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Bird Checklist for St. Johns County Florida (As of January 2019) Bird Checklist for St. Johns County Florida (as of January 2019) DUCKS, GEESE, AND SWANS Mourning Dove Black-bellied Whistling-Duck CUCKOOS Snow Goose Yellow-billed Cuckoo Ross's Goose Black-billed Cuckoo Brant NIGHTJARS Canada Goose Common Nighthawk Mute Swan Chuck-will's-widow Tundra Swan Eastern Whip-poor-will Muscovy Duck SWIFTS Wood Duck Chimney Swift Blue-winged Teal HUMMINGBIRDS Cinnamon Teal Ruby-throated Hummingbird Northern Shoveler Rufous Hummingbird Gadwall RAILS, CRANES, and ALLIES American Wigeon King Rail Mallard Virginia Rail Mottled Duck Clapper Rail Northern Pintail Sora Green-winged Teal Common Gallinule Canvasback American Coot Redhead Purple Gallinule Ring-necked Duck Limpkin Greater Scaup Sandhill Crane Lesser Scaup Whooping Crane (2000) Common Eider SHOREBIRDS Surf Scoter Black-necked Stilt White-winged Scoter American Avocet Black Scoter American Oystercatcher Long-tailed Duck Black-bellied Plover Bufflehead American Golden-Plover Common Goldeneye Wilson's Plover Hooded Merganser Semipalmated Plover Red-breasted Merganser Piping Plover Ruddy Duck Killdeer GROUSE, QUAIL, and ALLIES Upland Sandpiper Northern Bobwhite Whimbrel Wild Turkey Long-billed Curlew GREBES Hudsonian Godwit Pied-billed Grebe Marbled Godwit Horned Grebe Ruddy Turnstone FLAMINGOS Red Knot American Flamingo (2004) Ruff PIGEONS and DOVES Stilt Sandpiper Rock Pigeon Sanderling Eurasian Collared-Dove Dunlin Common Ground-Dove Purple Sandpiper White-winged Dove Baird's Sandpiper St. Johns County is a special place for birds – celebrate it! Bird Checklist for St. Johns County Florida (as of January 2019) Least Sandpiper Red-billed Tropicbird (1975) White-rumped Sandpiper LOONS Buff-breasted Sandpiper Red-throated Loon Pectoral Sandpiper Common Loon Semipalmated Sandpiper TUBENOSES Western Sandpiper Wilson's Storm-Petrel Short-billed Dowitcher Leach's Storm-Petrel Long-billed Dowitcher Band-rumped Storm-Petrel American Woodcock Northern Fulmar Wilson's Snipe Black-capped Petrel Wilson's Phalarope Cory's Shearwater Red-necked Phalarope Great Shearwater Red Phalarope Sooty Shearwater Spotted Sandpiper Manx Shearwater (2004) Solitary Sandpiper Audubon's Shearwater Greater Yellowlegs STORKS Willet Wood Stork Lesser Yellowlegs PELICANS, CORMORANTS, and JAEGERS ALLIES Pomarine Jaeger Magnificant Frigatebird Parasitic Jaeger Brown Booby ALCIDS Northern Gannet Razorbill Anhinga GULLS, TERNS, and SKIMMERS Double-crested Cormorant Bonaparte's Gull American White Pelican Laughing Gull Brown Pelican Franklin's Gull HERONS and IBISES Ring-billed Gull American Bittern Herring Gull Least Bittern Iceland Gull Great Blue Heron Lesser Black-backed Gull Great Egret Glaucous Gull Snowy Egret Great Black-backed Gull Little Blue Heron Brown Noddy Tricolored Heron Sooty Tern Reddish Egret Bridled Tern Cattle Egret Least Tern Green Heron Gull-billed Tern Black-crowned Night-Heron Caspian Tern Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Black Tern White Ibis Common Tern Glossy Ibis Arctic Tern White-faced Ibis Forster's Tern Roseate Spoonbill Royal Tern VULTURES and DIURNAL Sandwich Tern RAPTORS Black Skimmer Black Vulture TROPICBIRDS Turkey Vulture St. Johns County is a special place for birds – celebrate it! 2 Bird Checklist for St. Johns County Florida (as of January 2019) Osprey Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Swallow-tailed Kite SHRIKES Mississippi Kite Loggerhead Shrike