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Families: 13

Genera: 26

Species: 45

Total Taxa: 45 (including subsp. and var.)

Ardea alba
great egret
Ardea herodias
great blue heron
Arenaria interpres
Ruddy Turnstone
Calidris alba
Sanderling
Calidris fuscicollis
white-rumped sandpiper
Calidris himantopus
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris maritima
Purple Sandpiper
Calidris mauri
western sandpiper
Calidris melanotos
Pectoral Sandpiper
Calidris minutilla
Least Sandpiper
Calidris pusilla
semipalmated sandpiper
Caretta caretta
Loggerhead Sea Turtle
Charadrius alexandrinus
Kentish Plover
Charadrius melodus
piping plover
Chelonia mydas
Green Sea Turtle
Chlidonias niger
Black Tern
Dermochelys coriacea
Leatherback Sea Turtle
Donax variabilis
Variable Coquina
Emerita talpoida
Atlantic Mole Crab
Eretmochelys imbricata
Hawksbill Sea Turtle
Gelochelidon nilotica
Gull-billed Tern
Haematopus palliatus
American oystercatcher
Hydroprogne caspia
Caspian Tern
Larus argentatus
Herring Gull
Larus atricilla
Laughing Gull
Larus delawarensis
Ring-billed Gull
Larus marinus
Great Black-backed Gull
Larus philadelphia
Bonaparte's Gull
Lepidochelys kempii
Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
Ocypode quadrata
Ghost Crab
Procyon lotor
Raccoon
Rynchops niger
black skimmer
Sterna dougallii
roseate tern
Sterna forsteri
Forster's Tern
Sterna hirundo
Common Tern
Thalasseus maximus
Royal Tern
Trachinotus carolinus
Florida pompano
Tringa flavipes
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleuca
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa solitaria
Solitary Sandpiper
The Indian River Lagoon Species Inventory is a partner initiative of the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce and
the Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program.