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Mangroves

33 Bird Species

Belted Kingfisher

The only kingfisher across most of North America, this species is often seen perched on power lines and other exposed perches over water. It is easily recognized by its large angular head, its shaggy crest and long bill. The upperparts are slaty blue-gray, with a white collar extending almost all the more...

Length: 28 cm Wingspan: 56 cm

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Adult: large head with black crown, red eye, pale forehead, dark lores and thick, pointy, dark bill. Several long, thin white plumes. Pale face and throat, short pale gray neck, pale gray underparts and wings. Black back and dark green. Short gray tail. Yellow legs. Breeding plumage: plumes longer, more...

Length: 64 cm Wingspan: 112 cm

Black-whiskered Vireo

This species gets its name from the black stripe on the edge of its throat. While this mark is distinctive, it is sometimes hard to see. The upperparts are plain olive-green. The head shows a gray crown, whitish supercilium with an indistinct dark border, and blackish eye line. The underparts are dul more...

Length: 15 cm Wingspan: 25 cm

Brown Pelican

Large, swan-sized mostly brown waterbird with a massive, long beak with extensible pouch. Atlantic populations have greenish to brown pouches and pale yellowish bills. Western birds have red pouch. Adults have grayish backs with darker brown underparts. Broad, crooked, long wings. Black legs and shor more...

Length: 130 cm Wingspan: 200 cm

Cuban Pewee

This small, olive-gray Caribbean flycatcher is large-headed, long-tailed, comparatively short-winged, and has a longer, proportionally thinner bill than other similar flycatchers. It is dark dusky olive-green above. Head is uniformly dark with an incomplete white eye ring that flares behind the eye. more...

Length: 15 cm Wingspan: cm

Glossy Ibis

Resembles an all-dark curlew, with a long, down-curved bill (noticeably thicker than a shorebird bill), small head, long thin neck, slender body, long legs. Adult breeding (alternate plumage): looks black from a distance, but in good light is mostly dark chestnut. Back and wings are dark green with g more...

Length: 58 cm Wingspan: 91 cm

Gray Kingbird

This large kingbird is recognized by its uniformly gray upperparts, long heavy bill, and contrasting dark mask that runs from the base of the bill through the auriculars. The wings are slightly darker with thin pale feather edges. The tail is long and notched. Underparts, including the underside of t more...

Length: 23 cm Wingspan: 37 cm

Great Frigatebird

Large and dark with long crooked and pointed wings, long deeply-forked tail, and long, gray hooked bill. Adult males have red throat pouch that they inflate into large balloon. Iridescent green back. Upperwing coverts have brown bars. Pinkish feet. Females also mostly dark, with a white chest. Juveni more...

Length: 95 cm Wingspan: 216 cm

Great-tailed Grackle

Crow-sized in total length with a much thinner body and narrower wings; tail accounts for about half of the length. Bill is fairly heavy and long. Adult male is entirely glossy black, with dark blue sheen on head and body, a pale eye, and very long, obviously graduated tail. Females are grayish brown more...

Length: 46 cm Wingspan: 58 cm

Green Heron

Small, stocky heron with long bill. Alternate adult: dark dusky green crown and back that are glossy. Face, neck, and sides of upper breast dark chestnut. Two-toned bill with dark upper mandible and straw yellow lower mandible. White chin and throat and short white malar stripe. White on center of ne more...

Length: 64 cm Wingspan: 112 cm

Green-breasted Mango

This rare visitor from Mexico is recognized by its thick decurved bill and purple tail. Male: Dark green overall, with a black throat blending into the blue-green breast. All but the central tail feathers are purple with black edging. Female: Green on upperparts and sides. White underparts are bisect more...

Length: 11 cm Wingspan: 13 cm

La Sagra's Flycatcher

Medium-sized Myiarchus flycatcher that is proportionally large-headed and short-tailed. Dark earth-brown and reddish-brown above and pale below; usually shows a conspicuous bushy crest. Adult: Dark dusky face and crest. Long dark bill. Shows much less yellow (almost none) below than other Myiarchus, more...

Length: 19 cm Wingspan: 27 cm

Least Bittern

The smallest and most secretive North American heron. Mostly dark above and orangish buff to cream below. Yellow eyes, lores and bill. Distinct whitish stripes on dark shoulders. Yellow legs with long toes. Adult male: glossy, black crown, back, rump, and tail. Face, sides of neck, and upper flanks o more...