Northern Harrier VIREOS Sharp-shinned Hawk White-eyed Vireo Cooper's Hawk Yellow-throated Vireo Bald Eagle Blue-headed Vireo Red-shouldered Hawk Philadelphia Vireo Broad-winged Hawk Red-eyed Vireo Short-tailed Hawk JAYS and CROWS Red-tailed Hawk Blue Jay OWLS Florida Scrub-Jay (1997) Barn Owl American Crow Eastern Screech-Owl Fish Crow Great Horned Owl SWALLOWS Barred Owl Northern Rough-winged Swallow KINGFISHERS Purple Martin Belted Kingfisher Tree Swallow WOODPECKERS Bank Swallow Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Barn Swallow Red-headed Woodpecker Cliff Swallow Red-bellied Woodpecker Cave Swallow Downy Woodpecker CHICKADEES and TITMICE Hairy Woodpecker Carolina Chickadee Pileated Woodpecker Tufted Titmouse Northern Flicker NUTHATCHES FALCONS Red-breasted Nuthatch American Kestrel Brown-headed Nuthatch Merlin WRENS Peregrine Falcon House Wren PARROTS and PARAKEETS Winter Wren Monk Parakeet (2004) Sedge Wren Nanday Parakeet (Black-hooded Marsh Wren Parakeet) Carolina Wren Mitred Parakeet (1996) TYRANT FLYCATCHERS KINGLETS and GNATCATCHERS Eastern Wood-Pewee Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Golden-crowned Kinglet Acadian Flycatcher Ruby-crowned Kinglet Eastern Phoebe THRUSHES Vermillion Flycatcher (1993) Eastern Bluebird Ash-throated Flycatcher Veery Great Crested Flycatcher Gray-cheeked Thrush Variegated Flycatcher Swainson's Thrush Western Kingbird Hermit Thrush Eastern Kingbird Wood Thrush Gray Kingbird American Robin St. Johns County is a special place for birds – celebrate it! 3 Bird Checklist for St. Johns County Florida (as of January 2019) CATBIRDS, MOCKINGBIRDS, and Rusty Blackbird THRASHERS Common Grackle Gray Catbird Boat-tailed Grackle Brown Thrasher WARBLERS Northern Mockingbird Ovenbird STARLINGS Worm-eating Warbler European Starling Louisiana Waterthrush PIPITS Northern Waterthrush American Pipit Golden-winged Warbler WAXWINGS Blue-winged Warbler Cedar Waxwing Black-and-white Warbler FINCHES Prothonotary Warbler House Finch Swainson's Warbler Pine Siskin Tennessee Warbler American Goldfinch Orange-crowned Warbler LONGSPURS Nashville Warbler Snow Bunting Connecticut Warbler SPARROWS and TOWHEES Kentucky Warbler Bachman's Sparrow Common Yellowthroat Grasshopper Sparrow Hooded Warbler Chipping Sparrow American Redstart Clay-colored Sparrow Cape May Warbler Field Sparrow Cerulean Warbler Lark Sparrow Northern Parula Dark-eyed Junco Magnolia Warbler White-crowned Sparrow Bay-breasted Warbler White-throated Sparrow Blackburnian Warbler Vesper Sparrow Yellow Warbler Seaside Sparrow Chestnut-sided Warbler Nelson's Sparrow Blackpoll Warbler Saltmarsh Sparrow Black-throated Blue Warbler Savannah Sparrow Palm Warbler Song Sparrow Pine Warbler Lincoln's Sparrow Yellow-rumped Warbler Swamp Sparrow Yellow-throated Warbler Eastern Towhee Prairie Warbler CHATS Black-throated Green Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Canada Warbler BLACKBIRDS Wilson's Warbler Bobolink TANAGERS AND GROSBEAKS Eastern Meadowlark Summer Tanager Orchard Oriole Scarlet Tanager Baltimore Oriole Western Tanager Red-winged Blackbird Northern Cardinal Shiny Cowbird Rose-breasted Grosbeak Bronzed Cowbird Blue Grosbeak Brown-headed Cowbird Indigo Bunting St. Johns County is a special place for birds – celebrate it! 4 Bird Checklist for St. Johns County Florida (as of January 2019) Painted Bunting Dickcissel OLD WORLD SPARROWS House Sparrow St. Johns County is a special place for birds – celebrate it! 5 .
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