THE BIRDS OF THE DRY TORTUGAS

April 2010

Key:

DT = Dry Tortugas
KW = Key West
BT = Boat to and from Key West
L = Leader only
*Review Species
1 First tour
2 Second tour

BIRD SPECIES
Blue-winged Teal DT 1 Audubon’s Shearwater BT1,2
Masked Booby DT 1,2 Brown Booby DT 1,2
Northern Gannet BT DT 1,2 Brown Pelican DT 1,2
Double-crested Cormorant DT 1,2 Magnificent Frigatebird DT 1,2
Great Blue Heron DT 1,2 Great White Heron (subspecies) KW1
Great Egret DT 1,2 Snowy Egret DT 1,2
Little Blue Heron DT2 Tricolored Heron DT2
Reddish Egret KW2 Cattle Egret DT 1
Green Heron DT KW 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron DT 1,2
White Ibis KW 2 Turkey Vulture KW 1,2
Osprey DT 1,2 Northern Harrier KW 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk DT 1,2 American Kestrel DT 1,2
Merlin DT 1,2 Peregrine Falcon DT 1,2
Black-bellied Plover DT 1,2 American Golden-Plover 1
Semipalmated Plover DT 1,2 Black-necked Stilt KW 2
Greater Yellowlegs DT2 Lesser Yellowlegs DT 1,2
Willet DT 1,2 Spotted Sandpiper DT 1,2 1 ,2
Whimbrel DT 1,2 Black-tailed Godwit * 1
Ruddy Turnstone DT 1,2 Sanderling DT 1,2
Semipalmated Sandpiper DT 1,2 White-rumped Sandpiper DT2
Pomarine Jaeger DT1 Laughing Gull WS 1,2
Ring-billed Gull DT 1,2 Herring Gull DT 1,2
Royal Tern DT 1,2 Sandwich Tern DT 1,2
Roseate Tern DT 1,2 Least Tern DT 1,2
Bridled Tern DT1 Sooty Tern DT 1,2
Brown Noddy DT 1,2 Black Skimmer KW2
Rock Pigeon (e) KW 1,2 Eurasian Collared-Dove (e) WS 1,2
White-winged Dove DT 1,2 Mourning Dove WS 1,2
Common Ground-dove KW2 Black-billed Cuckoo DT 1,2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo DT 1,2 Lesser Nighthawk 2
Common Nighthawk DT 1,2 Antillean Nighthawk KW2
Chuck-will’s-widow 2 Whip-poor-will 2
Chimney Swift DT 1,2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird DT 1,2
Belted Kingfisher DT1 Red-bellied Woodpecker KW2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker DT1 Eastern Wood-pewee DT2
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher DT2 Acadian Flycatcher DT2
Trpoical Kingbird * DT2 Cassin’s Kingbird * 2
Western Kingbird DT2 Eastern Kingbird DT 1,2
Gray Kingbird DT 1,2 White-eyed Vireo DT2
Yellow-throated Vireo DT2 Blue-headed Vireo DT 1,2
Warbling Vireo DT 1,2 Red-eyed Vireo DT 1,2
Black-whiskered Vireo DTKW 1,2 Purple Martin DT 1,2
Cuban Martin * DT1 Tree Swallow DT 1,2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow DT 1,2 Bank Swallow DT 1,2
Cliff Swallow DT 1,2 Barn Swallow DT 1,2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher DT1 Veery DT 1,2
Wood Thrush DT 1,2 Gray Catbird DT 1,2
Northern Mockingbird KW 1,2 European Starling (e) KW 1,2
Common Myna KW 1,2 Tennessee Warbler DT 1,2
Orange-crowned Warbler DT1 Northern Parula DT 1,2
Yellow Warbler DT 1,2 Chestnut-sided Warbler DT 1,2
Magnolia Warbler KW 1,2 Cape May Warbler DT 1,2
Black-throated Blue Warbler DT 1,2 Blackburnian Warbler DT 1,2
Palm Warbler DT 1,2 Bay-breasted Warbler DT 1,2
Blackpoll Warbler DT 1,2 Cerulean Warbler DT2
Black-and-white Warbler DT 1,2 American Redstart DT 1,2
Prothonotary Warbler KW1 Worm-eating Warbler DT 1,2
Swainson’s Warbler DT1 Ovenbird DT 1,2
Northern Waterthrush KW 1,2 Louisiana Waterthrush DT 1,2
Kentucky Warbler DT2 Common Yellowthroat DT 1,2
Hooded Warbler DT 1,2 Summer Tanager DT 1,2
Scarlet Tanager DT 1,2 Grasshopper Sparrow DTL 2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak DT 1,2 Blue Grosbeak DT 1,2
Common Grackle DT 1,2 Shiny Cowbird DT2
Boat-tailed Grackle DT1 Orchard Oriole DT2
Baltimore Oriole DT 1,2 Indigo Bunting DT 1,2
Painted Bunting DT1 Dickcissel DT 1,2
Bobolink KW 1,2 Red-winged Blackbird DT 1,2
Eastern Meadowlark 1 Western Meadowlark * 1

MAMMALS
Bottle-nosed Dolphin
REPTILES/FISH
Goliath Grouper Saltwater Crocodile
Green Sea Turtle