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The northern mockingbird is the state bird of Florida. This list of birds of Florida includes species documented in the U.S. state of Florida and accepted by the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee (FOSRC). As of November 2022, there were 539 species included in the official list. [1]
Nightjars are medium-sized nocturnal birds that usually nest on the ground. They have long wings, short legs, and very short bills. Most have small feet, of little use for walking, and long pointed wings. Their soft plumage is cryptically colored to resemble bark or leaves. Lesser nighthawk, Chordeiles acutipennis; Common nighthawk, Chordeiles ...
The little egret (Egretta garzetta) is a species of small heron in the family Ardeidae. It is a white bird with a slender black beak, long black legs and, in the western race, yellow feet. As an aquatic bird, it feeds in shallow water and on land, consuming a variety of small creatures.
When driving along South Carolina’s coastal waterways, wetlands and estuaries, you may find yourself spotting a small, strange-looking bird with a long, curved beak. Those little birds are white ...
There was a brown bird nibbling at the wild bird seed with a bright red head, she told McClatchy News in an interview. The only problem was its size. It was much too small to be a woodpecker.
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The American white ibis (Eudocimus albus) is a species of bird in the ibis family, Threskiornithidae.It is found from the southern half of the US East Coast (from southern New Jersey, Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia), along the Gulf Coast states (Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas) and south through most of the Caribbean coastal regions of Central America. [2]
This subfamily contains around 26 species of wading birds with long, thin, down-curved beaks, ranging in size from medium to large. [4] [17] These species rarely have a voice box, and if one is present, the bird only croaks or cackles harshly. [17] Historically, ibises are an ancient group.