A Catalog of Shore Birds Photographed along the Golden Islands
Photos from: St. Simons, Jekyll, Little St. Simons, and Brunswick Georgia
Short-billed dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus)
Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger)
Black Crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
Rossate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)
Royal Tern- Juvenile (Thalasseus maximus)
Willet (Tringa semipalmata)
Forester's Tern (Sterna forsteri)
Semipalmated Plover (Charadrisus semipalmata)
Wood Stork (Mycetera americana)
Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
American Golden Plover (Pluvialis dominica)
Sanderling (Calidris alba)
Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
American Oyster Catcher (Haemoatopus palliatus)
Tricolor Heron (Egretta tricolor)
Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
Great Egret (Ardea alba)
Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)
Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
Tricolor Heron (Egretta tricolor)
Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans)
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
Mallard
Barred Owl
Northern harrier Sometimes called a marsh hawk
Eastern Phoebe
Black-bellied whistling ducks
Blue winged teals
Carolina Chickadee
Glossy Ibis
Tricolor heron
Least sandpiper
White Pelican
Laughing gull
Diamondback Terrapin