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BREC's Fauna Conservation Park Guide

This guide provides a resource for a majority of the animals that you may come across within a BREC Conservation Area. Make sure you use it as a checklist to document what you see at our parks! From turtles and snakes, to beavers and dragonflies use this to learn more about your local ...more ↓

Tufted Titmouse 1
Baeolophus bicolor
Northern Mockingbird 2
Mimus polyglottos
Brown Thrasher 3
Toxostoma rufum
Eastern Phoebe 4
Sayornis phoebe
Downy Woodpecker 5
Picoides pubescens
Red-bellied Woodpecker 6
Melanerpes carolinus
Great Egret 7
Ardea alba
Carolina Chickadee 8
Poecile carolinensis
Sandhill Crane
Grus canadensis
Sora 7
Porzana carolina
King Rail 3
Rallus elegans
Clapper Rail 9
Rallus longirostris
Virginia Rail 10
Rallus limicola
Black Rail
Laterallus jamaicensis
Common Gallinule 11
Gallinula chloropus
American Coot
Fulica americana
Yellow Rail
Coturnicops noveboracensis
Red Junglefowl 12
Gallus gallus
Wild Turkey 13
Meleagris gallopavo
Greater Prairie-Chicken 14
Tympanuchus cupido
Northern Bobwhite 15
Colinus virginianus
Black-billed Cuckoo 3
Coccyzus erythropthalmus
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 16
Coccyzus americanus
Groove-billed Ani 17
Crotophaga sulcirostris
Greater Roadrunner 18
Geococcyx californianus
Belted Kingfisher 19
Megaceryle alcyon
African Collared-Dove 20
Streptopelia roseogrisea
Eurasian Collared Dove 21
Streptopelia decaocto
Rock Dove 22
Columba livia
Mourning Dove 23
Zenaida macroura
White-winged Dove 24
Zenaida asiatica
Inca Dove 3
Columbina inca
Common Ground-Dove 3
Columbina passerina
Passenger Pigeon 25
Ectopistes migratorius
White Ibis 26
Eudocimus albus
Glossy Ibis 12
Plegadis falcinellus
White-faced Ibis 27
Plegadis chihi
Red Knot 28
Calidris canutus
Sanderling 29
Calidris alba
Stilt Sandpiper 8
Calidris himantopus
Baird's Sandpiper 30
Calidris bairdii
Western Sandpiper 31
Calidris mauri
Dunlin 32
Calidris alpina
Semipalmated Sandpiper 33
Calidris pusilla
Curlew Sandpiper 12
Calidris ferruginea
Least Sandpiper 34
Calidris minutilla
Pectoral Sandpiper 35
Calidris melanotos
White-rumped Sandpiper 3
Calidris fuscicollis
Short-billed Dowitcher 36
Limnodromus griseus
Long-billed Dowitcher 7
Limnodromus scolopaceus
Solitary Sandpiper 28
Tringa solitaria
Greater Yellowlegs 28
Tringa melanoleuca
Lesser Yellowlegs 37
Tringa flavipes
Whimbrel 38
Numenius phaeopus
Long-billed Curlew 7
Numenius americanus
Common Snipe 39
Gallinago gallinago
American Woodcock 3
Scolopax minor
Ruddy Turnstone 40
Arenaria interpres
Hudsonian Godwit 24
Limosa haemastica
Marbled Godwit 2
Limosa fedoa
Upland Sandpiper 3
Bartramia longicauda
Leach's Storm-Petrel 41
Oceanodroma leucorhoa
Wilson's Storm-Petrel 25
Oceanites oceanicus
Cory's Shearwater 42
Calonectris diomedea
Eared Grebe 43
Podiceps nigricollis
Horned Grebe 28
Podiceps auritus
Pied-billed Grebe 9
Podilymbus podiceps
Double-crested Cormorant 10
Phalacrocorax auritus
Brown Pelican 34
Pelecanus occidentalis
American White Pelican 44
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
Ring-billed Gull 45
Larus delawarensis
Herring Gull 46
Larus argentatus
Lesser Black-backed Gull 47
Larus fuscus
Kelp Gull
Larus dominicanus
Common Tern 48
Sterna hirundo
Forster's Tern 7
Sterna forsteri
Black Skimmer 18
Rynchops niger
Black Tern 4
Chlidonias niger
Common Loon 3
Gavia immer
Magnificent Frigatebird 36
Fregata magnificens
Peregrine Falcon 49
Falco peregrinus
American Kestrel 10
Falco sparverius
Merlin 50
Falco columbarius
Wood Stork
Mycteria americana
Turkey Vulture 51
Cathartes aura
Black Vulture 52
Coragyps atratus
Snowy Plover 53
Charadrius alexandrinus
Killdeer 54
Charadrius vociferus
Wilson's Plover 28
Charadrius wilsonia
Piping Plover 55
Charadrius melodus
Semipalmated Plover 56
Charadrius semipalmatus
Black-necked Stilt 57
Himantopus mexicanus
American Oystercatcher 58
Haematopus palliatus
American Avocet 59
Recurvirostra americana
Black-bellied Plover 28
Pluvialis squatarola
American Golden-Plover 3
Pluvialis dominica
Little Blue Heron 60
Egretta caerulea
Tricolored Heron 3
Egretta tricolor
Snowy Egret 34
Egretta thula
Reddish Egret
Egretta rufescens

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