CORAL CAP SPECIES OF FLOWER GARDEN BANKS NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY

Classification Common name Scientific Name

Birds Boobies Masked Booby Sula dactylatra Brown Booby Sula leucogaster

Cardinals/Grossbeaks Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea

Cuckoos Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus

Doves White-Winged Dove Zenaida asiatica Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura

Falcons Merlin Falco columbarius Peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus Osprey Pandion haliaetus

Flycatchers Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe

Frigate Birds Magnificent Frigate bird Fregata magnificens

Gallinules Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus Purple Gallinule Porphyrula martinica

Gulls Laughing Gull Larus atricillia Parasitic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus Royal Tern Sterna maxima

Herons Great Egret Ardea alba Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis Green Heron Butorides striatus

Hummingbirds Hummingbird sp.

Mockingbirds/Thrashers Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis

Nightjars Common Nighthawk Chordeiles Minor

Orioles Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius

Pelicans Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis CORAL CAP SPECIES OF FLOWER GARDEN BANKS NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY

Classification Common name Scientific Name

Petrels Wilson's Storm Petrel Oceanites oceanicus

Sparrows Sparrow sp.

Swallows Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica Cliff Swallow Hirundo pyrrhonota Bank Swallow Riparia riparia

Swifts Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica

Tanagers Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea Summer Tanager Piranga rubra

Teals Blue-winged Teal Anas discors

Terns Brown Noddy Anous stolidus

Thrushes Swainson’s Thrush Catharus ustulatus

Vireos Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus

Warblers Bay-breasted Warbler Dendroica castanea Yellow-rumped Warbler Dendroica coronate Yellow-throated Warbler Dendroica dominica Magnolia Warbler Dendroica magnolia Chestnut-sided Warbler Dendroica pensylvanica Yellow Warbler Dendroica petechial Pine Warbler Dendroica pinus Black-throated Green Warbler Dendroica virens Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas Black and White Warbler Minotilta varia Kentucky Warbler Oporornis formosus Northern Parula Parula Americana Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapillus American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla Hooded Warbler Wilsonia citrina

Woodpeckers Woodpecker sp.