BCR 31 Priority Bird List
Highest
Great White Heron (B, N)
Ivory-billed Woodpecker (B, N, E)
Florida Scrub Jay (B, N)
Bachman’s Warbler (T)
Kirtland’s Warbler (T)
Piping Plover (N)
Wilson’s Plover (B)
American Oystercatcher (B, N)
Black Skimmer (B, N)
Reddish Egret (B, N)
Roseate Tern (B)
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (T)
Red-cockaded Woodpecker (B, N)
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow (N)
Seaside Sparrow (B, N) (Cape Sable subspecies)
Magnificent Frigatebird (B)
Audubon’s Shearwater (N, pelagic)
Snowy Plover (B, N)
Henslow’s Sparrow (N)
Wood Stork (B, N)
Long-billed Curlew (N)
Florida Prairie Warbler (B)
Snail Kite (B, E)
Short-tailed Hawk (B, N)
Limpkin (B, N)
Whooping Crane (B, N)
Loggerhead Shrike (B, N)
Painted Bunting (N)
Crested Caracara (B, N)
White-tailed Kite (B)
Smooth-billed Ani (B, N)
Swallow-tailed Kite (B, T)
White-breasted Nuthatch (B, N)
Brown-headed Nuthatch (B, N)
Grasshopper Sparrow (B,N)
Seaside Sparrow (AtlanticCoast races B,N)
Mottled Duck (B, N)
Southeastern American Kestrel (B)
High
Bicknell’s Thrush (T)
Yellow Rail (N)
Black Rail (B, N)
Brown Pelican (B, N)
Black-capped Petrel (N, pelagic)
Tricolored Heron (B, N)
King Rail (B, N)
Marbled Godwit (N)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (T)
Short-billed Dowitcher (N)
Wilson’s Phalarope (T)
Least Tern (B)
White-crowned Pigeon (B, N)
Mangrove Cuckoo (B, N?)
Antillean Nighthawk (B)
Black-whiskered Vireo (B)
American Bittern (N)
White Ibis (B, N)
Clapper Rail (B, N)
Solitary Sandpiper (T)
Upland Sandpiper (T)
Whimbrel (N)
Least Sandpiper (N)
Stilt Sandpiper (N)
American Woodcock (N)
Bachman’s Sparrow (B, N)
Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow (N)
Horned Grebe (N)
Magnificent Frigatebird (N)
Glossy Ibis (B, N)
Roseate Spoonbill (B, N)
American Golden-Plover (T)
American Avocet (N)
Lesser Yellowlegs (N)
Red Knot (N)
Sanderling (N)
Western Sandpiper (N)
Dunlin (N)
Sandwich Tern (B)
Common Tern (T)
Black Tern (T)
Common Ground-Dove (B, N)
Le Conte’s Sparrow (N)
Seaside Sparrow (GulfCoast races B,N)
Northern Bobwhite (B, N)
Anhinga (B, N)
Least Bittern (B)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (B, N)
Greater Flamingo (N)
Ruddy Turnstone (N)
Gull-billed Tern (B)
Common Nighthawk (B)
Chuck-will’s-widow (B)
Red-headed Woodpecker (B, N)
Eastern Meadowlark (B, N)
Masked Booby (N, pelagic)
Northern Gannet (N)
Little Blue Heron (B, N)
Purple Gallinule (B, N)
Northern Flicker (B, N)
Rusty Blackbird (N)
Red-throated Loon (N)
Sooty Shearwater (N, pelagic)
Brown Booby (N, pelagic)
Northern Harrier (N)
Burrowing Owl (B, N)
Vesper Sparrow (N)
Northern Pintail (N)
Canvasback (N)
Redhead (N)
Lesser Scaup (N)
Moderate Priority
Wood Duck (B, N)
American White Pelican (N)
Double-crested Cormorant (B, N)
Pied-billed Grebe (B)
Snowy Egret (B, N) also SL
Great Egret (B, N)
Prothonotary Warbler (B)
Field Sparrow (N)
Sandhill Crane (B, N,Florida subspecies)
Sandhill Crane (N) (eastern population segment of Greater subspecies)
Black-bellied Plover (N)
Semipalmated Plover (N)
Greater Yellowlegs (N)
Spotted Sandpiper (N)
Pectoral Sandpiper (T)
Bonaparte’s Gull (N)
Royal Tern (B)
Forster’s Tern (N)
Sooty Tern (B)
Brown Noddy (B)
Gray Kingbird (B)
Sedge Wren (N)
Cape May Warbler (T))
Black-throated Blue Warbler (T)
Connecticut Warbler (T)
Bobolink (T)
Osprey (Monroe County, Florida Keys, B only)
Peregrine Falcon (N)
Marsh Wren (B, N) (Worthington and Marian’s subspecies)
Black-necked Stilt (B, N)
Nuisance or Depradating Species
Cattle Egret
Purple Swamphen
Sacred Ibis
Game Species of Local or State Management and/or Economic Interest
American Wigeon (N)
Blue-winged Teal (N)
Ring-necked Duck (N)
Wild Turkey (B, N)
Virginia Rail (N)
Sora (N)
American Coot (N)
Mourning Dove (B, N)
(B=Breeding, N=Non-breeding or Wintering, M=Migrant or Transient, E=Endangered)