Birds seen at Alligator Creek Preserve TURKEY & QUAIL (PHASIANIDAE) GREBES (PODICIPEDIDAE) Northern Bobwhite Pied-billed Grebe RAILS (RALLIDAE) PELICANS (PELECANIDAE) Clapper Rail American White Pelican Sora Brown Pelican Common Gallinule (Moorhen)
CORMORANTS (PHALACROCORACIDAE) CRANES (GRUIDAE) Double-crested Cormorant Sandhill Crane
ANHINGAS (ANHINGIDAE) PLOVERS (CHARADRIIDAE) Anhinga Killdeer
STILTS (RECURVIROSTRIDAE) FRIGATEBIRDS (FREGATIDAE) Black-necked Stilt Magnificent Frigatebird
SANDPIPERS (SCOLOPACIDAE) HERONS & EGRETS (ARDEIDAE) Greater Yellowlegs Great Blue Heron Spotted Sandpiper Great Egret Common Snipe Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron GULLS & TERNS (LARIDAE) Tricolored Heron Laughing Gull Reddish Egret Ring-billed Gull Cattle Egret Sandwich Tern Green Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron DOVES (COLUMBIDAE) Rock Dove IBISES (THRESKIORNITHIDAE) Mourning Dove White Ibis Common Ground-Dove Roseate Spoonbill CUCKOOS (CUCULIDAE) STORKS (CICONIIDAE) Yellow-billed Cuckoo Wood Stork OWLS (TYTONIDAE) VULTURES (CATHARTIDAE) Barn Owl Black Vulture Eastern Screech-Owl Turkey Vulture Great Horned Owl Barred Owl DUCKS, GEESE & SWANS (ANATIDAE) Mottled Duck NIGHTJARS (CAPRIMULGIDAE) Blue-winged Teal Chuck-will’s-widow Lesser Scaup Hooded Merganser HUMMINGBIRDS (TROCHILIDAE) Ruby-throated Hummingbird HAWKS, KITES & EAGLES (ACCIPITRIDAE) Rufous Hummingbird Osprey Swallow-tailed Kite KINGFISHERS (ALCEDINIDAE) Bald Eagle Belted Kingfisher Sharp-shinned Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk WOODPECKERS (PICIDAE) Short-tailed Hawk Red-bellied Woodpecker Red-tailed Hawk Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker FALCONS (FALCONIDAE) Hairy Woodpecker American Kestrel Pileated Woodpecker Peregrine Falcon Northern Flicker
FLYCATCHERS (TYRANNIDAE) SPARROWS & ALLIES (EMBERIZIDAE) Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Towhee Eastern Phoebe Swamp Sparrow
(VIREONIDAE) VIREOS GROSBEAKS & BUNTINGS (CARDINALIDAE) Red-eyed Vireo Northern Cardinal White-eyed Vireo Painted Bunting Red-breasted Grosbeak CROWS & JAYS (CORVIDAE) Blue Jay BLACKBIRDS & ORIOLES (ICTERIDAE) Fish Crow Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark MARTINS & SWALLOWS (HIRUNDINIDAE) Tree Swallow FINCHES (FRINGILLIDAE) Cliff Swallow American Goldfinch Barn Swallow
OLD WORLD SPARROWS (PASSERIDAE) CHICKADEES (PARIDAE) House Sparrow Tufted Titmouse
WRENS (TROGLODYTIDAE) Carolina Wren House Wren
GNATCATCHERS (SYLVIIDAE) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Birds listed were seen & heard by SHRIKES (LANIIDAE) Malcolm Simons, master birder, Loggerhead Shrike over many years as a CHEC OLD WORLD WARBLERS (MUSCICAPIDAE) volunteer. Eastern Bluebird Grey-cheeked Thrush 103 species American Robin
MIMID THRUSHES (MIMIDAE) Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher
STARLINGS (STURNIDAE) European Starling
WAXWINGS (BOMBYCILLIDAE) Cedar Waxwing
WARBLERS (PARULIDAE) Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Northern Parula Common Yellowthroat