Length: 33 cm Wingspan: 43 cm

Least Grebe

A very small, compact, dark grebe, restricted to South Texas. Body is all brownish gray, with lighter gray tuft on the sides, especially apparent when fluffed and relaxed; bill is short and slender with a pale whitish tip. Its rather piercing eye is bright yellow. In alternate plumage, adult has blac more...

Length: 24 cm Wingspan: 28 cm

Little Blue Heron

Slender mid-sized heron that is nearly all-white as an immature and all-dark as an adult. Bill is thicker at base than other similar-sized herons and egrets, but tapers to pointed tip. Alternate Adult: gray-blue plumage overall with purple neck and head. Long lanceolate plumes on head and neck; gray more...

Length: 61 cm Wingspan: 102 cm

Magnificent Frigatebird

Large and black with extremely long, angular, pointed wings and forked tail. Hooked bill long and gray. Male entirely black, glossy above, with red throat pouch. Displaying male inflates balloon-like red throat-pouch. Feet and legs tiny and dark. Female has white patch on chest and pale patches on to more...

Length: 102 cm Wingspan: 229 cm

Belted Kingfisher
15 Photographs
Black-crowned Night-Heron
12 Photographs
Black-whiskered Vireo
1 Photograph
Brown Pelican
22 Photographs
Cuban Pewee
2 Photographs
Glossy Ibis
6 Photographs
Gray Kingbird
1 Photograph
Great Frigatebird
3 Photographs
Great-tailed Grackle
3 Photographs
Green Heron
13 Photographs
Green-breasted Mango
0 Photographs
La Sagra's Flycatcher
2 Photographs
Least Bittern
9 Photographs
Least Grebe
3 Photographs
Little Blue Heron
14 Photographs
Magnificent Frigatebird
22 Photographs

Non-vegetated Areas

0 species

Salt Water

17 species

Belted Kingfisher

Megaceryle alcyon

Estuaries and Bays, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Mangroves

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Nycticorax nycticorax

Estuaries and Bays, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Brown Pelican

Pelecanus occidentalis

Estuaries and Bays, Inshore Waters, Rocky Shores, Beaches, Mangroves

Glossy Ibis

Plegadis falcinellus

Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands

Great Frigatebird

Fregata minor

Open Ocean, Mangroves

Great-tailed Grackle

Quiscalus mexicanus

Saltmarshes, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Chapparal, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest

Green Heron

Butorides virescens

Saltmarshes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Ponds and Rivers, Southern Wooded Swamps, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Least Bittern

Ixobrychus exilis

Saltmarshes, Fresh Water Marshes, Mangroves

Little Blue Heron

Egretta caerulea

Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Fresh Water Marshes, Southern Wooded Swamps, Mangroves

Magnificent Frigatebird

Fregata magnificens

Open Ocean, Inshore Waters, Beaches, Mangroves

Reddish Egret

Egretta rufescens

Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Mangroves

Roseate Spoonbill

Platalea ajaja

Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Fresh Water Marshes, Ponds and Rivers, Mangroves

Scarlet Ibis

Eudocimus ruber

Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Mangroves

Snowy Egret

Egretta thula

Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Mangroves, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

White Ibis

Eudocimus albus

Saltmarshes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Fresh Water Marshes, Ponds and Rivers, Mangroves, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

White-cheeked Pintail

Anas bahamensis

Estuaries and Bays, Mangroves

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Nyctanassa violacea

Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Southern Wooded Swamps, Mangroves, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Human-altered Areas

11 species

Belted Kingfisher

Megaceryle alcyon

Estuaries and Bays, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Mangroves

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Nycticorax nycticorax

Estuaries and Bays, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Glossy Ibis

Plegadis falcinellus

Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands

Gray Kingbird

Tyrannus dominicensis

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest

Great-tailed Grackle

Quiscalus mexicanus

Saltmarshes, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Chapparal, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest

Green Heron

Butorides virescens

Shiny Cowbird

Molothrus bonariensis

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Clearcuts, Thickets

Tropical Kingbird

Tyrannus melancholicus

Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Fresh Water Marshes, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Shrubby Slopes, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

White Ibis

Eudocimus albus

Saltmarshes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Fresh Water Marshes, Ponds and Rivers, Mangroves, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Yellow Warbler

