Most Commonly Sighted Birds of the Estero Bay Aquatic Preserve and Surrounding Environs

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Brown pelicans on rookery island, Estero Bay. Photo courtesy Calusa Coast Outfitters Ruddy Turnstone Piping Plover Wilson's Plover American Egret Great Blue heron Great White heron (rare) Snowy Egret Cattle Egret Tri-color Heron Reddish Egret Little Blue Heron Green Heron Yellow-crowned Night Heron Black-crowned Night Heron Magnificant Frigatebird Double-crested Cormorant Anhinga Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Brown Pelican White Pelican (winter) Common, least, royal terns Black Skimmer American Oystercatcher Long-billed Curlew Snowy Plover Willet Greater Yellowlegs Western Sandpiper Marbled Godwit Dunlin Knot Short-billed, Long-billed Dowitcher Black-necked Stilt Sanderling White Ibis Glossy Ibis (occasionally) Laughing Gull Ring-bill Gull Bonaparte's Gull Royal Tern Caspian Tern Least Tern Roseate Spoonbill Pileated Woodpecker Osprey Swallow-tailed Kite Southern Bald Eagle