I thought this week we would take a look at some of the birds we have observed on our Florida birding trips. We have been visiting Cape San Blas in the Florida Panhandle for the last 12 years and every couple of years take an extended birding trip down the ocean seaboard to Everglades National Park and back up the gulf side hitting some of the major Florida birding sites along the way.
Among the most elegant of the herons, the slender Snowy Egret sets off immaculate white plumage with black legs and brilliant yellow feet.
Those feet seem to play a role in stirring up or herding small aquatic animals as the egret forages.
Breeding Snowy Egrets grow filmy, curving plumes that once fetched astronomical prices in the fashion industry, endangering the species.
Early conservationists rallied to protect egrets by the early twentieth century, and this species is once again a common sight in shallow coastal wetlands.
Cornell All About Birds
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