The Vermilion flycatcher (Pyrocephalus obscurus) is a small passerine bird found throughout South America and southern North America. The species was first described in the late 1830s as a result of the voyages of Charles Darwin. The common name of...
The dusky seaside sparrow (Ammospiza maritima nigrescens ) was a non-migratory subspecies of the seaside sparrow, found in Florida in the natural salt marshes of Merritt Island and along the St. Johns River. The last definite known individual died...
The black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus ) is a locally abundant shorebird of American wetlands and coastlines. It is found from the coastal areas of California through much of the interior western United States and along the Gulf of Mexico as...
The heath hen (Tympanuchus cupido cupido ) is an extinct subspecies of the greater prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido ), a large North American bird in the grouse family. It became extinct in 1932.Heath hens lived in the scrubby heathland barrens...
The Florida scrub jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens ) is one of the species of scrub jay native to North America. It is the only species of bird endemic to the U.S. state of Florida and one of only 15 species endemic to the continental United States....
Woodhouse's scrub jay (Aphelocoma woodhouseii ), is a species of scrub jay native to western North America, ranging from southeastern Oregon and southern Idaho to central Mexico. Woodhouse's scrub jay was until recently considered the same species...
The grey-headed swamphen (Porphyrio poliocephalus ) is a species of swamphen occurring from the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent to southern China and northern Thailand. It used to be considered a subspecies of the purple swamphen, but was...
The California least tern, Sternula antillarum browni, is a subspecies of least tern that breeds primarily in bays of the Pacific Ocean within a very limited range of Southern California, in San Francisco Bay and in northern regions of Mexico. This...
The eastern red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis borealis ) is a subspecies of the red-tailed hawk that breeds from southeast Canada and Maine south through Texas and east to northern Florida.
Ciconia maltha, also known as the asphalt stork or La Brea stork, is an extinct stork from the Late Pliocene – Late Pleistocene of United States (California, Oregon, Idaho and Florida), Cuba and Bolivia. It has been found in the La Brea Tar Pits.It...
The Florida grasshopper sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum floridanus ) is an endangered subspecies of grasshopper sparrow native to the dry prairies of south-central Florida.The Florida grasshopper sparrow is one of four subspecies of grasshopper...
Cabot's tern (Thalasseus acuflavidus ) is a tern in the family Laridae formerly considered as a subspecies of the Sandwich tern. It has since been shown to be more closely related to the elegant tern (Thalasseus elegans ). The genus name is from...
The Cape Sable seaside sparrow (Ammospiza maritima mirabilis ) is a subspecies of the seaside sparrow, a species of bird in the family Passerellidae native to the United States. This subspecies is endemic to southern Florida. It is designated...
The Florida red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis umbrinus ) is a subspecies of red-tailed hawk. It occurs year-round in peninsular Florida north as far as Tampa Bay and the Kissimmee Prairie and south down to the Florida Keys. This subspecies is very...
Pelecanus schreiberi is a fossil pelican described by Storrs Olson from Early Pliocene (5.3 to 3.6 million year old) deposits in the Yorktown Formation of North Carolina. It was a large species with distinctive features suggesting that it represents...
The Cuban red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis solitudinus ) is a subspecies of red-tailed hawk native to the Bahamas, Florida and Cuba.
Scott's seaside sparrow (Ammospiza maritima peninsulae ) is a subspecies of the seaside sparrow. It was originally thought to be a separate species but later reconsidered as a subspecies of the seaside sparrow.It can be found along the Gulf of...
