x
Whip-poor-will   x    
Chimney Swift x x x x
Ruby-throated Hummingbird x x x  
Belted Kingfisher x x x x
Red-headed Woodpecker x   x  
Red-bellied Woodpecker x x x x
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker   x    
Downy Woodpecker x   x x
Hairy Woodpecker     x  
Red-cockaded Woodpecker x      
Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker x x x x
Pileated Woopecker x x x x
Eastern Wood-Pewee x      
Great Crested Flycatcher x x x x
Western Kingbird x     x
Eastern Kingbird x x x x
Gray Kingbird x x x x
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher x     x
Loggerhead Shrike x x x x
Blue-headed Vireo       x
White-eyed Vireo x x x x
Red-eyed Vireo x x x  
Black-whiskered Vireo x x x x
Blue Jay x x x x
Florida Scrub-Jay x   x x
American Crow x x x x
Fish Crow x x x x
Purple Martin x x x x
Tree Swallow x x x x
Northern Rough-winged Swallow x x x  
Bank Swallow x x x  
Cliff Swallow   x x  
Cave Swallow (West Indian race) x x x x
Barn Swallow x x x x
Carolina Wren x   x x
House Wren x     x
Red-whiskered Bulbul x x x x
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher x   x x
Eastern Bluebird x   x x
Veery x x x  
Gray-cheeked Thrush x x x x
Swainson's Thrush x x    
Wood Thrush x x x  
American Robin   x    
Gray Catbird x x x x
Northern Mockingbird x x x x
Brown Thrasher x x x x
European Starling x x x x
Common Myna (introduced) x x x x
Cedar Waxwing x x x x
Blue-winged Warbler x x    
Brewster's Warbler (hybrid)   x    
Tennessee Warbler x x   x
Orange-crowned Warbler   x    
Northern Parula x x x x
Yellow Warbler x x x x
Yellow (Golden or Cuban) Warbler   x   x
Chestnut-sided Warbler x x    
Magnolia Warbler x x x x
Cape May Warbler x x x x
Black-throated Blue Warbler x x x x
Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler x x   x
Black-throated Green Warbler x x x  
Blackburnian Warbler   x    
Yellow-throated Warbler   x    
Pine Warbler x   x x
Prairie Warbler x x x x
Palm Warbler x x x x
Bay-breasted Warbler x      
Blackpoll Warlber x x x x
Cerulean Warbler   x    
Black-and-white Warbler x x x x
American Redstart x x x x
Prothonotary Warbler x x   x
Worm-eating Warbler   x   x
Swainson's Warbler   x   x
Ovenbird x x x  
Northern Waterthrush x x x x
Louisiana Waterthrush   x x x
Kentucky Warbler x x    
Common Yellowthroat x x x x
Hooded Warbler x x x x
Wilson's Warbler   x    
Summer Tanager x x x  
Scarlet Tanager x x    
Eastern Towhee x x x x
Bachman's Sparrow x   x x
Lark Sparrow   x    
Savannah Sparrow   x x  
Grasshopper Sparrow   x    
(Cape Sable) Seaside Sparrow x x x x
Northern Cardinal x x x x
Rose-breasted Grosbeak   x x x
Blue Grosbeak x x x x
Indigo Bunting x x x x
Painted Bunting x x x  
Dickcissel x x    
Bobolink   x x x
Red-winged Blackbird x x x x
Eastern Meadowlark x x x x
Common Grackle x x x x
Boat-tailed Grackle x x x x
Shiny Cowbird x x x x
Bronzed Cowbird     x x
Brown-headed Cowbird x x x x
Orchard Oriole x x   x
Spot-breasted Oriole x x x x
Baltimore Oriole   x    
House Sparrow x x x x
         
Total Species 128- 111- 173 170
  163 135    

Mike and Bob found a single Caribbean Flamingo at the end of Snake Bight Trail, Everglades National Park, while scouting the day before the April 2004 tour. Unfortunately, we could not re-locate it during the tour.
x = observed       h = heard       d = dead
  Fl To Fl-To Fl-To
  97-00 97-02 2004 2007
MAMMALS        
Atlantic Bottle-nosed Dolphin x x x  
Spotted Dolphin   x    
West Indian Manatee x      
Wild (feral) Pig x   x  
White-tailed Deer x x x x
White-tailed 'Key' Deer x x x x
Bobcat       x
Nine-banded Armadillo x   x  
Raccoon x x x x
Virginia Opossum d d d  
River Otter d      
Spotted Skunk d      
Eastern Fox Squirrel x      
Eastern Gray Squirrel x x x x
Eastern Cottontail x d   x
Marsh Rabbit x x x x
Hispid Cotton Rat d*      
* Photographed in the talons of a Red-shouldered Hawk.
Black Rat       x
         
BUTTERFLIES        
Giant Swallowtail       x
Zebra Swallowtail       x
Julia Heliconian       x
Red Admiral       x
Viceroy       x
Common Buckeye       x
         
REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS        
American Crocodile x   x x
American Alligator x x x x
Giant Anole     x  
Green Anole x x   x
Brown Anole x x x x
Six-lined Racerunner   x    
Mediterranean Gecko x x x x
Iguana sp. x     x
Skink sp.     x  
Loggerhead Turtle   x x  
Gopher Tortoise x   x  
Florida Box Turtle x      
Florida Softshell x   x x
Common Snapping Turtle x      
Peninsula Cooter x   x  
Florida Red-bellied Turtle x x x x
Red-eared Slider x     x
Water Moccasin d     x
Yellow Rat Snake x      
Southern Black Racer x      
Florida Red-bellied Snake x      
Peninsula Ribbon Snake     x  
Southern Toad x      
Pig Frog h h x x
Tree Frog sp. h   h  
Green Tree Frog x      
         
FISHES        
Barracuda x x x x
Nurse Shark   x    
Flying Fish   x x  
Sergeant Major x x x x
Mangrove Snapper x x x  
Beau Gregory   x    
Atlantic Needlefish x x x x
Pipefish   x    
Crevalle Jack   x    
Atlantic Silversides x x x  
French Grunt x x    
White Mullet x x x  
Spotlight Parrot Fish   x    
Rainbow Parrot Fish   x    
Yellow-tailed Jack x x    
Killifish x      
Yellow-striped Grunt   x x  
Trunk Fish x x x  
Alligator Gar x   x x
Bowfin x      
Oscar x   x  
Long-eared Sunfish x x x  
Largemouth Bass x   x x
Mosquitofish x   x  
Black Bullhead x      
Florida Flagfish x      
Cichlid x   x x
Tilapia       x
Basking Shark   x    
Blue Tang   x    
French Angelfish   x    
Yellow Stingray   x    
Bluehead Wrasse   x    
Porkfish   x    
Slippery Dick   x    
Reef Butterfish   x    
Tarpon     x  
         
INVERTEBRATES        
Portugese Man-o-War   x