Central Florida birds

[thouc]

Black-bellied Whistling Duck, lifer


Egyptian Goose, lifer, non-native


Muscovy Duck, non-native


Mottled Duck


Hooded Merganser


Rock Pigeon


Common Gallinule


Purple Gallinule


Limpkin


Sandhill Crane


Black-bellied Plover


Ruddy Turnstone, they were begging for food at the beach


Sanderling


Willet


Laughing Gull


Forster's Tern


Royal Tern


Black Skimmer


Wood Stork


Magnificent Frigatebird, lifer


Anhinga


Brown Pelican


Great Blue Heron


Great Egret


Snowy Egret


Little Blue Heron


Tricolored Heron


White Ibis


Black Vulture


Osprey


Snail Kite, lifer


Bald Eagle


Red-shouldered Hawk


Belted Kingfisher


Red-bellied Woodpecker


Pileated Woodpecker


Eastern Phoebe


Loggerhead Shrike


Northern Mockingbird


Boat-tailed Grackle


Yellow-throated Warbler, lifer

[Dinusaur]

Fantastic variety of birds and congratulations on your lifers. Interestingly I spent a week in Durham during my Christmas break and traveled to Wrightsville Beach by the Atlantic coast on Dec 21. I managed to find two life birds in the form of Black Skimmer and Anhinga. The Skimmers (26 altogether) were a bit far away and my images are no match for the details that you got.
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[thouc]

Many of the birds there were very unconcerned about people nearby (or even approaching for handouts) so it made it easier to get good photos.