Florida Birds

Black skimmer photo courtesy of floridabirdingtrail.com .

The 40 most sought after birds of Florida are…

1. Bachman’s Sparrow

2. Bald Eagle

3. Black Rail

4. Black Skimmer

5. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

6. Black-whiskered Vireo

7. Bridled Tern

8. Brown Noddy

9. Crested Caracara

10. Florida Burrowing Owl

11. Florida Grasshopper Sparrow

12. Florida Scrub Jay

13. Fulvous Whistling-Duck

14. Gray Kingbird

15. Gull-billed Tern

16. Hairy Woodpecker

17. Least Tern

18. Limpkin

19. Magnificent Frigatebird

20. Mangrove Cuckoo

21. Masked Booby

22. Mottled Duck

23. Painted Bunting

24. Piping Plover

25. Purple Gallinule

26. Red-cockaded Woodpecker

27. Roseate Spoonbill

28. Roseate Tern

29. Sandhill Crane

30. Short-tailed Hawk

31. Smooth-billed Ani

32. Snail Kite

33. Snowy Plover

34. Sooty Tern

35. Swallow-tailed Kite

36. White-crowned Pigeon

37. White-tailed Kite

38. Whooping Crane

39. Wood Stork

40. Yellow Rail

In this list, there are large birds and small birds, shorebirds and inland birds, and rare birds and common birds.

Of the above species, black skimmers, least terns, magnificent frigatebirds, piping plovers, roseate terns, snowy plovers, sooty terns are beach birds.

Magnificent frigatebird photo courtesy of floridabirding trail.com.

Great Florida Birding Trail

If you are interested in Florida birds, you should definitely visit the Great Florida Birding Trail. The Great Florida Birding Trail is a network of 515 sites located throughout Florida. “This 2,000-mile, self-guided highway trail is designed to conserve and enhance Florida’s wildlife habitats by promoting birding and wildlife viewing activities, conservation education and economic opportunity.”

To many joyful beach experiences!

— Lisa Dworkin