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National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Everglades National Park Florida Bird Checklist Printed through the generosity of the Everglades Association. September 2005 Introduction Sp S F W Name B Sp S F W Loons Everglades National Park was established in 1947 to protect south Florida’s subtropical wetlands, particularly the diverse Red-throated Loon * and abundant birdlife. It’s difficult to imagine that the number Common Loon r r r of birds we see here today is only a small fraction of what once Grebes existed. Due to the widespread slaughter of wading birds for Pied-billed Grebe + c u c c their plumes in the early 1900s, and intense water management practices over the last 90 years, 90%-95% of the bird popula- Horned Grebe r r u tion has disappeared. Despite this tragic decline, birds continue Red-necked Grebe * * to be one of the park’s primary attractions. Eared Grebe * This checklist is a complete list of birds observed in the park, a Shearwaters & Petrels total of 366 species as of September 1, 2003. The key below in- Greater Shearwater * * dicates the seasonal occurrence and frequency of each species. Sooty Shearwater * * * The likelihood of observing a particular species is dependent upon being in the proper habitat during the correct season. Audubon’s Shearwater * Wilson’s Storm-Petrel * * This list reflects the continuing growth of information about Leach’s Storm-Petrel * the birds of the park and follows earlier checklists compiled by Boobies & Gannets Willard E. Dilley, William B. Robertson, Jr., Richard L. Cun- ningham, and John C. Ogden. As noted in the list, many birds in Brown Booby * Everglades National Park are known from only a few records. Northern Gannet * * * Users of this checklist can contribute to future lists by carefully Pelicans recording the details of their observations of less common spe- cies and reporting the information to park personnel. American White Pelican c r c c Brown Pelican + c c c c Special thanks to the late Richard “Dick” Cunningham and Cormorants Oron “Sonny” Bass for revising this current list. The park dedi- Double-crested Cormorant + c c c c cates this new checklist to Dick Cunningham as a tribute to his many contributions to the NPS and the birding community. Great Cormorant * Anhinga + c c c c Key B Sp S F W Frigatebirds Magnificent Frigatebird u u u u Breeding Breeding Summer Winter Bitterns & Herons Status Spring Fall B - Breeding status American Bittern ? u r u c + - Breeds in the park Least Bittern + u u u u ? - Breeding status unknown Great Blue Heron + c c c c Seasons Great Blue Heron (white phase) + c c c c Sp - Spring (March 1 - May 31) Great Egret + c c c c S - Summer (June 1 - July 31) Snowy Egret + c c c c F - Fall (August 1 - November 15) Little Blue Heron + c c c c W - Winter (November 16 - April 30) Tricolored Heron + c c c c Abundance Reddish Egret + u u u u c - Commonly observed (seen 50% or more of the time) Cattle Egret + c c c c u - Uncommonly observed (seen less than 50% of the time) Green Heron + c c c c r - Rarely observed (seen less than 25% of the time) * - Fewer then 10 records Black-crowned Night-Heron + c c c c Sp S F W Name B Sp S F W Sp S F W Name B Sp S F W Yellow-crowned Night-Heron + u u u u Long-tailed Duck * Ibises & Spoonbills Bufflehead r r White Ibis + c c c c Common Goldeneye * Scarlet Ibis (probably escapes) r r r r Hooded Merganser r r u Glossy Ibis + u u u u Red-breasted Merganser u r u c White-faced Ibis * Masked Duck * * Roseate Spoonbill + c u c c Ruddy Duck u u c Storks American Vultures Wood Stork + u r u u Black Vulture + c c c c Flamingos Turkey Vulture + c c c c Greater Flamingo r r r r Kites, Hawks, Eagles, & Falcons Geese & Ducks Osprey + c c c c Black-bellied Whistling-Duck * Swallow-tailed Kite + c c r Fulvous