February Checklist for
Fort Pulaski National Monument, GA |
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Waterfowl |
______ Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
______ Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (fulgens)
______ Fulvous Whistling-Duck
______ Snow Goose
______ Ross's Goose
______ Snow x Ross's Goose (hybrid)
______ Snow/Ross's Goose
______ Greater White-fronted Goose
______ Greater White-fronted Goose (Western)
______ Domestic goose sp. (Domestic type)
______ Brant
______ Canada Goose
______ goose sp.
______ Mute Swan
______ Tundra Swan
______ Tundra Swan (Whistling)
______ Egyptian Goose
______ Muscovy Duck (Domestic type)
______ Wood Duck
______ Blue-winged Teal
______ Cinnamon Teal
______ Blue-winged x Cinnamon Teal (hybrid)
______ Northern Shoveler
______ Gadwall
______ Eurasian Wigeon
______ American Wigeon
______ Mallard
______ Mallard (Northern)
______ Mallard (Domestic type)
______ American Black Duck
______ Mottled Duck
______ Mallard x Mottled Duck (hybrid)
______ Mallard/Mottled Duck
______ American Black/Mottled Duck
| ______ Northern Pintail
______ Green-winged Teal
______ Green-winged Teal (American)
______ teal sp.
______ dabbling duck sp.
______ Canvasback
______ Redhead
______ Ring-necked Duck
______ Greater Scaup
______ Lesser Scaup
______ Greater/Lesser Scaup
______ Aythya sp.
______ King Eider
______ Common Eider
______ Common Eider (Dresser's)
______ Harlequin Duck
______ Surf Scoter
______ White-winged Scoter
______ White-winged Scoter (North American)
______ Black Scoter
______ Surf/Black Scoter
______ scoter sp.
______ Long-tailed Duck
______ Bufflehead
______ Common Goldeneye
______ Hooded Merganser
______ Common Merganser
______ Common Merganser (North American)
______ Red-breasted Merganser
______ Common/Red-breasted Merganser
______ Ruddy Duck
______ Ruddy Duck (Ruddy)
______ duck sp.
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Chachalacas, Guans, and Curassows |
______ Plain Chachalaca
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Grouse, Quail, and Allies |
______ Northern Bobwhite
| ______ Wild Turkey
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Loons and Grebes |
______ Red-throated Loon
______ Pacific Loon
______ Common Loon
______ loon sp.
______ Pied-billed Grebe
| ______ Horned Grebe
______ Red-necked Grebe
______ Eared Grebe
______ Western Grebe
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Albatrosses, Petrels, Shearwaters, and Diving-Petrels |
______ Black-capped Petrel
______ Black-capped Petrel (White-faced)
______ Black-capped Petrel (Dark-faced)
______ Cory's Shearwater
______ Cory's Shearwater (Scopoli's)
______ Cory's Shearwater (borealis)
| ______ Great Shearwater
______ Sooty Shearwater
______ Manx Shearwater
______ Audubon's Shearwater
______ black-and-white shearwater sp.
______ shearwater sp.
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Storm-Petrels |
______ Wilson's Storm-Petrel
______ Leach's Storm-Petrel
| ______ Leach's Storm-Petrel (Leach's)
______ Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
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Tropicbirds |
______ White-tailed Tropicbird
| ______ Red-billed Tropicbird
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Storks |
______ Wood Stork
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Frigatebirds, Boobies, and Gannets |
______ Magnificent Frigatebird
______ Masked Booby
______ Brown Booby
| ______ Red-footed Booby
______ Northern Gannet
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Cormorants and Anhingas |
______ Great Cormorant
______ Double-crested Cormorant
| ______ Anhinga
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Pelicans |
______ American White Pelican
| ______ Brown Pelican
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Herons, Ibis, and Allies |
______ American Bittern
______ Least Bittern
______ Great Blue Heron
______ Great Blue Heron (Blue form)
______ Great Egret
______ Snowy Egret
______ Little Blue Heron
______ Tricolored Heron
______ Reddish Egret
| ______ Cattle Egret
______ Cattle Egret (Western)
______ Green Heron
______ Black-crowned Night-Heron
______ Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
______ White Ibis
______ Glossy Ibis
______ White-faced Ibis
______ Roseate Spoonbill
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Vultures, Hawks, and Allies |
