Travel Photography > Photos taken in USA and tagged as birds and scenery
The rock here is slighly under water and barely visible, but the Cormorants don't seem to mind
These birds are endangered, but can commonly be seen in the Everglades NP however.
These are slightly larger (by inches) than the black vultures. They also have red heads (vs black) and slightly different shaped wings.
I never realized how many different types of Heron's there are. We saw three just in the Royal Palms area today.
This was also at the Royal Palms nature walk area. We saw this bird, which wasn't very large, several Great Blue Herons, and a Tricolored Heron during the same walk.
The wildlife in the Royal Palms nature walk area are quite used to people. Mom actually went up and touched this Cormorant later, he just ignored her.
Stunning bird.
These have black, featherless heads as opposed to Turkey Vultures, which have read heads.
These birds are so common at the Royal Palms area, the walk is called the Anhinga Trail. I'd never heard of them before - they are somewhat similar in size & & behavior to Cormorants.
Like the Cormorant, the Anhinga dives to catch fish. It can't fly with wet wings, so stands like this to dry them after diving.
There seemed to be thousands of these in the Wal-mart parking lot. They have a fairly pleasing song actually.
This is a strange looking bird, but beautiful in an odd sort of way. This is the only stork native to North America.
If you look closely, you can see the tail of an alligator on the right. The birds don't seem to mind and feed in the same ponds and areas as the gators.
There were quite a few of these on the Anhinga walk at the Royal Palms area.
The female has the lighter colored neck, the male's is dark or black
While these were much smaller than the Great Blue Heron, they moved in a similar fashon and the family resemblance was obvious.
This was from the Cedar Island Ferry, near the beginning of the trip
This is just a sample of the many swans, egrets and ducks we saw here. There were also brown pelicans and blue herons, but I'm not sure you can see any in this picture.
I believe these are Trumpeter Swans (black beak), but have been wrong on my species identification before, so let me know
There are several ponds in the NWR, lots of birds on all of them
This bird was very close to the walk and didn't seem to notice all the attention he got from us tourists.
Mom really liked this wasp and was trying to get a closeup, so I thought I'd help also. The colors are unusual compared to wasps I've seen before.