Guide to selected species of: Garland Ranch Regional Park  BirdsButterfliesFishesMammalsReptiles/AmphibiansTreesWildflowers     show all familiesAmerican VulturesAuks, Murres, PuffinsBarn OwlsBlackbirds and OriolesBushtitsCardinalsChickadees and TitmiceCormorantsCreepersCrows, Magpies, JaysCuckoos, Roadrunners, AnisDippersDucks and GeeseFalconsFinchesGrebesGulls and TernsHawks and EaglesHerons, Egrets, BitternsHummingbirdsKingfishersKingletsLarksLoonsMockingbirds and ThrashersNew World QuailNew World SparrowsNightjarsNuthatchesOld World SparrowsOld World Warblers and GnatcatchersOwlsPheasants and GrousePigeons and DovesPloversRails, Gallinules, CootsSandpipersShrikesSilky FlycatchersStarlings and MynasStilts and AvocetsSwallowsSwiftsTanagersThrushesTyrant FlycatchersVireosWagtails and PipitsWaxwingsWood WarblersWoodpeckersWrensWrentits    135 Birds field check-list  |  1 2 3 4 5 >>   © Arthur Morris Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps 12-15" (30-38 cm). Pigeon-sized. A stocky, uniformly brownish water bird, with stout whitish bill that has black ring around it during breeding season. © John Gerlach Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus 30-35 (76-89 cm). Orange throat pouch and long neck. Long hooked bill tilted upward when swimming. Adults have short tuft of feathers over each eye during breeding season. In flight, the neck shows a slight crook. © Tom Vezo Great Egret Ardea alba 35-41" (89-104 cm). W. 4'7" (1.4 m). All-white heron with yellow bill, black legs. Breeding plumage, has long lacy plumes on back. Smaller Snowy Egret has black bill, legs, yellow feet. © Brian E. Small Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias 39-52" (99-132 cm). W. 5'10" (1.8 m). Large, mainly grayish heron with a pale or yellowish bill. Flies with neck folded, not extended. In southern Florida an all-white form, "Great White Heron," has greenish-yellow rather than black legs. © Tom Vezo Green Heron Butorides virescens 16-22" (41-56 cm). A dark, crow-sized heron. Crown black, back and wings dark gray-green or gray-blue (depending on lighting); neck chestnut colored. Bill dark; legs bright orange. Immatures have streaks on neck, breast, and sides. © Tom Vezo Snowy Egret Egretta thula 20-27" (51-69 cm). W. 3'2" (97 cm). Small, white heron with a slender black bill, black legs, and yellow feet. In breeding season, it has long lacy plumes on its head, neck, and back. Immature bird has yellow stripe up back of leg. © Stephen G. Maka Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax 23-28" (58-71 cm). W. 3'8" (1.1 m). A medium-sized, short-necked heron with black crown, back, gray wings, white underparts. Bill short, black, legs pinkish or yellowish. In breeding season it has 2 or more long white plumes on back of head. © Jack Dermid Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura 25-32" (64-81 cm). W. 6' (1.8 m). Eagle-sized blackish bird, In flight, wings held upward in a wide, shallow V; rolls, sways from side to side. Flight feathers silvery below. Tail long; head small, bare, reddish; gray in immatures. © Ron Austing Wood Duck Aix sponsa 17-20" (43-51 cm). A beautiful, crested, multicolored duck. Male patterned in iridescent greens, purples, and blues with distinctive white chin patch and face stripes; bill mainly red; tail long. Female grayish with broad white eye ring.    1 through 9 of 135 field check-list  |  Page 1 of 15 >