Wings Over Florida Birding Checklist

All species in the checklist include birds for which there is at least one "verified" Florida record.  Verified records are photos, specimens, or voice recordings of birds that have been reviewed and accepted by the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee (FOSRC).  Accidentals, birds that stray into Florida (without human assistance) from other parts of the United States, the Caribbean or other countries, are countable towards WOF certificates. Please note that no other nonnative species may be counted towards Wings Over Florida certificates.

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Taxonomic Changes and Additional Species Countable
Towards Wings Over Florida Certificates
(Last Updated 8/21/2007)

Additional verified records not listed in the checklist, but still countable towards certificates, will be listed below as they are verified by the FOSRC.
 

Officially added August 18, 2007

• Loggerhead Kingbird
• White Wagtail
• Neotropic Cormorant

Officially added February 12,  2007

• Hammond's Flycatcher

Officially added to State & Review lists, 2006

• Northern Fulmar
• Lesser Sand-Plover

Officially added to State & Review lists, 2005

• Belcher's Gull
• Varied Bunting

Officially added to State & Review lists, April 23, 2004

• Piratic Flycatcher

Removed from State List

• Variegated Flycatcher

Officially added to State & Review lists, March 11, 2004

• Cackling Goose
• Broad-billed Hummingbird
• Bicknell's Thrush

Officially added July 2003

• Eurasian Kestrel
• Slaty-backed Gull
• Mangrove Swallow
• Mountain Bluebird
• Hooded Oriole

Officially Added June 2002

• Short-tailed Shearwater

Taxonomic Change

• The delicata group of the Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) now has full species status as the Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago delicata). See 43rd suppl. to the AOU checklist for details (The Auk, Vol. 119, p. 899). Wilson's Snipe is now described as the species commonly found in the U.S. according to the AOU, while Common Snipe is now the Eurasian species.