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The classification of birds on this site follows that used in The SIBLEY Guide to Birds, except that they have been grouped into either Land Birds or Water Birds.

Grebes

Pied-billed Grebe

Pelecaniformes

Anhinga, Boobies (Brown, Masked), Cormorant, Frigatebird, Pelicans (Brown, White)

Wading Birds

Bitterns (American), Egrets (Cattle, Great, Reddish, Snowy), Herons (Great Blue, Little Blue, Green, Tricolored, Black-crowned Night, Yellow-crowned Night), Ibises (Glossy, White, White-faced), Spoonbill, Stork

Gruiformes

Purple Gallinule, Limpkin, American Coot, Common Moorhen, Sandhill Crane, Rails (Clapper)

Ducks

Ducks (Black-bellied Whistling, Mottled, Muscovy, Ring-necked, Ruddy, Wood), Mergansers (Hooded, Red-breasted), Redhead, Shoveler (Northern), Teal (Blue-winged, Green-winged), Wigeons (American)

Shorebirds

Curlews (Long-billed Curlew); Dowitchers (Short-billed); Dunlin; Godwits (Marbled); Killdeer; Knot (Red), Oystercatchers (American); Plovers (Black-bellied, Piping, Semipalmated, Snowy, Wilson's); Sanderling; Sandpipers (Least, Purple, Spotted, Western);  Stilt, Black-necked; Turnstones (Ruddy); Whimbrel; Willet; Yellowlegs (Great, Lesser)

Swans

Swans (Black, Black-necked, Mute)

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

Gulls (Greater Black-backed, Heerman's, Herring, Laughing, Ring-billed); Noddy (Brown); Terns (Forster's, Least, Royal, Sandwich, Sooty); Skimmer, Black

 

 

 

 

 

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