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Other Birds

To make it easier to picture various types of birds in the wild, browse the images below.

 

The northern cardinal (cardinalis cardinalis) is a medium sized perching bird whose range extends from southern Canada through the eastern and central United States, across to Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, and down into Mexico, northern Guatemala and Belize. They can be found in gardens, open woods, swamps and fields with small shrubs.

The tufted titmouse (baeolophus bicolor) is a common bird found in the forests of the eastern United States usually below 2,000 feet in elevation. Look for them in the tree canopies of forests, woods, backyards and parks. They are frequent visitor to bird feeders and often look for the largest seeds. They hoard food in the fall and winter.

The eastern meadowlark (sturnella magna) prefers the grasslands, prairies, pastures and fields of eastern North America and northern South America. It is differentiated from the western meadowlark of the western prairies of the North American continent mainly by its song and some minor coloration differences

Gallinule Family

A gallinule in a pond in Riverview, Florida makes sure that her charges are aware of their surroundings on a hot August 2016 day in Hillsborough County.

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Muddy Marsh

This common gallinule was feeding in a marshy area of Manatee County off Bishops Harbor Road in Rubonia, Florida on a warm July summers day in 2016.

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Watery Bigfoot

A juvenile common gallinule tries to get used to its outsized feet in a marsh off Rhodine Road in Riverview, Florida on a hot summers day in 2016 in Hillsborough County.

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Common Gallinule

This common gallinule was feeding in a marshy area of Riverview, Florida off Rhodine Road in Hillsborough County on a warm July summer's day in 2016.

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Female Red-Winged Blackbird

This adult female red-winged blackbird was in a Manatee County, Florida marsh beside Bishops Harbor Road in Rubonia on a warm summer July day in 2016.

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Cuckoo for Caterpillar

Yellow billed cuckoo eating caterpillar at Lettuce Lake Park in Tampa, Florida.

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Monk Parakeet Nest

These monk parakeets, or quaker parrots, have built a large commeunal nest in one of the field lights of a baseball diamond in Cape Coral, Florida.

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Tell Tale Fluff

A fish crow fluffs its throat feathers as it calls on the shore of Lakeland, Florida's lake Morton on a late April morning in 2016.

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Spectacled Visitor

A blue-grey gnatcatcher with a white eye ring flits through the trees in Hillsborough County, Florida near the oxbow in Tampa's Lettuce Lake Park hunting for insects.

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Resting Goose

A goose rests in the grass around Lakeland, Florida's Lake Morton on an early December Morning.

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Warning Honk

A goose honks a warning on the shores of Lakeland, Florida's Lake Morton on an early December morning.

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Rhea Trio

Rheas searching in a Corrientes Province pasture in Argentina for their next meal.

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