Whistling-Duck u r u u White-tailed Kite + r r r r Snow Goose r r Snail Kite + r r r r Canada Goose * Mississippi Kite r r Brant r r r Bald Eagle + c c c c Wood Duck r r r r Northern Harrier u r u c Gadwall r r Sharp-shinned Hawk u u u Eurasian Wigeon * * Cooper’s Hawk r r r American Wigeon u r u c Red-shoulder Hawk + c c c c American Black Duck * Broad-winged Hawk u u u Mallard r r Short-tailed Hawk + u r u u Mottled Duck + c c c c Swainson’s Hawk r r u Blue-winged Teal c r c c Red-tailed Hawk + u u u u Cinnamon Teal * * Rough-legged Hawk * * * Northern Shoveler c r c c Golden Eagle * * White-cheeked Pintail r r r r Crested Caracara * * Northern Pintail c r c American Kestrel c c c Green-winged Teal u r u Merlin u u u Canvasback r r r Peregrine Falcon u u u Redhead r r Turkeys Ring-necked Duck c c c Wild Turkey + r r r r Greater Scaup * Nothern Bobwhite + c c c c Lesser Scaup c c c Rails, Gallinules & Coots Common Eider * Yellow Rail * * * Surf Scoter * Black Rail r r r r White-winged Scoter * Clapper Rail + c c c c Black Scoter * * King Rail + c c c c Sp S F W Name B Sp S F W Sp S F W Name B Sp S F W Virginia Rail r r r Western Sandpiper c r c c Sora c c c Least Sandpiper c u c c Purple Gallinule + c u c c White-rumped Sandpiper r r Common Moorhen + c c c c Baird’s Sandpiper * American Coot + c r c c Pectoral Sandpiper u r c Limpkins Sharp-tailed Sandpiper * Limpkin + u u u u Dunlin c c c Cranes Curlew Sandpiper * * Sandhill Crane + u u u u Stilt Sandpiper u r u r Plovers Buff-breasted Sandpiper * Black-bellied Plover c r c c Ruff * American Golden-Plover r r Short-billed Dowitcher c u c c Snowy Plover * * * * Long-billed Dowitcher u u u r Wilson’s Plover + c c c u Wilson’s Snipe u u u Semipalmated Plover c u c c American Woodcock r r Piping Plover * * * Wilson’s Phalarope * Killdeer + c u c c Red-necked Phalarope * Oystercatchers Gulls, Terns & Skimmers American Oystercatcher r r r r Pomarine Jaeger * Stilts & Avocets Parasitic Jaeger * * Black-necked Stilt + u r u r Laughing Gull + c c c c American Avocet c u c c Franklin’s Gull * Sandpipers & Phalaropes Bonaparte’s Gull u u Greater Yellowlegs c u c c Ring-billed Gull c u c c Lesser Yellowlegs c u c c Herring Gull c u c c Solitary Sandpiper u u r Lesser Black-backed Gull r r r Willet ? c u c c Great Black-backed Gull * * * Spotted Sandpiper c c c Gull-billed Tern u u u u Upland Sandpiper * * Caspian Tern c r c c Whimbrel u r u u Royal Tern c u c c Long-billed Curlew r r r r Sandwich Tern u u u u Black-tailed Godwit * Roseate Tern r Hudsonian Godwit * * Common Tern u u r Bar-tailed Godwit * Forster’s Tern c u c c Marbled Godwit c r c c Least Tern + c c u Ruddy Turnstone c u c c Bridled Tern * Red Knot u r u u Sooty Tern * * * Sanderling u u u Black Tern u u u r Semipalmated Sandpiper u u r Brown Noddy * * Sp S F W Name B Sp S F W Sp S F W Name B Sp S F W Black Skimmer c c c c Kingfishers Pigeons & Doves Belted Kingfishers c r c c Rock Dove * * * * Woodpeckers White-crowned Pigeon + c c c u Red-headed Woodpecker * * * Eurasian Collared -Dove u u u u Red-bellied Woodpecker + c c c c White-winged Dove r r r r Yellow-bellied Sapsucker u u c Zenaida Dove * * * Downy Woodpecker + u u u u Mourning Dove + c c c c Hairy Woodpecker + r r r r Common Ground-Dove + u u u u Red-cockaded Woodpecker extirpated Key West Quail-Dove * * * Northern Flicker + c c c c Parakeets & Parrots Pileated Woodpecker + c c c c Budgerigar (escapes) * Ivory-billed Woodpecker extirpated Monk Parakeet (escapes) * Flycatchers Yellow-chevroned Parakeet (escapes) * Eastern Wood-Pewee u u r Cuckoos & Anis Acadian Flycatcher * Black-billed Cuckoo * Willow Flycatcher * * Yellow-billed Cuckoo + c c c r Least Flycatcher u u r Mangrove Cuckoo + u u u r Eastern Phoebe c c c Smooth-billed Ani + u u u u Say’s Phoebe * Groove-billed Ani r r r Vermilion Flycatcher r r r Owls Great