Setophaga petechia

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Southern Wooded Swamps, Mangroves, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia, Thickets

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Nyctanassa violacea

Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Southern Wooded Swamps, Mangroves, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Fresh Water

33 species

Belted Kingfisher

Megaceryle alcyon

Estuaries and Bays, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Mangroves

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Nycticorax nycticorax

Estuaries and Bays, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Black-whiskered Vireo

Vireo altiloquus

Mangroves

Brown Pelican

Pelecanus occidentalis

Estuaries and Bays, Inshore Waters, Rocky Shores, Beaches, Mangroves

Cuban Pewee

Contopus caribaeus

Fresh Water Marshes, Mangroves, Shrubby Slopes, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest

Glossy Ibis

Plegadis falcinellus

Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands

Gray Kingbird

Tyrannus dominicensis

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest

Great Frigatebird

Fregata minor

Open Ocean, Mangroves

Great-tailed Grackle

Quiscalus mexicanus

Saltmarshes, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Chapparal, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest

Green Heron

Butorides virescens

Green-breasted Mango

Anthracothorax prevostii

Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Oak Savannah and Woodlands

La Sagra's Flycatcher

Myiarchus sagrae

Mangroves, Clearcuts

Least Bittern

Ixobrychus exilis

Saltmarshes, Fresh Water Marshes, Mangroves

Least Grebe

Tachybaptus dominicus

Fresh Water Marshes, Ponds and Rivers, Mangroves

Little Blue Heron

Egretta caerulea

Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Fresh Water Marshes, Southern Wooded Swamps, Mangroves

Magnificent Frigatebird

Fregata magnificens

Open Ocean, Inshore Waters, Beaches, Mangroves

Mangrove Cuckoo

Coccyzus minor

Mangroves

Reddish Egret

Egretta rufescens

Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Mangroves

Ringed Kingfisher

Megaceryle torquata

Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Mangroves

Roseate Spoonbill

Platalea ajaja

Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Fresh Water Marshes, Ponds and Rivers, Mangroves

Scarlet Ibis

Eudocimus ruber

Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Mangroves

Shiny Cowbird

Molothrus bonariensis

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Clearcuts, Thickets

Short-tailed Hawk

Buteo brachyurus

Southern Wooded Swamps, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest

Snowy Egret

Egretta thula

Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Mangroves, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Tropical Kingbird

Tyrannus melancholicus

Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Fresh Water Marshes, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Shrubby Slopes, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

White Ibis

Eudocimus albus

Saltmarshes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Fresh Water Marshes, Ponds and Rivers, Mangroves, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

White-cheeked Pintail

Anas bahamensis

Estuaries and Bays, Mangroves

White-crowned Pigeon

Patagioenas leucocephala

Southern Wooded Swamps, Mangroves

White-eyed Vireo

Vireo griseus

Mangroves, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia, Thickets

Yellow Warbler

Setophaga petechia

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Southern Wooded Swamps, Mangroves, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia, Thickets

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Nyctanassa violacea

Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Southern Wooded Swamps, Mangroves, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Yellow-green Vireo

Vireo flavoviridis

Mangroves, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Yucatan Vireo

Vireo magister

Mangroves, Clearcuts, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Grassland and Scrubland

12 species

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Nycticorax nycticorax

Estuaries and Bays, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Cuban Pewee

Contopus caribaeus

Fresh Water Marshes, Mangroves, Shrubby Slopes, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest

Glossy Ibis

Plegadis falcinellus

Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Saltmarshes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands

Gray Kingbird

Tyrannus dominicensis

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest

Great-tailed Grackle

Quiscalus mexicanus

Saltmarshes, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Chapparal, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest

Green Heron

Butorides virescens

Green-breasted Mango

Anthracothorax prevostii

Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Oak Savannah and Woodlands

La Sagra's Flycatcher

Myiarchus sagrae

Mangroves, Clearcuts

Shiny Cowbird

Molothrus bonariensis

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Clearcuts, Thickets

Short-tailed Hawk

Buteo brachyurus

Southern Wooded Swamps, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest

Tropical Kingbird

Tyrannus melancholicus

Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Fresh Water Marshes, Mangroves, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Shrubby Slopes, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Yucatan Vireo

Vireo magister

Mangroves, Clearcuts, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Forest and Woodlands

16 species