June is the absolute slowest time of the year for birding in South Florida. A couple of years ago The June Challenge was created to stimulate interest in getting out to bird during the doldrums, by for offering a friendly contest to see which county could amass the most sightings. I'm not officially participating, but I'm still trying to find at least a hundred species within Lee County.
1 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
2 Fulvous Whistling-Duck
3 Muscovy Duck
4 Wood Duck
5 Eurasian Wigeon
6 Mottled Duck
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| Mallard x Mottled Duck cross. |
7 Northern Bobwhite
8 Double-crested Cormorant
9 Anhinga
10 American White Pelican
11 Brown Pelican
12 Least Bittern
13 Great Blue Heron
14 Great Egret
15 Snowy Egret
16 Little Blue Heron
17 Tricolored Heron
18 Reddish Egret
19 Cattle Egret
20 Green Heron
21 Black-crowned Night-Heron
22 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
23 White Ibis
24 Glossy Ibis
25 Roseate Spoonbill
26 Black Vulture
27 Turkey Vulture
28 Osprey
29 Swallow-tailed Kite
30 Snail Kite
31 Bald Eagle
32 Red-shouldered Hawk
33 Red-tailed Hawk
34 Common Gallinule
35 American Coot
36 Limpkin
37 Sandhill Crane
38 Black-necked Stilt
39 American Oystercatcher
40 Black-bellied Plover
41 Wilson's Plover
42 Semipalmated Plover
43 Killdeer
44 Willet
45 Marbled Godwit
46 Ruddy Turnstone
47 Sanderling
48 Semipalmated Sandpiper
49 Short-billed Dowitcher
50 Laughing Gull
51 Ring-billed Gull
52 Least Tern
53 Royal Tern
54 Sandwich Tern
55 Black Skimmer
56 Rock Pigeon
57 Eurasian Collared-Dove
58 Common Ground-Dove
59 White-winged Dove
60 Mourning Dove
61 Burrowing Owl
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| A Juvenile Burrowing Owl |
62 Barred Owl
63 Common Nighthawk
64 Chimney Swift
65 Red-headed Woodpecker
66 Red-bellied Woodpecker
67 Downy Woodpecker
68 Northern Flicker
69 Pileated Woodpecker
70 Monk Parakeet
71 Nanday Parakeet
72 Great Crested Flycatcher
73 Gray Kingbird
74 Loggerhead Shrike
75 White-eyed Vireo
76 Blue Jay
77 Florida Scrub-Jay
78 Fish Crow
79 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
80 Tufted Titmouse
81 Carolina Wren
82 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
83 Eastern Bluebird
84 Brown Thrasher
85 Northern Mockingbird
86 European Starling
87 Northern Parula
88 Pine Warbler
89 Prairie Warbler
90 Northern Cardinal
91 Red-winged Blackbird
92 Eastern Meadowlark
93 Common Grackle
94 Boat-tailed Grackle
95 House Sparrow
96 Cooper's Hawk
97 Purple Gallinule
97 Purple Gallinule
Well I didn't find one hundred species. Came close though. Some species missed that I expected to find included Crested Caracara, Wild Turkey, Wood Stork and Eastern Towhee.