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Wood Duck
Anseriformes - Anatidae
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American Wigeon
Anseriformes - Anatidae
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Green-winged Teal
Anseriformes - Anatidae
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Mallard
Anseriformes - Anatidae
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Northern Pintail
Anseriformes - Anatidae
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Blue-winged Teal
Anseriformes - Anatidae
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American Black Duck
Anseriformes - Anatidae
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Gadwall
Anseriformes - Anatidae
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Bufflehead
Anseriformes - Anatidae
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Hooded Merganser
Anseriformest - Anatidae
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Red Breasted Merganser
Anseriformes - Anatidae
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Common Merganser
Anseriformes - Anatidae
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Canada goose
Ansiformes - Anatidae
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Snow Goose
Anseriformes - Anatidae
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Turkey Vulture
- Falconiformes - Cathartidae
- Long thin tail and red head
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Black Vulture
- Falconiformes - Cathartidae
- Stumpy tail and black head
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Osprey
Falconiformes - Pandionidae
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Red-tailed Hawk
Falconiformes - Accipitridae
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Red-shouldered Hawk
Falconiformes - Accipitridae
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Swallow-tailed Kites
Falconiformes - Falconidae
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Peregrine Falcon
Falconiformes - Falconidae
- - Pointed wings
- - "mask/sideburns"
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American Kestrel (male)
Falconiformes - Falconidae
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Megapodes
Galliformes - Megapodiidae
- Mound-builders (for incubating eggs)
- Oriental and Australian regions
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Curassows, Guans, and Chachalacs
Galliformes - Cracidae
- Large, blunt-winged birds with long broad tails
- Have ornaments (crest or casques)
- Neotropics (NA to SA)
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Ring-necked pheasants
Galliformes - Phasianidae
- Old world family
- Introduced for hunting in NA
- Medium bodies
- Long, pointed tails
- Males brightly colored
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Wild Turkey
Galliformes - Meleagrididae
- - New World only
- - Bare head
- - Distinctive fleshy wattle that hangs from the beak called a snood
- - non-migratory, socially complex (array of vocal signals)
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Rock Ptarmigan
Galliformes - Tetranoidae
- - Medium sized birds
- - Compact body
- - Generally mottled/barred plumage
- - Feathered legs
- - Several species with colored air sacs and pinnae used in lek displays
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Northern Bobwhite
Galliformes - Odontophoridae
- - Small, chuncky birds
- - Pairs in breeding season
- - Several with head plumes
- - Throat and supercilium buffy in female, white in male
- - SE US
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Guineafowl
Galliformes - Numididae
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Hoatzin
Opisthocomiformes - Opisthocomidae
- - ood, monotypic species
- - backwater swamps of Amazon (SA)
- - use bacterial fermentation in the front part of the gut to break down vegetable material like cattle and other ruminants
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King Rail
Gruiformes - Rallidae
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Clapper Rail
Gruiformes - Rallidae
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Virginia Rail
Gruiformes - Rallidae
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Sora
Gruiformes - Rallidae
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Black Rail
Gruiformes - Rallidae
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Common Moorhen
Gruiformes - Rallidae
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American Coot
Guiformes - Rallidae
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Whooping crane
Gruiformes - Gruidae
- - Stand erect with long neck straight
- - Short, broad wings
- - Short tail with dropping feathers
- - Loud trumpeting calls (Lengthened Trachaea - heard 5 miles away)
- - Leaping courtship displays
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Limpkins
Guiformes - Aramidae
- - Forages for snails
- - One Species in Florida
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