Field Vert Birds

Front 1

Black Crowned Night Heron

Back 1

Nycticorax nycticorax

S small stocky heron with short legs.

Front 2

Yellow Crowned Night Heron

Back 2

Nyctanassa violacea

Similar to Black crowned Night Heron but with a a yellow crown, a white cheek streak, and gray back

Front 3

Wood Stork

Back 3

Mycteria americana

A large white hron like bird with a d dark naked head
Under side of wings black, and black tail.
Keeps head down and walks when feeding
Endangered.

Front 4

Canada Goose

Back 4

Branta canadensis

A gray goose with a black head and neck and a white chin stripe.

Front 5

Snow Goose

Back 5

Chen caerulescens

A white goose with black primaries

Or a blue gray goose with a white neck or head

Front 6

Mallard

Back 6

Anas platyrhynchos

Male has a green head and white neckband.
Female is brown.
Both sexes have an iridescent blue area near the rear edge of the wing.

Front 7

Wood duck

Back 7

Aix sponosa

Male is brightly olored and iridescent.
Both female and male have crests.
Female is dull colored with a white eye patch.

Front 8

Turkey Vulture

Back 8

Cathartes aura

Bare red head

Soars with wings in a slight v shape.

Front 9

Black Vulture

Back 9

Coragyps atratus

Bare black head.
Soars with wings straight.

Front 10

Swallow Tailed Kite

Back 10

Elanoides forficatus

Black upper parts, white head and underneath.

Tail deeply forked

Found around water

Front 11

Mississippi Kite

Back 11

Black upper parts, gray head and underneath
Tail square and black
No other falkcon like bird has a ...

Front 12

Cooper's Hawk

Back 12

Accipiter coperii

A crow sized hawk with a small head, short rounded wings and a rounded tail with dark bands beneath.
Gray above and rusty barred beneath.
A woodland hawk.

Front 13

Red Tailed Hawk

Back 13

A large hawk, brown above and white barred with black on the belly. Tail reddish.

Front 14

Red Shouldered Hawk

Back 14

Buteo lineatus

A large hawk with a brown body and wings and tail black and white striped
Reddish shoulder patches

Front 15

Bald Eagle

Back 15

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

A large bird.
Head and tail white, body dark.
Immature lack white markings.

Front 16

Osprey

Back 16

Pandion haliaetus

Dark above, with white underparts
A white head with a dark cheek stripe.
Found around water.

Front 17

American Kestrel

Back 17

Falco sparverius

A jay sized bird with rufous back and tail ending in a black bar.
Black stripes under the eyes and black sideburns.

Front 18

Bobwhite

Back 18

Colinus virginianus

Male has a white cheek and brow stripe, brownish in female.

Front 19

Turkey

Back 19

Meleagris gallopavo

Large chicken like birds with naked heads who spend most of the time on the ground.
Travel in flocks.
Male has wattles, beard on breast, and large fan like tail.

Front 20

Eastern Kingbird

Back 20

Tyranus tyranus

Front 21

Eastern Wood Pewee

Back 21

Cotopus virens
A small dark gray flycatcher

Front 22

Barn Swallow

Back 22

Hirundo rustica

Slim birds with long pointed wings, forked tails, short bills with a wide gape, and short legs.

Black above, tan below. Build a mud nest under bridges.

Front 23

Purple Martin

Back 23

Progne subis

Males uniformly black, females with gray belly and throat.

Front 24

Blue Jay

Back 24

Cyanocitta cristata

Blue above with a blue crest
A black ring cricles the neck.
Gray beneath.

Front 25

Common Crow

Back 25

Corvus brachyrhynchos

Front 26

Fish Crow

Back 26

Corvus ossifragus
Large black bird with black legs and black wings.
Found around areas of water

Front 27

Carolina chickadee

Back 27

Parus carolinensis

A gray bird with a black cap and black bib.

Cheek white.

Front 28

Tufted titmouse

Back 28

Parus bicolor

A gray bird with a gray crest.
Flanks rusty.

Front 29

Brown-headed Nuthatch

Back 29

Sitta pusilla

A small bird with a brown cap, white undersides, and gray back.

Two toes forward, two back.

Front 30

Carolina Wren

Back 30

Thryothorus ludovicianus

Small energetic brown birds.

Slender, curved bill, and tail often carried erect. Reddish brown above, bluff below with a white eye brow stripe.

Front 31

Mockingbird

Back 31

Mimus polyglottos

Medium sized birds.

Excellent singers who often mimic the songs of other birds.

A gray bird with large white patches on wings and tail visible in flight.

Common around homes.

Front 32

Grey Catbird

Back 32

Dumetella carolinensis

Darker gray than a mocking bird with a black cap.

Song a catlike mewing.

Front 33

Brown thrasher

Back 33

Toxostoma rufum

Resembles a thrush but larger.

Has wing bars and a striped not spotted breast.

Front 34

American Robin

Back 34

Turdua migratorius

Gray back, red breast.
Female duller than male.
Has a white eye ring.
Often seen in grassy areas in large flock before winter storms.

