Birds of Frenchman's Creek 2025 - 2026

GREAT HORNED OWL Great Horned owls are adaptable birds and live in the Arctic to South America. They are at home in suburbia as well as in woods and farmlands. Northern populations migrate in winter, but most live permanently in more temperate climes.

GREEN HERON Green Herons inhabit small, freshwater wetlands, ponds, and stream-sides with thick vegetation at their margins.

WHITE IBIS One of the most numerous wading birds in Florida, and common elsewhere in the southeast. Highly sociable at all seasons, roosting and feeding in flocks, nesting in large colonies.

RUBY CROWNED KINGLET The Ruby Crowned Kinglet is a very small passerine bird found throughout North America. It is a member of the kinglet family. The bird has olive-green plumage with two white wing bars and a white eye-ring. Males have a red crown patch.

SWALLOW-TAILED KITE Swallow-tailed Kites are large but slender and buoyant raptors. They have long, narrow, pointed wings, slim bodies, and a very long, deeply forked tail. The bill is small and sharply hooked.

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