This is the formal list of modern bird species that have occurred in Florida by natural appearance or by establishment as an exotic. The base list is the Checklist of Florida Birds, pp. 255-260 in Robertson & Woolfenden (1992), as updated by final decisions of the Florida Ornithological Society's Records Committee. Status = Review species (Review), established exotics (Exotic); extinct or extirpated native species (Extinct) and disestablished exotics (Disestablished Exotic). Extinct species do not reduce the size of the Florida list, but a disestablished exotic species does. A distinctive member of a subspecies group may be added to the list for review purposes (see below), but it shall not be counted on the list beyond the species' presence there. Review species 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 below or in its formatted download versions.

Currently, there are 552 total taxa of which 11 are subspecies, four are extinct, and one is a disestablished exotic leaving 536 extant species. Of these 536 species 17 are established exotics. One-hundred seventy-eight (178) taxa should be reported for review.