(A) Blue-footed booby, Sula nebouxii (A) Brown booby, Sula leucogaster (A) Red-footed booby, Sula sula (A) Northern gannet, Morus bassanus Anhingas Order: SuliformesFamily: Anhingidae Anhingas are cormorant-like water birds with very long necks and long, straight beaks. They are fish eaters which often swim with only their neck above water. Anhinga, Anhinga anhinga (A) Cormorants and shags Order: SuliformesFamily: Phalacrocoracidae Cormorants are medium-to-large aquatic birds, usually with mainly dark plumage and areas of coloured skin on the face. The bill is long, thin, and sharply hooked. Their feet are four-toed and webbed. Brandt's cormorant, Urile penicillatus Red-faced cormorant, Urile urile (A) Pelagic cormorant, Urile pelagicus Great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo Double-crested cormorant, Nannopterum auritum Neotropic cormorant, Nannopterum brasilianum (A) Pelicans Order: PelecaniformesFamily: Pelecanidae Pelicans are very large water birds with a distinctive pouch under their beak. Like other birds in the order Pelecaniformes, they have four webbed toes. American white pelican, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis Herons, egrets, and bitterns Order: PelecaniformesFamily: Ardeidae The family Ardeidae contains the herons, egrets, and bitterns. Herons and egrets are medium to large wading birds with long necks and legs. Bitterns tend to be shorter necked and more secretive. Members of Ardeidae fly with their necks retracted, unlike other long-necked birds such as storks, ibises, and spoonbills. American bittern, Botaurus lentiginosus Least bittern, Ixobrychus exilis Great blue heron, Ardea herodias Grey heron, Ardea cinerea (A) Great egret, Ardea alba Little egret, Egretta garzetta (A) Western reef-heron, Egretta gularis (A) Snowy egret, Egretta thula Little blue heron, Egretta caerulea (A) Tricolored heron, Egretta tricolor (A) Reddish egret, Egretta rufescens (A) Cattle egret, Bubulcus ibis Green heron, Butorides virescens Black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax Yellow-crowned night-heron, Nyctanassa violacea (A) Ibises and spoonbills Order: PelecaniformesFamily: Threskiornithidae Members of this family have long, broad wings, are strong fliers and, rather surprisingly, given their size and weight, very capable soarers. The body tends to be elongated, the neck more so, with rather long legs. The bill is also long, decurved in the case of the ibises, straight and distinctively flattened in the spoonbills. White ibis, Eudocimus albus (A) Glossy ibis, Plegadis falcinellus White-faced ibis, Plegadis chihi Roseate spoonbill, Ajaia ajaja (A) New World vultures Order: CathartiformesFamily: Cathartidae The New World vultures are not closely related to Old World vultures, but superficially resemble them because of convergent evolution. Like the Old World vultures, they are scavengers. However, unlike Old World vultures,