Category: Writing Prompts

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • A-Z Challenge – K is for Kingfisher

    A-Z Challenge – K is for Kingfisher

    The Belted Kingfisher is a large stocky fish-eating bird with a high pitched call. They are blue-gray and white, however the female has a chestnut colored band around the belly and along the flanks that are not evident in the male.

  • A-Z Challenge – J is for Jay

    A-Z Challenge – J is for Jay

    The Florida Scrub-Jay can only be found in…you guessed it….Florida. They have a flat untufted head similar to the California Scrub-Jay.

  • A-Z Challenge – I is for Ibis

    A-Z Challenge – I is for Ibis

    The Glossy Ibis looks black however if you have a good pair of binoculars, you will be able to see deep maroon, emerald, bronze and violet feathers.