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BIRDS

Birds are warm-blooded vertebrates of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, no teeth, and bear young in a hard-shelled egg.

Common Name Scientific Name Status
Albatross, short-tailed Phoebastria albatrus VU
Cotinga, banded Cotinga maculata EN
Crane, whooping Grus americana EN
Crow, white-necked Corvus leucognaphalus VU
Curassow, red-billed Crax blumenbachii EN
Curlew, Eskimo Numenius borealis CR
Eagle, Greenland white-tailed Haliaeetus albicilla groenlandicus EN
Eider, Steller's Polysticta stelleri VU
Grebe, Atitlan Podilymbus gigas EX
Guan, horned Oreophasis derbianus EN
Hermit, hook-billed (hummingbird) Ramphodon dohrnii EN
Ibis, northern bald Geronticus eremita CR
Kite, Everglade snail Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus EN
Macaw, glaucous Anodorhynchus glaucus CR
Macaw, Lear's or indigo Anodorhynchus leari CR
Parakeet, blue-throated Pyrrhura cruentata VU
Parakeet, golden Aratinga guarouba EN
Parrot, red-browed Amazona rhodocorytha EN
Parrot, red-spectacled Amazona pretrei pretrei VU
Parrot, red-tailed Amazona brasiliensis VU
Parrot, vinaceous-breasted Amazona vinacea EN
Piping-guan, black-fronted Pipile jacutinga EN
Scrub-jay, Florida Aphelocoma coerulescens VU
Siskin, red Carduelis cucullata EN
Sparrow, Cape Sable seaside Ammodramus maritimus mirabilis EN
Warbler (wood), Bachman's Vermivora bachmanii CR
Warbler, golden-cheeked Dendroica chrysoparia EN
Woodpecker, ivory-billed Campephilus principalis CR
Woodpecker, red-cockaded Picoides borealis VU
 
VU = Vulnerable EN = Endangered CR = Critically Endangered EW = Extinct in the Wild

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