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 White Pelican ¹
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos

Brown Pelican ²
Pelecanus occidentalis

Great Blue Heron ³
Ardea herodias

American Bittern ⁴
Botaurus lentiginosus

Cattle Egret ⁵
Bubulcus ibis

Green Heron ⁶
Butorides virescens

Little Blue Heron ⁷
Egretta caerulea

Reddish Egret ⁸
Egretta rufescens

Snowy Egret ²
Egretta thula

Tricolored Heron ⁹
Egretta tricolor

Least Bittern ¹⁰
Ixobrychus exilis

Black-crowned Night-Heron ¹¹
Nycticorax nycticorax

Great Egret ³
Ardea alba

White Ibis ¹²
Eudocimus albus

Roseate Spoonbill ¹³
Platalea ajaja

Glossy Ibis ¹⁴
Plegadis falcinellus

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron ¹⁵
Nyctanassa violacea

Edited by matbio and Jose Nunez

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