Official Florida State Bird List
Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee
This is a list of modern bird species definitely having occurred in Florida by natural
appearance or by establishment of an exotic. The base list shall be the Supplement:
Checklist of Florida Birds, pp. 255-260 in Robertson & Woolfenden (1992), as
updated by final decisions of the Florida Ornithological Society’s Records Committee.
The following list of 503 species is updated through 12 September 2008. Established
exotics (e); extinct native species (x) and disestablished exotics (d); and species
listed without verifiable evidence (u) shall be so annotated. Sibling species groups
may be included without reference to a particular underlying species but shall not
be counted in any total of species found in Florida unless none of the underlying
species are on the state list. Species in the list below annotated with an
* should be documented when detected in Florida and submitted to the FOSRC for review.
In addition, documentation should be submitted to the FOSRC for any species detected
in Florida , believed to have occurred naturally or to have escaped, but not appearing
in the main list of the aforementioned publication.
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