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Clearcuts

55 Bird Species

Bahama Mockingbird

A thrasher-like Caribbean mockingbird, rare to Southern Florida. Adult is similar to Sage Thrasher and Northern Mockingbird, but note clean gray underparts without buffy tones and limited dark streaking on flanks. Upperparts are sandy-brown with two narrow white wing bars, tail is relatively long and more...

Length: 28 cm Wingspan: 37 cm

Black Vulture

Black overall. The skin on the bare head is gray and wrinkled, darker and smoother on young birds. The bill is dark with a pale tip. The legs and feet are pale gray. In flight, the white undersides of the primaries form pale wingtips that contrast with the rest of the bird’s plumage. Wings are hel more...

Length: 60 cm Wingspan: 137 cm

Blue Grosbeak

Smaller than other grosbeaks, and similar to Indigo Bunting, Blue Grosbeaks are recognized by their heavy bills and prominent wing bars. Adult Male: Dark metallic blue overall, with blackish tail and wings, and two chestnut wing bars. At close range, the back shows indistinct darker streaks. The lore more...

Length: 16 cm Wingspan: 27 cm

Blue-winged Warbler

This species has greatly expanded its range in the past century. It frequently hybridizes with Golden-winged Warbler, often replacing Golden-wings where their ranges come into contact. Male: The back and nape are a dingy olive-yellow. The crown, face, and underparts are bright yellow, except for the more...

Length: 11 cm Wingspan: 17 cm

Brewer's Blackbird

Males in alternate plumage are iridescent black, with a purplish sheen on the head and breast, greenish gloss on back, wings, and tail, pale whitish eye, medium-length tail, and thin, pointy bill. Basic plumaged males generally lack glossiness and have pale brown in the throat and supercilium. Irides more...

Length: 22 cm Wingspan: 39 cm

Brown-chested Martin

This small brown and white martin is an extremely rare stray from South America. Overall appearance suggests an over-sized Bank Swallow; upperparts are uniform earthy-brown (about the color of dried soil) with pale edgings on the wing coverts and tertials. Head is slightly paler gray-brown, darkest o more...

Length: 16 cm Wingspan: 38 cm

Bushtit

Very small songbird, with a round body, a long, narrow tail, and a small, short bill. Medium to pale gray overall with upperparts slightly darker than underparts. Females have pale yellow irises, while males are dark-eyed. Interior Great Basin subspecies "plumbeus" has brownish auriculars with a pale more...

Length: 11 cm Wingspan: 15 cm

California Quail

Plump adult stands upright and has stubby wings, relatively short legs and tail, and forward-curling plume on head. Male has blue-gray upperparts and breast, scaly belly, reddish sides streaked with white, scaly nape, black face with white borders, and dark reddish cap. Female lacks black on face and more...

Length: 25 cm Wingspan: 36 cm

Caribbean Elaenia

Medium-small Central and South American flycatcher that is superficially similar to North American Empidonax genus. Adult: Olive-greenish above, including head, back, wings and tail. When crest is raised, it exposes this species' white crown patch. Unlike any Empidonax, this species shows an indistin more...

Length: 14 cm Wingspan: 20 cm

Carolina Wren

A large, noisy, and familiar wren across Eastern and Southeastern North America. Adult is warm brown overall, with clean buffy underparts, white undertail coverts with black barring, rich reddish upperparts, fine black barring on wings and tail, white throat, clean white supercilium, and relatively l more...

Length: 14 cm Wingspan: 19 cm

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Alternate adult male is vibrant, with rich chestnut sides, bright yellow crown, black face, white cheeks, white underparts, black-streaked back, and dark wings with two pale wing bars. Alternate adult female is like male but with less chestnut on flanks and limited black on the face. Basic adult male more...

Length: 13 cm Wingspan: 20 cm

Common Grackle

Larger than blackbirds, with a noticeably graduated tail, heavy bill, and pale eye. Male is entirely glossy black; at close range, iridescence is bluish on head and neck, with bronze or multicolored sheen on rest of body. Female is similar but has reduced iridescence on body and slightly smaller tail more...

Length: 32 cm Wingspan: 43 cm

Common Nighthawk

A slender, long-winged, partly nocturnal bird, widespread across North America. Adult is cryptically plumaged when perched, with long black primaries extending past tail, white wing spot underneath shoulder, softly-patterned upperparts marbled and spotted with brown and black tones, buffy or whitish more...

Length: 24 cm Wingspan: 61 cm

Dark-eyed Junco

Often called "snowbird," this species shows a tremendous amount of variation across the continent. The 12 subspecies fall into six identifiable groups, described below. In all plumages, white outer tail feathers are obvious in flight. All but one subspecies show a pale pinkish bill. In most populatio more...

Length: 15 cm Wingspan: 23 cm

Dusky Flycatcher

This species appears rather drab compared to other Empidonax flycatchers. Upperparts are olive-gray, grayer on the head. The dusky wings show two dull whitish wing bars and short primary projection. The tail appears fairly long and squared or slightly notched at the end. The whitish eye ring is consp more...

Length: 13 cm Wingspan: 20 cm

Eastern Kingbird

This species is easily recognized by its black and white pattern and sputtering call. The upperparts are black, fading to dark gray on the back. Tertials and wing coverts have very narrow pale edges. The tail has an obvious white band at the tip. Underparts are white, with a pale gray band across the more...

Length: 19 cm Wingspan: 36 cm

Non-vegetated Areas

2 species

Great Horned Owl

Bubo virginianus

Rimrocks and Mesas, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Clearcuts, Boreal Forest, Oak Savannah and Woodlands, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest, Western Confierous Forest, Dry Western Woodlands, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Turkey Vulture

Cathartes aura

Rocky Cliffs and Gorges, Rimrocks and Mesas, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Chapparal, Clearcuts, Oak Savannah and Woodlands, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest, Western Confierous Forest, Dry Western Woodlands, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Salt Water

5 species

Brewer's Blackbird

Euphagus cyanocephalus

Beaches, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands, Chapparal, Clearcuts, Northern Wooded Swamps

Common Nighthawk

Chordeiles minor

Coastal Dunes, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Clearcuts

Northern Shrike

Lanius excubitor

Estuaries and Bays, Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Chapparal, Clearcuts, Oak Savannah and Woodlands

Rufous Hummingbird

Selasphorus rufus

Coastal Dunes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Alpine Tundra and Meadows, Clearcuts, Western Confierous Forest, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Song Sparrow

Melospiza melodia

Coastal Dunes, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Chapparal, Clearcuts, Oak Savannah and Woodlands, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest, Western Confierous Forest, Dry Western Woodlands, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia, Thickets