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FIELD CARD to the BIRDS of CUBA 2016 C: My Documents / Avian Checklists / Field Card to Birds of Cuba Nov 2016.Docx FIELD CARD TO THE BIRDS OF CUBA 2016 C: My Documents / Avian Checklists / Field Card to Birds of Cu a Nov 2016.docx Date: Location: Sky: Temp: (ind Ppt.: O servers: Anatidae Phoenicopteridae ___Great Blue Heron ___Purple Gallinule ___Western Sandpiper Alcidae ___W-faced Whist-Duck ___Greater Flamingo ___Great Egret ___Common Gallinule ___Least Sandpiper ___Dovekie ___B-bell Whistling-Duck ___Snowy Egret ___American Coot ___Wh-rump Sandpiper ___W Indian Whist-Duck Procellariidae ___Little Blue Heron ___Caribbean Coot ___Pectoral Sandpiper Columbidae ___Ful Whistling-Duck ___Black-capped Petrel ___Tricolored Heron ___Dunlin ___Rock Pigeon (I) ___Gr Wh-front Goose ___Cory's Shearwater ___Reddish Egret Aramidae ___Stilt Sandpiper ___Scaly-naped Pigeon ___Snow Goose ___Sooty Shearwater ___Cattle Egret ___Limpkin ___B-breast Sandpiper ___Wh-crowned Pigeon ___Canada Goose ___Manx Shearwater ___Green Heron ___S-billed Dowitcher ___Plain Pigeon ___Tundra Swan ___Aud’s Shearwater ___Blk-crown N-Heron Gruidae ___L-billed Dowitcher ___E Collared-Dove (I) ___Muscovy Duck (I) ___Yel-crown N-Heron ___Sandhill Crane ___Wilson's Snipe ___White-winged Dove ___Wood Duck Hydrobatidae ___Wilson's Phalarope ___Zenaida Dove ___Gadwall ___Wilson's Stm-Petrel Threskiornithidae Charadriidae ___R-necked Phalarope ___Mourning Dove ___American Wigeon ___Leach's Storm-Petrel ___White Ibis ___Black-bellied Plover ___Red Phalarope ___Com Ground-Dove ___Mallard ___B-rump Storm-Petrel ___Scarlet Ibis ___Am Golden-Plover ___Key West Quail-Dove ___Blue-winged Teal ___Glossy Ibis ___Snowy Plover Laridae ___* G-front Quail-Dove ___Cinnamon Teal Phaethontidae ___Roseate Spoonbill ___Wilson's Plover ___Blk-legged Kittiwake ___Ruddy Quail-Dove ___Northern Shoveler ___Wh-tailed Tropicbird ___Semipalmated Plover ___Sabine's Gull ___* B-head Quail-Dove ___Wh-cheeked Pintail ___Red-billed Tropicbird Cathartidae ___Piping Plover ___Bonaparte's Gull ___Northern Pintail ___Black Vulture ___Killdeer ___Black-headed Gull Cuculidae ___Green-winged Teal Ciconiidae ___Turkey Vulture ___Laughing Gull ___Yellow-billed Cuckoo ___Canvasback ___Wood Stork Haematopodidae ___Franklin's Gull ___Mangrove Cuckoo ___Redhead Pandionidae ___Am Oystercatcher ___Ring-billed Gull ___Black-billed Cuckoo ___Ring-necked Duck Fregatidae ___Osprey ___Herring Gull ___Great Lizard-Cuckoo ___Greater Scaup ___Magnif Frigatebird Recurvirostridae ___G Black-backed Gull ___Smooth-billed Ani ___Lesser Scaup Accipitridae ___Black-necked Stilt ___Brown Noddy ___Bufflehead Sulidae ___* Cuban Kite ___American Avocet ___Sooty Tern Tytonidae ___Hooded Merganser ___Masked Booby ___Swallow-tailed Kite ___Bridled Tern ___Barn Owl ___R-breast Merganser ___Brown Booby ___Snail Kite Jacanidae ___Least Tern ___Masked Duck ___Red-footed Booby ___Mississippi Kite ___Northern Jacana ___Large-billed Tern Strigidae ___Ruddy Duck ___Northern Gannet ___Northern Harrier ___Gull-billed Tern ___* Bare-legged Owl ___Sharp-shinned Hawk Scolopacidae ___Caspian Tern ___* Cuban Pygmy-Owl Odontophoridae Phalacrocoracidae ___* Gundlach's Hawk ___Spotted Sandpiper ___Black Tern ___Burrowing Owl ___Northern Bobwhite ___Neotropic Cormorant ___* Cuban Black-Hawk ___Solitary Sandpiper ___Roseate Tern ___Long-eared Owl ___Dbl-crest Cormorant ___Broad-winged Hawk ___Greater Yellowlegs ___Common Tern ___Stygian Owl Phasianidae ___Red-tailed Hawk ___Willet ___Arctic Tern ___Short-eared Owl ___R-neck Pheasant (I) Anhingidae ___Lesser Yellowlegs ___Forster's Tern ___Hel Guineafowl (I) ___Anhinga Rallidae ___Upland Sandpiper ___Royal Tern Caprimulgidae ___Black Rail ___Whimbrel ___Sandwich Tern ___Common Nighthawk Gaviidae Pelecanidae ___Clapper Rail ___Long-billed Curlew ___Black Skimmer ___Antillean Nighthawk ___Common Loon ___Am White Pelican ___King Rail ___Hudsonian Godwit ___Chuck-will's-widow ___Brown Pelican ___Virginia Rail ___Marbled Godwit Stercorariidae ___* Cuban Nightjar Podicipedidae ___Sora ___Ruddy Turnstone ___South Polar Skua ___Whip-poor-will ___Least Grebe