______ Black Vulture
______ Turkey Vulture
______ Osprey
______ Osprey (carolinensis)
______ Swallow-tailed Kite
______ Golden Eagle
______ Mississippi Kite
______ Northern Harrier
______ Sharp-shinned Hawk
______ Sharp-shinned Hawk (Northern)
______ Cooper's Hawk
______ Sharp-shinned/Cooper's Hawk
| ______ Bald Eagle
______ Red-shouldered Hawk
______ Red-shouldered Hawk (lineatus Group)
______ Broad-winged Hawk
______ Short-tailed Hawk
______ Red-tailed Hawk
______ Red-tailed Hawk (calurus/alascensis)
______ Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)
______ Red-tailed Hawk (abieticola)
______ Red-tailed Hawk (Krider's)
______ Buteo sp.
______ hawk sp.
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Rails, Gallinules, and Allies |
______ Yellow Rail
______ Black Rail
______ King Rail
______ Clapper Rail
______ Clapper Rail (Atlantic Coast)
______ King/Clapper Rail
______ Virginia Rail
| ______ Virginia Rail (Virginia)
______ Sora
______ Purple Gallinule
______ Common Gallinule
______ American Coot
______ American Coot (Red-shielded)
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Limpkin |
______ Limpkin
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Cranes |
______ Sandhill Crane
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Shorebirds |
______ Black-necked Stilt
______ Black-necked Stilt (Black-necked)
______ American Avocet
______ American Oystercatcher
______ Black-bellied Plover
______ American Golden-Plover
______ Black-bellied Plover/golden-plover sp.
______ Snowy Plover
______ Wilson's Plover
______ Semipalmated Plover
______ Piping Plover
______ Killdeer
______ Upland Sandpiper
______ Whimbrel
______ Whimbrel (Hudsonian)
______ Long-billed Curlew
______ Hudsonian Godwit
______ Marbled Godwit
______ Ruddy Turnstone
______ Red Knot
______ Ruff
______ Stilt Sandpiper
______ Curlew Sandpiper
______ Sanderling
______ Dunlin
______ Purple Sandpiper
______ Baird's Sandpiper
______ Least Sandpiper
| ______ White-rumped Sandpiper
______ Buff-breasted Sandpiper
______ Pectoral Sandpiper
______ Semipalmated Sandpiper
______ Western Sandpiper
______ Semipalmated/Western Sandpiper
______ peep sp.
______ Short-billed Dowitcher
______ Short-billed Dowitcher (griseus)
______ Short-billed Dowitcher (hendersoni)
______ Long-billed Dowitcher
______ Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher
______ American Woodcock
______ Wilson's Snipe
______ Wilson's Phalarope
______ Red-necked Phalarope
______ Red Phalarope
______ Red-necked/Red Phalarope
______ Spotted Sandpiper
______ Solitary Sandpiper
______ Solitary Sandpiper (solitaria)
______ Greater Yellowlegs
______ Willet
______ Willet (Eastern)
______ Willet (Western)
______ Lesser Yellowlegs
______ Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs
______ shorebird sp.
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Skuas and Jaegers |
______ South Polar Skua
______ Pomarine Jaeger
______ Parasitic Jaeger
| ______ Pomarine/Parasitic Jaeger
______ Long-tailed Jaeger
______ jaeger sp.
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Alcids |
______ Dovekie
| ______ Razorbill
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Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers |
______ Black-legged Kittiwake
______ Sabine's Gull
______ Bonaparte's Gull
______ Black-headed Gull
______ Little Gull
______ Laughing Gull
______ Franklin's Gull
______ Ring-billed Gull
______ California Gull
______ Herring Gull
______ Herring Gull (American)
______ Iceland Gull
______ Lesser Black-backed Gull
______ Glaucous Gull
______ Great Black-backed Gull
______ gull sp.
| ______ Brown Noddy
______ Sooty Tern
______ Bridled Tern
______ Least Tern
______ Gull-billed Tern
______ Caspian Tern
______ Black Tern
______ Roseate Tern
______ Common Tern
______ Arctic Tern
______ Forster's Tern
______ Common/Forster's Tern
______ Royal Tern
______ Sandwich Tern
______ Black Skimmer
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Pigeons and Doves |
______ Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
______ Eurasian Collared-Dove
______ Common Ground-Dove
| ______ White-winged Dove
______ Mourning Dove
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Cuckoos |
______ Smooth-billed Ani
______ Yellow-billed Cuckoo
| ______ Black-billed Cuckoo
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Owls |
______ Barn Owl
______ Barn Owl (American)
______ Eastern Screech-Owl
______ Eastern Screech-Owl (Northern)
______ Great Horned Owl
______ Snowy Owl
| ______ Burrowing Owl
______ Barred Owl
______ Barred Owl (Northern)
______ Long-eared Owl
______ Short-eared Owl
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Nightjars |
______ Common Nighthawk
______ Chuck-will's-widow
| ______ Eastern Whip-poor-will
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Swifts |
______ Chimney Swift
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Hummingbirds |
______ Rivoli's Hummingbird
______ Ruby-throated Hummingbird
______ Black-chinned Hummingbird
______ Ruby-throated/Black-chinned Hummingbird
______ Rufous Hummingbird
| ______ Rufous/Allen's Hummingbird
______ Calliope Hummingbird
______ Broad-billed Hummingbird
______ Buff-bellied Hummingbird
______ hummingbird sp.
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Kingfishers |
______ Belted Kingfisher
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Woodpeckers |
______ Red-headed Woodpecker
______ Red-bellied Woodpecker
______ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
______ Downy Woodpecker
______ Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)
______ Hairy Woodpecker
| ______ Downy/Hairy Woodpecker
______ Red-cockaded Woodpecker
______ Northern Flicker
______ Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)
______ Pileated Woodpecker
______ woodpecker sp.
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Falcons and Caracaras |
______ American Kestrel
______ Merlin
| ______ Peregrine Falcon
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Tyrant Flycatchers: Pewees, Kingbirds, and Allies |
______ Olive-sided Flycatcher
______ Eastern Wood-Pewee
______ Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
______ Acadian Flycatcher
______ Alder Flycatcher
______ Willow Flycatcher
______ Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's Flycatcher)
______ Least Flycatcher
______ Dusky Flycatcher
______ Empidonax sp.
| ______ Eastern Phoebe
______ Vermilion Flycatcher
______ Ash-throated Flycatcher
______ Great Crested Flycatcher
______ Western Kingbird
______ Eastern Kingbird
______ Gray Kingbird
______ Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
______ flycatcher sp. (Tyrannidae sp.)
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Shrikes |
______ Loggerhead Shrike
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Vireos |
______ White-eyed Vireo
______ Bell's Vireo
______ Yellow-throated Vireo
______ Blue-headed Vireo
| ______ Philadelphia Vireo
______ Warbling Vireo
______ Red-eyed Vireo
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Jays, Magpies, Crows, and Ravens |
______ Blue Jay
______ Florida Scrub-Jay
______ American Crow
| ______ Fish Crow
______ crow sp.
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Larks |
______ Horned Lark
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Martins and Swallows |
______ Northern Rough-winged Swallow
______ Purple Martin
______ Tree Swallow
______ Bank Swallow
______ Barn Swallow
______ Barn Swallow (American)
| ______ Cliff Swallow
______ Cliff Swallow (pyrrhonota Group)
______ Cave Swallow
______ Cave Swallow (Texas)
______ Cliff/Cave Swallow
______ swallow sp.
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Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice |
______ Carolina Chickadee
| ______ Tufted Titmouse
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Nuthatches |
______ Red-breasted Nuthatch
______ White-breasted Nuthatch
| ______ White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)
______ Brown-headed Nuthatch
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Treecreepers |
______ Brown Creeper
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Wrens |
______ House Wren
______ House Wren (Northern)
______ Winter Wren
______ Sedge Wren
| ______ Marsh Wren
______ Marsh Wren (palustris Group)
______ Marsh Wren (griseus)
______ Carolina Wren
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Gnatcatchers |
______ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
| ______ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (caerulea)
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Kinglets |
______ Golden-crowned Kinglet
| ______ Ruby-crowned Kinglet
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Old World Flycatchers |
______ Northern Wheatear
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Thrushes |
______ Eastern Bluebird
______ Veery
______ Gray-cheeked Thrush
______ Bicknell's Thrush
______ Gray-cheeked/Bicknell's Thrush
______ Swainson's Thrush
| ______ Swainson's Thrush (Olive-backed)