Front 35

Eastern Bluebird

Back 35

Sialia sialis

A blue bird with a rusty breast.

Female duller than male.

Front 36

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Back 36

Polioptila caerulea

A small gray bird with a long black and white tail.

Has a white eye ring

Front 37

Cedar Waxwing

Back 37

Bombycilla cedrorum

Grayish brown birds with a crest, a black eye stripe, and a yellow bar on the end of the tail.

Often seen in large flocks in late inter or early spring feeding on the fruit of privet, hollies, and smilax.

Front 38

Loggerhead Shrike

Back 38

Lanius ludovicianus

Gray birds with a black mask, hooked bill, black wings, and a black tail edged in white.

Front 39

Starling

Back 39

Sturnus vulgaris

A blackbird like iridescent, white spotted bird.
Bill dark in winter, yellow in summer.
Often seen in flocks mixed with other blackbirds.

Front 40

White eyed Vireo

Back 40

Vireo griseus

Small olive gray birds with slightly curved bills.

With yellow spectacles.

Front 41

Red eyed Vireo

Back 41

Viro olivaceus

An olive bird with a gray cap, and a black lined white eye stripe.

Front 42

Pine Warbler

Back 42

Dendroica pinus

Olive above, with a yellow breast.
Has two white wing bars.
Found in open pine woods.

Front 43

House Sparrow

Back 43

Passer domesticus

Small brown birds with thick bills.
Males have a black throat, and white cheeks.
Common in parking lots.
Builds nest under awnings and behind signs.

Front 44

Eastern Meadowlark

Back 44

Sturnella magna

A brownish bird with a yellow breast, and a black bib.
Found in open grassy areas.

Front 45

Red-winged blackbird

Back 45

Agelaius phoeniceus

Male black with red and yellow epaulets.

Female dull brown.

Front 46

Common Grackle

Back 46

Quiscalus quiscula

A large iridescent black bird with a broad tail.

Front 47

Brown-headed Cowbird

Back 47

Molothrus ater

Male is a small black bird with a brown head.
Female is gray.
Often seen feeding on the ground near livestock.
A nest parasite

Front 48

Summer Tanager

Back 48

Piranga rubra

Males brightly colored, females greenish above, yellowish below.
Lack a crest and paler than a cardinal.

Front 49

Cardinal

Back 49

Cardinalis cardinalis

Male red with a crest and a black throat patch.
Bill Reddish
Female similar but brownish.

Front 50

Indigo Bunting

Back 50

Passerina cyanea
Males blue with black in wings

Front 51

Rufous-sided Towhee

Back 51

Pipilo erythrophthalmus

Black above, white below with a brownish side stripe.
Often seen scratching in dead leaves.

Front 52

Order Podicipediformes
Family Podicipedidae
Pied-billed Grebe

Back 52

Podilymbus podiceps

Front 53

Order Pelecaniformes
Family pelecanidae
Brown Pelican

Back 53

Pelecanus occidentalis

Front 54

Family Anhingidae
Anhinga

Back 54

Anhinga anhinga

Front 55

Order Cicconiformes
Family Ardeidae

Back 55

Herons and egrets

Front 56

Great Blue Heron

Back 56

Ardea herodias

Front 57

Green Heron

Back 57

Butorides virescens

Front 58

Little Blue Heron

Back 58

Florida caerulea

Front 59

Cattle egret

Back 59

Bibulcus ibis

Front 60

Great Egret

Back 60

Casmerodius albus

Front 61

Order Gruiformes
Family Ralidae
Common Gallinule

Back 61

Gallinula chloropus

Front 62

American Coot

Back 62

Fulica americana

Front 63

Order Charadriiformes
Family Charadriinae
Killdeer

Back 63

Charadrius vociferus

Front 64

Family Laridae
Herring Gull

Back 64

Larus argentatus

Front 65

Order Columbiformes

Back 65

Doves and Pidgeons

Front 66

Family Columbidae
Rock Dove

Back 66

Columba livia

Front 67

Eurasian collared-dove

Back 67

Streptopelia decaocto

Front 68

White-winged dove

Back 68

Zenaida asiatica

Front 69

Morning Dove

Back 69

Zenaida macroura

Front 70

Passenger Pidgeon
(extinct)

Back 70

Ectopistes migratorius

Front 71

Ground Dove

Back 71

Columbina passerina

Front 72

Order Psittaciformes
Family psittacidae

Back 72

Parakeet

Front 73

Carolina Parakeet
(extinct)

Back 73

Conuropsis carolinensis

Front 74

Order Cuculiformes

Back 74

The cuckoos!

Front 75

Family Cuculidae
Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Back 75

Coccyzus americanus

Front 76

Order Strigiformes

Back 76

The owls

Front 77

Family Tytonidae
Barn Owl

Back 77

Tyto alba

Front 78

Family Strigidae
Barred Owl

Back 78

Strix varia

Front 79

Screech Owl

Back 79

Otus Asio