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The Wings Over Florida Checklist

View and print the NEW Wings Over Florida 2002 CHECKLIST.

Hard copies of the 2002 checklist booklet are available
when you order your free Wings Over Florida application
packet from WOF@FWC.STATE.FL.US.

This checklist, revised in 2002, contains 485 species (470 native Florida birds, 11 established exotics, and 4 native species now considered extinct in Florida). 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).

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

TAXONOMIC CHANGES AND ADDITIONAL SPECIES COUNTABLE TOWARDS WINGS OVER FLORIDA CERTIFICATES (Last Updated 10/4/02).

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.