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56 birds in southern Florida

I'm a casual birdwatcher who enjoys exercising. I might misidentify a bird or two, but I won't lose any sleep over it. Birdwatching is a decent recreation, as long as non-human animals don't start popping up artificially dyed. Ellyn Bogdanoff (1959-10-17) is responsible for putting amendment 303390 in Florida House Bill 1197 of 2012. Her amendment repealed the ban on "artificial dying or coloring of certain animals or fowl," because it was approved by the governor.

Family Bird  Corvidae  The American crow  Corvidae  The blue jay  Anhingidae  The anhinga  Cathartidae  The black vulture  Cathartidae  The turkey vulture  Icteridae  The boat-tailed grackle  Icteridae  The red-winged blackbird  Icteridae  The common grackle  Icteridae  The eastern meadowlark  Icteridae  The brown-headed cowbird  Pelecanidae  The brown pelican  Mimidae  The brown thrasher  Mimidae  The gray catbird  Mimidae  The northern mockingbird  Tytonidae  The burrowing owl  Tytonidae  The great horned owl  Ardeidae  The great blue heron  Ardeidae  The green heron  Ardeidae  The cattle egret  Ardeidae  The little blue heron  Ardeidae  The snowy egret  Ardeidae  The tricolored heron  Ardeidae  The yellow-crowned night-heron  Ardeidae  The great egret  Phalacrocoracidae  The double-crested cormorant  Columbidae  The Eurasian collared-dove  Columbidae  The mourning dove  Columbidae  The common ground-dove  Columbidae  The feral pigeon  Sturnidae  The European starling  Phasianidae  The feral chicken  Phasianidae  The northern bobwhite  Passeridae  The house sparrow  Charadriidae  The killdeer  Laniidae  The loggerhead shrike  Anatidae  The Muscovy duck  Anatidae  The mottled duck  Cardinalidae  The northern cardinal  Accipitridae  The osprey  Accipitridae  The snail kite  Accipitridae  The bald eagle  Accipitridae  The red-shouldered hawk  Parulidae  The palm warbler  Parulidae  The yellow-rumped warbler  Picidae  The red-bellied woodpecker  Picidae  The pileated woodpecker  Picidae  The downy woodpecker  Picidae  The red-headed woodpecker  Laridae  The ring-billed gull  Threskiornithidae  The white ibis  Ciconiidae  The wood stork  Podicipedidae  The pied-billed grebe  Vireonidae  The yellow-throated vireo  Aramidae  The limpkin  Falconidae  The American kestrel  Psittacidae  The monk parakeet

Here are my pictures of birds:

Family: Corvidae The American crow I took this picture on 2020-03-24. The blue jay I took this picture on 2021-07-31.

Family: Anhingidae The anhinga I took the picture on the left on 2019-02-27, and I took the picture on the right on 2019-02-19. (The anhinga on the left is a male, and the anhinga on the right is a female.)

Family: Cathartidae The black vulture I took this picture on 2020-02-07. I took this picture on 2020-04-12. The turkey vulture I took this picture on 2019-10-21.

Family: Icteridae The boat-tailed grackle I took the picture on the left on 2017-05-19, and I took the picture on the right on 2017-05-21. (The boat-tailed grackle on the left is a male, and the boat-tailed grackle on the right is a female.) The red-winged blackbird I took this picture on 2021-03-24. The common grackle I took this picture on 2019-02-26. The eastern meadowlark I took this picture on 2019-02-19. I took this picture on 2019-10-21. The brown-headed cowbird I took the picture on the left on 2019-02-26, and I took the picture on the right on 2019-02-25. (The brown-headed cowbird on the left is a male, and the brown-headed cowbird on the right is a female.)

Family: Pelecanidae The brown pelican I took this picture on 2022-12-02.

Family: Mimidae The brown thrasher I took this picture on 2019-03-01. I took these two pictures on 2017-06-02. The gray catbird I took this picture on 2019-10-14. The northern mockingbird I took this picture on 2020-02-10.

Family: Tytonidae The burrowing owl I took these two pictures on 2017-04-04. I took this picture on 2020-03-24. I took this picture on 2023-06-19. I took this picture on 2023-06-19. I took this picture on 2023-06-25. I took this picture on 2025-04-08. The great horned owl I took these two pictures on 2019-02-18.

