Bird List

Brown Pelican
Brown pelicans are common in Biscayne National Park, though they are endangered in many places.

Judd Patterson

Birds Found in the Park:

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Loons
Common Loon
Red-throated Loon

Grebes
Horned Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe

Albatrosses, Petrels, and Shearwaters
Audubon's Shearwater

Storm-Petrels
Wilson's Storm-Petrel

Pelicaniformes
American White Pelican
Brown Booby
Brown Pelican
Double-Crested Cormorant
Magnificent Frigatebird
Northern Gannet
Red-billed Tropicbird
Red-footed Booby

Wading Birds
American Flamingo
Cattle Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Glossy Ibis
Great Blue Heron / Great White Heron
Great Egret
Green Heron
Little Blue Heron
Reddish Egret
Roseate Spoonbill
Snowy Egret
Tricolored Heron
White Ibis
Wood Stork
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Swans, Geese, and Ducks
American Wigeon
Black Scoter
Blue-winged Teal
Brant
Bufflehead
Canvasback
Fulvous Whistling Duck
Hooded Merganser
Lesser Scaup
Mottled Duck
Muscovy Duck (non-native)
Mute Swan (non-native)
Northern Pintail
Pekin Duck (non-native)
Red-breasted Merganser
Snow Goose
White-winged Scoter

Diurnal Raptors
American Kestrel
Bald Eagle
Black Vulture
Broad-winged Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Merlin
Northern Harrier
Osprey
Peregrine Falcon
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Snail Kite
Short-tailed Hawk
Turkey Vulture

Upland Game Birds
Common Peafowl

Gruiformes
American Coot
Clapper Rail
Common Gallinule

Shorebirds
American Avocet
American Oystercatcher
Black-bellied Plover
Black-necked Stilt
Dunlin
Greater Yellowlegs
Killdeer
Least Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Piping Plover
Purple Sandpiper
Red Knot
Red Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Willet
Wilson's Plover
Wilson's Snipe

Jaegers and Skuas
Parasitic Jaeger
Pomarine Jaeger

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
Arctic Tern
Black Skimmer
Black Tern
Bonaparte's Gull
Brown Noddy
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Franklin's Gull
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Herring Gull
Laughing Gull
Least Tern
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Sooty Tern

Pigeons and Doves
Common Ground-Dove
Eurasian Collared-Dove (non-native)
Key West Quail-Dove
Mourning Dove
Rock Dove (non-native)
White-crowned Pigeon
White-winged Dove

Parrots and Their Allies
Monk Parakeet (non-native)
Orange-winged Parrot (non-native)

Cuckoos and Their Allies
Black-billed Cuckoo
Mangrove Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Goatsuckers and Swifts
Chuck-will's-widow
Common Nighthawk
Whip-poor-will

Hummingbirds
Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Owls
Barn Owl
Barred Owl
Eastern Screech Owl
Great Horned Owl

Kingfishers
Belted Kingfisher

Woodpeckers
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Tyrant Flycatchers
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Gray Kingbird
Great Crested Flycatcher
La Sagra's Flycatcher
Western Kingbird

Shrikes and Vireos
Bell's Vireo
Black-whiskered Vireo
Loggerhead Shrike
Red-eyed Vireo
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo

Jays, Crows, and Their Allies
American Crow
Blue Jay
Fish Crow

Swallows
Barn Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow

Wrens
Carolina Wren
House Wren

Old World Warblers, Thrushers, and Their Allies
American Robin
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Swainson's Thrush
Veery

Mimids
Bahama Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird

Starlings and Mynas
European Starling (non-native)
Common Myna (non-native)
Hill Myna (non-native)

Wagtails and Pipits
American Pipit

Waxwings
Cedar Waxwing

Wood Warblers
American Redstart
Bay-breasted Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Magnolia Warbler
Northern Parula
Northern Waterthrush
Orange-crowned Warbler
Ovenbird
Palm Warbler (Western Palm Warbler)
Prairie Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Yellow "Cuban" Warbler
Yellow-rumped "Myrtle" Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler

Tanagers, Cardinals, and Their Allies
Dickcissel
Indigo Bunting
Northern Cardinal
Painted Bunting
Red-legged Honeycreeper (non-native)
Western Spindalis
Western Tanager

Emberizine Sparrows and Their Allies
Grasshopper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow

Icterids
Baltimore Oriole
Boat-tailed Grackle
Bobolink
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Orchard Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird

Finches and Old World Sparrows
American Goldfinch
House sparrow (non-native)

 

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Last updated: December 21, 2017

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