FLORIDA!!! Life birds, dragonflies, butterflies, and plants galore!!!

Lookin' for work and visiting Mom... what a great way to spend a few weeks in August. So many people helped me narrow down choices for where to visit. I especially appreciate the help of Bill Phelan of Tallahassee, who gave up his migrant search to help me find many life birds at St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. 31 life birds for the trip!

Florida Landscapes       Bird Photos     Butterfly Gallery     Dragonfly Gallery     Mammal Gallery     Reptile Gallery

Posted below are the lists of species seen... plus thumbnails of many species photos taken during my trip!

BIRDS

   AMPHIBIANS  
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

Squirrel Treefrog
Fulvous Whistling-Duck (captive)

REPTILES
Muscovy Duck Brown Anole
Mallard Green Anole
Blue-winged Teal Southeastern Five-lined Skink
Wood Duck Six-lined Racerunner
Common Peafowl Florida banded watersnake
Wild Turkey Southern Black Racer
Pied-billed Grebe American Alligator
American White Pelican Florida Softshell
Brown Pelican Peninsula Cooter
Double-crested Cormorant

Florida Red-bellied Turtle
Anhinga Florida Chicken Turtle
Least Bittern Pond Slider
Great Blue Heron

BUTTERFLIES
Great Egret

Pipevine Swallowtail
Snowy Egret

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Little Blue Heron

Black Swallowtail
Tricolored Heron Palamedes Swallowtail
Reddish Egret Cloudless Sulphur
Cattle Egret Little Yellow
Green Heron Gray Hairstreak
Black-crowned Night-Heron 

Gulf Fritillary
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Carolina Satyr
White Ibis

Common Buckeye
Glossy Ibis Zebra Heliconian
Roseate Spoonbill Hackberry Emperor
Wood Stork Monarch
Black Vulture Queen
Turkey Vulture Southern Broken Dash
Osprey Fiery Skipper
Swallow-tailed Kite Ocala Skipper
Mississippi Kite Long-tailed Skipper
Bald Eagle Horace's Duskywing
Cooper’s Hawk

Mammals
Red-shouldered Hawk

Nine-banded Armadillo
American Kestrel

Key Deer - captive
Purple Gallinule Raccoon
Common Moorhen River Otter - captive
Black-bellied Plover Gray Fox
Semipalmated Plover

Red Fox - captive
Killdeer

Florida Panther - captive
American Oystercatcher

Hippopotamus - captive
Black-necked Stilt

Cattle
Spotted Sandpiper

Horse
Solitary Sandpiper

White-tailed Deer
Greater Yellowlegs

Florida Manatee - captive
Willet

Bottle-nosed Dolphin
Lesser Yellowlegs Eastern Gray Squirrel
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Greater Black-backed Gull
Laughing Gull
Least Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Forster’s Tern
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Black Skimmer
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Black-hooded Parakeet
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Barred Owl
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Gray Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Summer Tanager
Eastern Towhee
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Purple Finch
House Finch
House Sparrow
  

A series of simple checklists for use in the field    

Kern Amphibian Checklist     Kern Bird Checklist     Kern Butterfly Checklist     Tulare Butterfly Checklist     Kern Dragonfly Checklist     Kern Fish Checklist     Kern Mammal Checklist     Kern Reptile Checklist

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