Family: Ardeidae The great blue heron I took this picture on 2019-02-28. I took this picture on 2022-12-17. I took this picture on 2024-10-10. The green heron I took this picture on 2023-06-14. I took this picture on 2023-07-24. The cattle egret I took these two pictures on 2025-02-26. I took this picture on 2025-03-08. The little blue heron I took these two pictures on 2017-06-14. I took these two pictures on 2019-02-25. I took this picture on 2023-02-26. The snowy egret I took these two pictures on 2017-05-23. The tricolored heron I took this picture on 2025-02-27. The yellow-crowned night-heron I took this picture on 2023-06-14. The great egret I took this picture on 2024-01-06.

Family: Phalacrocoracidae The double-crested cormorant I took these two pictures on 2013-12-27. I took these two pictures on 2019-02-28.

Family: Columbidae The Eurasian collared-dove I took this picture on 2019-02-22. I took this picture on 2025-03-10. The mourning dove I took this picture on 2019-02-25. The common ground-dove I took this picture on 2023-06-21. The feral pigeon I took these two pictures on 2017-05-23. I took this picture on 2021-10-27.

Family: Sturnidae The European starling I took this picture on 2019-02-28. I took this picture on 2025-03-10.

Family: Phasianidae The feral chicken I took these two pictures on 2016-09-16. The northern bobwhite I took these two pictures on 2019-10-20. I took these two pictures on 2019-10-20.

Family: Passeridae The house sparrow I took the picture on the left on 2019-02-27, and I took the picture on the right on 2019-02-23. (The house sparrow on the left is a male, and the house sparrow on the right is a female.)

Family: Charadriidae The killdeer I took this picture on 2021-06-04.

Family: Laniidae The loggerhead shrike I took this picture on 2019-10-14. I took this picture on 2019-10-22. I took this picture on 2025-03-08.

Family: Anatidae The Muscovy duck I took this picture on 2019-10-20. I took this picture on 2022-06-25. The mottled duck I took these two pictures on 2019-10-20.

Family: Cardinalidae The northern cardinal I took the picture on the left on 2019-03-01, and I took the picture on the right on 2019-02-19. (The northern cardinal on the left is a male, and the northern cardinal on the right is a female.) I took the picture on the left on 2023-06-21, and I took the picture on the right on 2020-11-01. (The northern cardinal on the left is a male, and the northern cardinal on the right is a female.) I took this picture on 2024-08-07.

Family: Accipitridae The osprey I took this picture on 2022-09-29. I took these two pictures on 2022-12-24. I took this picture on 2023-06-21. The snail kite I took these two pictures on 2024-01-10. The bald eagle I took these three pictures on 2019-03-02. I took these two pictures on 2020-04-05. The red-shouldered hawk I took these two pictures on 2019-10-20. I took these two pictures on 2019-10-22.

Family: Parulidae The palm warbler I took these two pictures on 2019-02-22. The yellow-rumped warbler I took these two pictures on 2019-02-25.

Family: Picidae The red-bellied woodpecker I took these two pictures on 2021-01-27. I took these two pictures on 2023-02-26. I took these two pictures on 2025-04-08. The pileated woodpecker I took these two pictures on 2019-10-20. I took these two pictures on 2022-12-16. The downy woodpecker I took these two pictures on 2023-04-11. The red-headed woodpecker I took these two pictures on 2023-06-21. I took these two pictures on 2023-06-22. I took these two pictures on 2023-06-25.

Family: Laridae The ring-billed gull I took this picture on 2019-02-18.

Family: Threskiornithidae The white ibis I took this picture on 2019-02-19. I took this picture on 2021-03-02.

Family: Ciconiidae The wood stork I took this picture on 2025-03-15.

Family: Podicipedidae The pied-billed grebe I took this picture on 2025-03-08.

Family: Vireonidae The yellow-throated vireo I took these two pictures on 2019-10-22.

Family: Aramidae The limpkin I took these two pictures on 2020-02-16. I took this picture on 2020-02-24. I took this picture on 2020-04-05. I took this picture on 2025-03-08. I took this picture on 2025-03-10.

Family: Falconidae The American kestrel I took this picture on 2025-01-14.

Family: Psittacidae The monk parakeet I took this picture on 2024-02-02.