MatBio: BIRDS - Matanzas Biodiversity

Welcome to our series of field guides - part of the MatBio Initiative at the Whitney Laboratory of Marine Bioscience! Our guides document the plant and animal species living in the Matanzas Basin, a coastal ecosystem stretching from St. Augustine to Palm Coast in NE Florida. They are works in ...more ↓

American Oystercatcher ¹
Haematopus palliatus

Black-necked Stilt ²
Himantopus mexicanus

American Avocet ³
Recurvirostra americana

Semipalmated Plover ⁴
Charadrius semipalmatus

Killdeer ⁵
Charadrius vociferus

Wilson's Plover ⁶
Charadrius wilsonia

Black-bellied Plover ⁶
Pluvialis squatarola

Piping Plover ⁷
Charadrius melodus

Spotted Sandpiper ⁸
Actitis macularius

Ruddy Turnstone ⁹
Arenaria interpres

Sanderling ¹⁰
Calidris alba

Red Knot ⁶
Calidris canutus

Western Sandpiper ¹¹
Calidris mauri

Least Sandpiper ¹²
Calidris minutilla

Semipalmated Sandpiper ¹³
Calidris pusilla

Willet ¹⁴
Tringa semipalmata

Common Snipe ¹⁵
Gallinago gallinago

Short-billed Dowitcher ¹⁶
Limnodromus griseus

Long-billed Dowitcher ¹⁷
Limnodromus scolopaceus

Marbled Godwit ¹⁸
Limosa fedoa

Whimbrel ¹⁹
Numenius phaeopus

American Woodcock ¹⁴
Scolopax minor

Lesser Yellowlegs ²⁰
Tringa flavipes

Greater Yellowlegs ⁶
Tringa melanoleuca

Solitary Sandpiper ⁶
Tringa solitaria

Dunlin ²¹
Calidris alpina

Black Tern ²²
Chlidonias niger

Herring Gull ²³
Larus argentatus

Laughing Gull ¹⁴
Leucophaeus atricilla

Ring-billed Gull ²⁴
Larus delawarensis

Lesser Black-backed Gull ²⁵
Larus fuscus

Glaucous Gull ²⁶
Larus hyperboreus

Great Black-backed Gull ²⁷
Larus marinus

Bonaparte's Gull ⁶
Chroicocephalus philadelphia

Least Tern ²⁸
Sternula antillarum

Caspian Tern ⁶
Hydroprogne caspia

Roseate Tern ²⁹
Sterna dougallii

Forster's Tern ³⁰
Sterna forsteri

Common Tern ³¹
Sterna hirundo

Royal Tern ³²
Thalasseus maximus

Gull-billed Tern ³³
Gelochelidon nilotica

Sandwich Tern ⁹
Thalasseus sandvicensis

Black Skimmer ³⁴
Rynchops niger

Edited by matbio and Jose Nunez

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MatBio: BIRDS - Matanzas Biodiversity

American Oystercatcher 1 Haematopus palliatus

Black-necked Stilt 2 Himantopus mexicanus

American Avocet 3 Recurvirostra americana

Semipalmated Plover 4 Charadrius semipalmatus

Killdeer 5 Charadrius vociferus

Wilson's Plover 6 Charadrius wilsonia

Black-bellied Plover 6 Pluvialis squatarola

Piping Plover 7 Charadrius melodus

Spotted Sandpiper 8 Actitis macularius

Ruddy Turnstone 9 Arenaria interpres

Sanderling 10 Calidris alba

Red Knot 6 Calidris canutus

Western Sandpiper 11 Calidris mauri

Least Sandpiper 12 Calidris minutilla

Semipalmated Sandpiper 13 Calidris pusilla

Willet 14 Tringa semipalmata

Common Snipe 15 Gallinago gallinago

Short-billed Dowitcher 16 Limnodromus griseus

Long-billed Dowitcher 17 Limnodromus scolopaceus

Marbled Godwit 18 Limosa fedoa

Whimbrel 19 Numenius phaeopus

American Woodcock 14 Scolopax minor

Lesser Yellowlegs 20 Tringa flavipes

Greater Yellowlegs 6 Tringa melanoleuca

Solitary Sandpiper 6 Tringa solitaria

Dunlin 21 Calidris alpina

Black Tern 22 Chlidonias niger

Herring Gull 23 Larus argentatus

Laughing Gull 14 Leucophaeus atricilla

Ring-billed Gull 24 Larus delawarensis

Lesser Black-backed Gull 25 Larus fuscus

Glaucous Gull 26 Larus hyperboreus

Great Black-backed Gull 27 Larus marinus

Bonaparte's Gull 6 Chroicocephalus philadelphia

Least Tern 28 Sternula antillarum

Caspian Tern 6 Hydroprogne caspia

Roseate Tern 29 Sterna dougallii

Forster's Tern 30 Sterna forsteri

Common Tern 31 Sterna hirundo

Royal Tern 32 Thalasseus maximus

Gull-billed Tern 33 Gelochelidon nilotica

Sandwich Tern 9 Thalasseus sandvicensis

Black Skimmer 34 Rynchops niger