“Docko”, the Tokay Gecko Docko’s song
The inner basin often hosts manatee families!
Bird photo gallery
Bird life in our area |
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| Baby Mourning Doves 9-6-09 | 1st Photo above by Rick Keenan | |||||
| Screech Owl 1-25-04 | 3rd Photo, bottom line – by Jeremy Lembo | |||||
| Accipiter cooperii | Cooper’s hawk | |||||
| Aimophila aestivalis | Bachman’s sparrow | |||||
| Ajaia ajaja | roseate spoonbill | |||||
| Aphelocoma coerulescens | Florida scrub-jay | |||||
| Aramus guarauna | limpkin | |||||
| Ardea alba | great egret | |||||
| Ardea herodias occidentalis | great white heron | |||||
| Buteo brachyurus | short-tailed hawk | |||||
| Caracara plancus | crested caracara | |||||
| Charadrius alexandrinus | snowy plover | |||||
| Charadrius melodus | piping plover | |||||
| Coccyzus minor | mangrove cuckoo | |||||
| Dendroica discolor paludicola | Florida prairie warbler | |||||
| Egretta caerulea | little blue heron | |||||
| Egretta rufescens | reddish egret | |||||
| Egretta thula | snowy egret | |||||
| Egretta tricolor | tricolored heron | |||||
| Elanoides forficatus | swallow-tailed kite | |||||
| Eudocimus albus | white ibis | |||||
| Falco columbarius | merlin | |||||
| Falco peregrinus | peregrine falcon | |||||
| Falco sparverius paulus | southeastern American kestrel | |||||
| Fregata magnificens | magnificent frigatebird | |||||
| Grus canadensis pratensis | Florida sandhill crane | |||||
| Haematopus palliatus | American oystercatcher | |||||
| Haliaeetus leucocephalus | bald eagle | |||||
| Ixobrychus exilis | least bittern | |||||
| Laterallus jamaicensis | black rail | |||||
| Mycteria americana | wood stork | |||||
| Nyctanassa violacea | yellow-crowned night-heron | |||||
| Nycticorax nycticorax | black-crowned night-heron | |||||
| Pandion haliaetus | osprey taken by Rick Keenan | |||||
| Pelecanus occidentalis | brown pelican | |||||
| Picoides borealis | red-cockaded woodpecker | |||||
| Picoides villosus | hairy woodpecker | |||||
| Plegadis falcinellus | glossy ibis | |||||
| Rallus longirostris scottii | Florida clapper rail | |||||
| Rynchops niger | black skimmer | |||||
| Speotyto cunicularia floridana | Florida burrowing owl | |||||
| Sterna antillarum | least tern | |||||
| Sterna caspia | Caspian tern | |||||
| Sterna maxima | royal tern | |||||
| Sterna sandvicensis | sandwich tern | |||||
| Vireo altiloquus | black-whiskered vireo | |||||
C = (Confirmed) Occurrence status derived from a documented record in the FNAI data base.
P = (Potential) Occurrence status derived from a reported occurrence for the county or the occurrence lies within the published range of the taxon.
Florida Natural Areas Inventory
1018 Thomasville Rd., Suite 200-C
Tallahassee, FL 32303-6374
Phone: 850-224-8207
Fax: 850-681-9364