Ardeidae ___Yel-breasted Crake ___Red Knot ___Pomarine Jaeger ___Pied-billed Grebe ___American Bittern ___* Zapata Rail ___Sanderling ___Parasitic Jaeger ___Least Bittern ___Spotted Rail ___Semipalm Sandpiper ___Long-tailed Jaeger Apodidae ___Eastern Kingbird ___Bicknell's Thrush ___Pine Warbler ___Rusty Blackbird ___Black Swift ___Gray Kingbird ___Swainson's Thrush ___Y-rumped Warbler ___Gr Antillean Grackle ___White-collared Swift ___Loggerhead Kingbird ___Hermit Thrush ___Y-throated Warbler ___Shiny Cowbird ___Chimney Swift ___** Giant Kingbird ___Wood Thrush ___Prairie Warbler ___Brn-headed Cowbird ___Antillean Palm-Swift ___Scis-tailed Flycatcher ___American Robin ___Blk-thr Gray Warbler ___*Cuban Oriole ___Fork-tail Flycatcher ___Red-legged Thrush ___Blk-thr Grn Warbler ___Orchard Oriole Trochilidae ___Canada Warbler ___Hooded Oriole ___Cuban Emerald Vireonidae Mimidae ___Wilson's Warbler ___Baltimore Oriole ___R-thrt Hummingbird ___White-eyed Vireo ___Gray Catbird ___Yellow-breasted Chat ___* Bee Hummingbird ___Thick-billed Vireo ___Northrn Mockingbird ___* Yel-headed Warb Fringillidae ___* Cuban Vireo ___Bahama Mockingbird ___* Oriente Warbler ___American Goldfinch Trogonidae ___Yel-throated Vireo ___Brown Thrasher ___ Bananaquit ___* Cuban Trogon ___Blue-headed Vireo Passeridae ___Warbling Vireo Sturnidae Thraupidae ___House Sparrow (I) Todidae ___Philadelphia Vireo ___European Starling (I) ___Western Spindalis ___* Cuban Tody ___Red-eyed Vireo ___Rd-leg H-creeper Estrildidae ___Blk-whiskered Vireo Bombycillidae ___ Tricolored Munia (I) Alcedinidae ___Cedar Waxwing Emberizidae ___ Scaly-brstd Munia (I) ___Belted Kingfisher Corvidae ___**Cuban Bullfinch ___Chestnut Munia (I) ___** Palm Crow Parulidae ___* Cuban Grassquit Picidae ___Cuban Crow ___Ovenbird ___Yel-faced Grassquit ADDITIONAL SPECIES: ___W Ind Woodpecker ___Worm-eat Warbler ___Black-faced Grassquit Motacillidae ___Yel-bellied Sapsucker Hirundinidae ___Louis Waterthrush ___Saffron Finch __ American Pipit ___* Cuban Grn Wood ___Purple Martin ___North Waterthrush ___Green-tailed Towhee ___Northern Flicker ___*** Cuban Martin ___Bachman's Warblr (E) ___* Zapata Sparrow ___* Fernandina's Flick ___Tree Swallow ___Gldn-winged Warbler ___Chipping Sparrow ___Iv-billed Woodpkr ___Bahama Swallow ___Blue-winged Warbler ___Clay-colored Sparrow * = Endemic species ___N. R-winged Swallow ___Blk-and-wh Warbler ___Lark Sparrow ** = Future Endemic if Falconidae ___Bank Swallow ___Prothonotary Warblr ___Savannah Sparrow split ___Crested Caracara ___Cliff Swallow ___Swainson's Warbler ___Grasshop Sparrow *** ‘breeding endemic’ ___American Kestrel ___Cave Swallow ___Tennessee Warbler ___Lincoln's Sparrow NOTES ___Merlin ___Barn Swallow ___O-crowned Warbler ___Wh-crown Sparrow ___Peregrine Falcon ___Nashville Warbler Shaded species are Troglodytidae ___Connecticut Warbler Cardinalidae considered unlikely on Psittacidae ___* Zapata Wren ___Mourning Warbler ___Summer Tanager this itinerary (but you ___* Cuban Parakeet ___House Wren ___Kentucky Warbler ___Scarlet Tanager never know…) ___ Cuban Parrot ___Marsh Wren ___Com Yellowthroat ___Western Tanager ___Hooded Warbler ___R-breasted Grosbeak Tyrannidae Polioptilidae ___American Redstart ___Blue Grosbeak ___West Wood-Pewee ___Bl-gray Gnatcatcher ___Cape May Warbler ___Lazuli Bunting ___East Wood-Pewee ___* Cuban Gnatcatcher ___Cerulean Warbler ___Indigo Bunting ___Cuban Pewee ___Northern Parula ___Painted Bunting ___Y-bellied Flycatcher Regulidae ___Magnolia Warbler ___Dickcissel ___Acadian Flycatcher ___Rby-crowned Kinglet ___Bay-breast Warbler ___Alder Flycatcher ___Blackburnian Warblr Icteridae ___Willow Flycatcher Turdidae ___Yellow Warbler ___Bobolink ___Eastern Phoebe ___Northern Wheatear ___Chestnut-sided Warb ___* Rd-shoulder B-bird ___G Crested Flycatcher ___Eastern Bluebird ___Blackpoll Warbler ___ Twny-should Blackb ___La Sagra's Flycatcher ___* Cuban Solitaire ___Blk-thr Blue Warbler ___* *(Cu) E. Meadowlrk ___Tropical Kingbird ___Veery ___Palm Warbler ___Y-headed Blackbird ___Western Kingbird ___Gray-cheeked Thrush ___Olive-cap Warbler ___* Cuban Blackbird .
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