Crested Flycatcher + c c c c Barn Owl + u u u u Brown-crested Flycatcher u u u Eastern Screech-Owl + c c c c Tropical Kingbird * * Great Horned Owl + r r r r Western Kingbird u u u Burrowing Owl r r r r Eastern Kingbird + c c c r Barred Owl + c c c c Gray Kingbird + c c c r Short-eared Owl r r r Scissor-tailed Flycatcher r r r Goatsuckers Fork-tailed Flycatcher * * Lesser Nighthawk r r Shrikes & Vireos Common Nighthawk + c c c r Loggerhead Shrike + u u u u Antillean Nighthawk * * White-eyed Vireo + c c c c Chuck-will’s-widow c c c r Thick-billed Vireo * Whip-poor-will u u c Bell’s Vireo * * Swifts Yellow-throated Vireo u u u Chimney Swift u r Blue-headed Vireo u u u Hummingbirds Philadelphia Vireo * Ruby-throated Hummingbird c r c c Red-eyed Vireo c c * Rufous Hummingbird * * Black-whiskered Vireo + c c c * Sp S F W Name B Sp S F W Sp S F W Name B Sp S F W Jays & Crows Starlings & Mynas Blue Jay + c c c c European Starling + u u u u American Crow + c c c c Common Myna (escapes) * Fish Crow r r Hill Myna (escapes) * * * Larks Pipits Horned Lark * American Pipit u u Swallows Waxwings Purple Martin c c c Cedar Waxwing r-c r-c r-c Tree Swallow c c c Wood Warblers Bahama Swallow * * Blue-winged Warbler r r r Northern Rough-winged Swallow u u r Golden-winged Warbler r r Bank Swallow u u * Tennessee Warbler u u * Cliff Swallow r r u Orange-crowned Warbler u u u Cave Swallow r r Nashville Warbler r r * Barn Swallow + c c c r Northern Parula c r c c Titmice Yellow Warbler + c c c u Tufted Titmouse r r r r Chestnut-sided Warbler r r * Nuthatches Magnolia Warbler u u r Brown-headed Nuthatch + r r r r Cape May Warbler u-c u-c r Wrens Black-throated Blue Warbler c c r Carolina Wren + c c c c Yellow-rumped Warbler u u c House Wren c c c Black-throated Gray Warbler r r r Sedge Wren u u u Black-throated Green Warbler u u u Marsh Wren u u u Blackburnian Warbler u u * Old World Warblers, Thrushes & their Allies Yellow-throated Warbler
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  • Bridled Tern Breeding Record in the United States

    Bridled Tern Breeding Record in the United States

    SCIENCE areamore closely, and quickly locat- ed a downy Bridled Tern chick crouched under one of the rocks which was usedas a perchby the BRIDLEDTERN adult. We have accumulated addi- tionalrecords of nestingat thissite in subsequentyears. BREEDING BridledTerns breed throughout the Bahamas and the Greater and LesserAntilles, and occur commonly offshoreFlorida and regularlyoff RECORDIN THE other southeasternstates, but this is thefirst evidence of breedingreport- edfor NorthAmerica north of Quin- UNITEDSTATES tana Roo on the Yucatan Peninsula (Howell et al. i99o). In this note we describe the islet, the Roseate Tern colony,and the BridledTern nest byPyne Hoffman, site,and compare the nesting habitat of these terns to that used in the Ba- AlexanderSprunt IV, hamas. The FloridaKeys are flankedto PeterKalla, and Mark Robson the eastand south by a line of coral reefsparalleling the main keysat a distance of 6 to i2 kilometers. The best-developed(and some of the On themorning of July •5, •987, two Terns(Sterna anaethetus) flying low shallowest)reefs occur along the reef of us(Sprunt and Hoffman) visited a overthe colony.One of theseterns margin,adjacent to thedeep water of RoseateTern (Sterna dougallih colony sat for extendedperiods on coral the FloridaStraits. The tern colony on a small coral rubble islet on Peli- rocksin the northeasternpart of the occupiesan isletof approximately canShoal, south of BocaChica Key, isletand circled, calling softly when one-fourthhectare composed of coral MonroeCounty, Florida. During in- we approached.We returnedto the rubble and sand located on a shallow spectionwe observedfour Bridled island that afternoon to examine the sectionof the fringingreef called Bridled Tern on Pelican Shoal.