BIRDS
The Common Birds Of Clam Bay (Beach to the Berm):
Yellow-Crowned Night Herons, Len Rothman
Anhinga
Northern Cardinal
Gray Catbird
Double-crested Cormorant
Fish Crow
Mourning Dove
Mottled Duck
Muscovy Duck
Dunlin
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Great Crested Flycatcher
Common Gallinule
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Common Grackle
Herring Gull
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
White Ibis
Blue Jay
Kildeer
Red Knot
Northern Mockingbird
Osprey
Brown Pelican
Black-bellied Plover
Sanderling
Spotted Sandpiper
Black Skimmer
Roseate Spoonbill
Wood Stork
Forster’s Tern
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Tufted Titmouse
Ruddy Turnstone
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Palm Warbler
Willet
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Other Common Birds of Pelican Bay:
Red-Winged Blackbird
American Crow
Eurasian Collared Dove
Cattle Egret
Boat-tailed Grackle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Swallow-tailed Kite
European Starling
House Sparrow
Blue-winged Teal
Brown Thrasher
Blue Headed Vireo
Black-and-white Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Downy Woodpecker
Carolina Wren
Common Yellowthroat
Less Frequently Seen Birds of Pelican and Clam Bays:
Painted Bunting
Chuck-will’s-widow (after dusk)
American Coot
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Ground Dove
White-winged Dove
Wood Duck
Bald Eagle
Peregrine Falcon
Lesser Black-Backed Gull
Northern Flicker
Magnificent Frigatebird
Purple Gallinule
Northern Gannett
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Eastern Phoebe
American Robin
Caspian Tern
Rare Sightings:
Mangrove Cuckoo
Bonaparte Gull
Short-tailed Hawk
Glossy Ibis
Limpkin
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted
Merlin
Eastern Screech Owl
Great Horned Owl
Northern Parula
American White Pelican
Piping Plover
Semipalmated Plover
American Redstart
Solitary Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Loggerhead Shrike
Sora
Tree Swallow
Blue-winged Teal
Green-winged Teal
Northern Cardinal
Gray Catbird
Double-crested Cormorant
Fish Crow
Mourning Dove
Mottled Duck
Muscovy Duck
Dunlin
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Great Crested Flycatcher
Common Gallinule
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Common Grackle
Herring Gull
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
White Ibis
Blue Jay
Kildeer
Red Knot
Northern Mockingbird
Osprey
Brown Pelican
Black-bellied Plover
Sanderling
Spotted Sandpiper
Black Skimmer
Roseate Spoonbill
Wood Stork
Forster’s Tern
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Tufted Titmouse
Ruddy Turnstone
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Palm Warbler
Willet
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Other Common Birds of Pelican Bay:
Red-Winged Blackbird
American Crow
Eurasian Collared Dove
Cattle Egret
Boat-tailed Grackle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Swallow-tailed Kite
European Starling
House Sparrow
Blue-winged Teal
Brown Thrasher
Blue Headed Vireo
Black-and-white Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Downy Woodpecker
Carolina Wren
Common Yellowthroat
Less Frequently Seen Birds of Pelican and Clam Bays:
Painted Bunting
Chuck-will’s-widow (after dusk)
American Coot
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Ground Dove
White-winged Dove
Wood Duck
Bald Eagle
Peregrine Falcon
Lesser Black-Backed Gull
Northern Flicker
Magnificent Frigatebird
Purple Gallinule
Northern Gannett
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Eastern Phoebe
American Robin
Caspian Tern
Rare Sightings:
Mangrove Cuckoo
Bonaparte Gull
Short-tailed Hawk
Glossy Ibis
Limpkin
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted
Merlin
Eastern Screech Owl
Great Horned Owl
Northern Parula
American White Pelican
Piping Plover
Semipalmated Plover
American Redstart
Solitary Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Loggerhead Shrike
Sora
Tree Swallow
Blue-winged Teal
Green-winged Teal
Notes:
Because of migratory patterns frequency of sightings will vary seasonally. Many birds are seen in both Clam Bay and Pelican Bay.
List compiled by Len Rothman, with the aid of recollections by Tom Cravens and Judy Rothman.
Because of migratory patterns frequency of sightings will vary seasonally. Many birds are seen in both Clam Bay and Pelican Bay.
List compiled by Len Rothman, with the aid of recollections by Tom Cravens and Judy Rothman.