______ Hermit Thrush
______ Hermit Thrush (faxoni/crymophilus)
______ Catharus sp.
______ Wood Thrush
______ American Robin
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Catbirds, Mockingbirds, and Thrashers |
______ Gray Catbird
______ Brown Thrasher
| ______ Northern Mockingbird
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Starlings and Mynas |
______ European Starling
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Wagtails and Pipits |
______ American Pipit
| ______ Sprague's Pipit
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Waxwings |
______ Cedar Waxwing
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Longspurs and Snow Buntings |
______ Lapland Longspur
| ______ Snow Bunting
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Wood-Warblers |
______ Ovenbird
______ Worm-eating Warbler
______ Louisiana Waterthrush
______ Northern Waterthrush
______ Louisiana/Northern Waterthrush
______ Golden-winged Warbler
______ Blue-winged Warbler
______ Golden-winged x Blue-winged Warbler (hybrid)
______ Brewster's Warbler (hybrid)
______ Lawrence's Warbler (hybrid)
______ Black-and-white Warbler
______ Prothonotary Warbler
______ Swainson's Warbler
______ Tennessee Warbler
______ Orange-crowned Warbler
______ Nashville Warbler
______ Connecticut Warbler
______ MacGillivray's Warbler
______ Kentucky Warbler
______ Common Yellowthroat
______ Hooded Warbler
______ American Redstart
______ Kirtland's Warbler
______ Cape May Warbler
______ Cerulean Warbler
______ Northern Parula
| ______ Magnolia Warbler
______ Bay-breasted Warbler
______ Blackburnian Warbler
______ Yellow Warbler
______ Yellow Warbler (Northern)
______ Chestnut-sided Warbler
______ Blackpoll Warbler
______ Bay-breasted/Blackpoll Warbler
______ Black-throated Blue Warbler
______ Palm Warbler
______ Palm Warbler (Western)
______ Palm Warbler (Yellow)
______ Pine Warbler
______ Yellow-rumped Warbler
______ Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
______ Yellow-throated Warbler
______ Yellow-throated Warbler (albilora)
______ Yellow-throated Warbler (dominica/stoddardi)
______ Prairie Warbler
______ Black-throated Gray Warbler
______ Townsend's Warbler
______ Black-throated Green Warbler
______ Canada Warbler
______ Wilson's Warbler
______ warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.)
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New World Sparrows |
______ Bachman's Sparrow
______ Grasshopper Sparrow
______ Henslow's Sparrow
______ LeConte's Sparrow
______ Nelson's Sparrow
______ Nelson's Sparrow (Interior)
______ Nelson's Sparrow (Atlantic Coast)
______ Saltmarsh Sparrow
______ Nelson's/Saltmarsh Sparrow (Sharp-tailed Sparrow)
______ Seaside Sparrow
______ Seaside Sparrow (Atlantic)
______ Chipping Sparrow
______ Clay-colored Sparrow
______ Field Sparrow
______ Lark Sparrow
______ Lark Bunting
______ Fox Sparrow
______ Fox Sparrow (Red)
| ______ Dark-eyed Junco
______ Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)
______ White-crowned Sparrow
______ White-crowned Sparrow (leucophrys)
______ Harris's Sparrow
______ White-throated Sparrow
______ Vesper Sparrow
______ Savannah Sparrow
______ Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)
______ Savannah Sparrow (Ipswich)
______ Song Sparrow
______ Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)
______ Lincoln's Sparrow
______ Swamp Sparrow
______ Eastern Towhee
______ Eastern Towhee (Red-eyed)
______ Eastern Towhee (White-eyed)
______ sparrow sp.
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Yellow-breasted Chat |
______ Yellow-breasted Chat
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Cardinals, Grosbeaks, and Allies |
______ Summer Tanager
______ Scarlet Tanager
______ Western Tanager
______ tanager sp. (Piranga sp.)
______ Northern Cardinal
| ______ Rose-breasted Grosbeak
______ Blue Grosbeak
______ Indigo Bunting
______ Painted Bunting
______ Dickcissel
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Blackbirds |
______ Yellow-headed Blackbird
______ Bobolink
______ Western Meadowlark
______ Eastern Meadowlark
______ Eastern Meadowlark (Eastern)
______ Orchard Oriole
______ Bullock's Oriole
______ Baltimore Oriole
______ Red-winged Blackbird
| ______ Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)
______ Shiny Cowbird
______ Brown-headed Cowbird
______ Rusty Blackbird
______ Common Grackle
______ Common Grackle (Purple)
______ Boat-tailed Grackle
______ blackbird sp.
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Finches, Euphonias, and Allies |
______ House Finch
______ Purple Finch
______ Purple Finch (Eastern)
______ House/Purple Finch
| ______ Common Redpoll
______ Pine Siskin
______ American Goldfinch
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Old World Sparrows |
______ House Sparrow
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Others |
______ passerine sp.
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