Water Birds

  • Swimmers

    • Swans, geese

    • Ducks

    • Loons, grebes

    • Auklets, Dovekie, guillemots, murrelets, murres, puffins

    • Anhinga, cormorants

  • Fliers

    • Boobies, frigatebirds, gannets, pelicans, tropicbirds

    • Albatrosses, petrels, shearwaters, storm petrels, jaegers, skuas

    • Gulls, terns

    • Black Skimmer

  • Walkers

    • Bitterns, flamingoes, ibises, spoonbills, storks

    • Egrets

    • Herons

    • Coots, cranes, Limpkin, moorhens, rails

    • American Avocet, dowitchers

    • Curlews, Whimbrel, godwits

    • Jacanas, lapwings, oystercatchers, phalaropes, plovers, Ruff, turnstones, woodcocks, snipe

    • Sandpipers, Willet

    • Black-necked Stilt, yellowlegs

Land Birds

  • Game Birds

    • Plain Chachalaca, grouse, partridges, pheasants, prairie-Chickens, ptarmigans, quail, Wild Turkey

  • Raptors

    1. Eagles, falcons, hawks, Osprey

    2. Vultures, owls

  • Larger Birds (a mixed bag)

    • Crows, jays, magpies, ravens, scrub-jays

    • Parrots and allies, anis, cuckoos, trogons, roadrunners

    • Pigeons, doves

    • Woodpeckers, kingfishers

  • Fliers

    • Hummingbirds

    • Swallows, swifts, goatsuckers

  • Songbirds

    • Bananaquit, cardinaline buntings, cardinals, Dickcissel, grosbeaks, tanagers

    • Blackbirds, Bobolink, cowbirds, grackles, meadowlarks, orioles

    • Bluebirds, American Dipper, gnatcatchers, kinglets, robins, thrushes, Old World warblers, Wrentit

    • Bushtit, chickadees, titmice, Verdin

    • Catbirds, mockingbirds, thrashers, starlings, mynas

    • Crossbills, finches, goldfinches, grosbeaks, Old World sparrows, redpolls, Pine Siskin

    • Emberizine sparrow allies. buntings, juncos, longspurs, towhees

    • Emberizine sparrows

    • Flycatchers, kingbirds, pewees, phoebes, wood-Pewees

    • Nuthatches, Brown Creeper, wrens

    • Parulas, redstarts, wood-warblers, waterthrushes

    • Shrikes, vireos, larks

    • Wagtails, pipits, silky-flycatchers, bulbuls, waxwings