Bird AlbumUnited States · Florida
San Carlos Bay/Bunche Beach Preserve
230 species and 190,260 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: December–April, with up to 128 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
WilletTringa semipalmata
Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
American White IbisEudocimus albus
SanderlingCalidris alba
DunlinCalidris alpina
OspreyPandion haliaetus
Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
Reddish EgretEgretta rufescens
Double-crested CormorantNannopterum auritum
Great Blue HeronArdea herodiasSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- J. N. Ding Darling NWR – Wildlife Drive15 km258 species
- Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve18 km220 species
- Harns Marsh34 km226 species
- Audubon Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary38 km263 species
- Babcock-Webb WMA43 km218 species
- Eagle Lakes Community Park51 km245 species
All 230 species recorded here
- Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis
- Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Willet Tringa semipalmata
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Reddish Egret Egretta rufescens
- Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
- Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus
- Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Double-crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum
- Piping Plover Charadrius melodus
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Black Skimmer Rynchops niger
- Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
- Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
- Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
- Wilson's Plover Anarhynchus wilsonia
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus
- Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
- Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
- American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
- Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor
- Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea
- Red Knot Calidris canutus
- Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula
- Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
- Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
- Wood Stork Mycteria americana
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
- Least Tern Sternula antillarum
- Boat-tailed Grackle Quiscalus major
- Green Heron Butorides virescens
- Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
- Common Loon Gavia immer
- Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula
- Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
- Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina
- Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
- White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
- Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
- Magnificent Frigatebird Fregata magnificens
- Snowy Plover Anarhynchus nivosus
- Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Myrtle Warbler Setophaga coronata
- Black Scoter Melanitta americana
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
- Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
- American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- Brant Goose Branta bernicla
- Merlin Falco columbarius
- Western Cattle Egret Ardea ibis
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- American Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber
- Mangrove Cuckoo Coccyzus minor
- Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
- Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
- Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica
- Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
- Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
- Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata
- Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus
- Northern Parula Setophaga americana
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Purple Martin Progne subis
- Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Black Tern Chlidonias niger
- Bonaparte's Gull Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Orange-crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata
- Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
- Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius
- American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii
- American Kestrel Falco sparverius
- Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
- Grey Kingbird Tyrannus dominicensis
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
- Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus
- Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
- Limpkin Aramus guarauna
- Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Saltmarsh Sparrow Ammospiza caudacuta
- Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
- Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
- Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
- Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
- Mangrove Warbler Setophaga petechia
- Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
- American Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
- Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius
- White-winged Scoter Melanitta deglandi
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Nelson's Sparrow Ammospiza nelsoni
- Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
- Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus
- Northern Gannet Morus bassanus
- Clapper Rail Rallus crepitans
- Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
- Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscatus
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Redhead Aythya americana
- Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
- House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
- Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum
- Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
- Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia
- Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
- Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
- Brown Noddy Anous stolidus
- Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
- Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens
- Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
- Razorbill Alca torda
- American Robin Turdus migratorius
- Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Wood Duck Aix sponsa
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
- Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Louisiana Waterthrush Parkesia motacilla
- Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
- Sora Porzana carolina
- Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula
- Eastern Screech Owl Megascops asio
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- American Pipit Anthus rubescens
- Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis
- Monk Parakeet Myiopsitta monachus
- Dickcissel Spiza americana
- Veery Catharus fuscescens
- Swainson's Warbler Limnothlypis swainsonii
- American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus
- Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
- Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
- Barred Owl Strix varia
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Crested Caracara Caracara plancus
- Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
- Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus
- Hooded Warbler Setophaga citrina
- Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
- American Barn Owl Tyto furcata
- Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
- Eastern Whip-poor-will Antrostomus vociferus
- Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
- Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
- Parasitic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus
- Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis
- Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Black-whiskered Vireo Vireo altiloquus
- Chuck-will's-widow Antrostomus carolinensis
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
- Nanday Parakeet Aratinga nenday
- Prothonotary Warbler Protonotaria citrea
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Cockatiel Nymphicus hollandicus
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- White-crowned Pigeon Patagioenas leucocephala
- American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Snail Kite Rostrhamus sociabilis
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- Brown-headed Nuthatch Sitta pusilla
- Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Mute Swan Cygnus olor
- Common Eider Somateria mollissima
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at San Carlos Bay/Bunche Beach Preserve?
December–April. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 128 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at San Carlos Bay/Bunche Beach Preserve?
230 species, from 190,260 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at San Carlos Bay/Bunche Beach Preserve in November?
The most recorded in November: Brown Pelican, Willet, Laughing Gull, American White Ibis and Sanderling.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.