Category: wildlife

  • Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Birds that Begin with an “F”

    Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Birds that Begin with an “F”

    Welcome to Week #44 of the Bird Weekly Photo Challenge. Week #44 challenge is Birds beginning with the letter “F” (if a bird has more than one word of the name, you can use it as long as it begins with a “F”, ie: Ferruginous Hawk or House Finch)

  • A-Z Challenge – R is for Roseate Spoonbill

    A-Z Challenge – R is for Roseate Spoonbill

    Roseate Spoonbills are pale pink and white birds with a patch of brighter pink on the shoulders and rump. They are so named because of their spoon-shaped bill. Crustaceans and other aquatic invertebrates contain pigments called carotenoids that help turn their feathers pink after they eat them. The more they eat, the brighter pink in…

  • A-Z Challenge – Q is for Quail

    A-Z Challenge – Q is for Quail

    Gambel’s Quail live in the Sonoran, Chihuahuan and Mojave deserts in the western part of the United States. They inhabit thorny and brushy vegetation and can be seen along river valleys and creeks.

  • A-Z Challenge – P is for Pelican

    A-Z Challenge – P is for Pelican

    Pelican Island, a part of the Everglades Headwaters NWR complex located off the western coast of Orchid Island in the Indian River Lagoon just east of Sebastian, Florida was the first National Wildlife Refuge in the United States in 1903. President Theodore Roosevelt signed an executive order on March 14, 1903 to protect egrets and…

  • A-Z Challenge – O is for Owl

    A-Z Challenge – O is for Owl

    Great Horned Owls usually adopt a nest that was originally built by another species, often an abandoned Red-tailed Hawk or other hawk species.

  • SQUARES – Bright Future

    SQUARES – Bright Future

    There are seven species of sea turtles on the planet and six of them are on the threatened or endangered list because of humans. Some of the hazards for sea turtles is them getting entangled in fishing gear, the loss of habitat due to coastal development, poaching and ocean pollution including plastic. All seven species…

  • A-Z Challenge – N is for Night-Heron

    A-Z Challenge – N is for Night-Heron

    The Black-crowned Night-Heron is a resident to medium-distance migrant. There are populations that don’t migrate at and stay in the same area year-round or will travel short distances.

  • Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Baby Birds

    Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Baby Birds

    Welcome to Week #43 of the Bird Weekly Photo Challenge. Week #43 challenge is Birds with chicks or Baby Birds or Nests with Eggs.

  • A-Z Challenge – M is for Merganser

    A-Z Challenge – M is for Merganser

    Hooded Mergansers are resident to medium distance migrants in North America. Florida gets them in the late winter, but they don’t breed in our state.

  • A-Z Challenge – L is for Limpkin

    A-Z Challenge – L is for Limpkin

    Limpkins are brown and white birds with a very loud piercing call. They are a tropical wetland bird that resembles herons and egrets, however they are more closely related to rails and cranes.