Florida Photo Gallery: Everglades National Park

saw grass saw grass saw grass trail

West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus)

The best, and easiest, place for bird photography is the Anhinga Trail.

Anhinga Trail anhinga trail

Double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) and their prey, the spotted gar fish (garpike), Lepisosteus oculatus:

cormorant cormorant cormorant with gar cormorant cormorant gar cormorant cormorant

Anhingas (Anhinga anhinga):

anhinga anhinga anhinga and turtles anhinga wet anhinga and turtle anhinga

Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus):

osprey nest osprey pair osprey

Herons and egrets:

Great blue herons (blue and white morphs, Ardea herodias):

great blue heron great white heron

Green heron (Butorides virescens):

green heron

Tricolored heron (Egretta tricolor):

tricolor heron

Little blue heron (Egretta caerulea):

little blue heron

Great egret (Ardea Alba):

egret

Snowy egret (Egretta thula):

White ibises (Eudocimus albnus):

ibis ibises

Glossy ibis (Plegadis falcirellus):

Roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja):

Wood stork (Mycteria americana):

wood stork in flight

Purple gallinule (Porphyrio martinica):

purple gallinule

American crow (Corvus brachyrhyncos):

crow

Belted kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon):

belted kingfisher

American coot (Fulica americana):

coot

Pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps):

pied-billed grebe

American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchus):

Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis):

Laughing gull (Leucophaeus atricilla):

Turkey vulure (Cathartes aura):

turkey vulture

American kestrel (Falso sparverius):

Bald eagle, juvenile (Haliacetus leucocephalus):

Red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus):

Broad-winged hawk (Buteo platypterus):

Red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis):

Least flycatcher (Empidonax minimus):

Tennessee warbler (Vermivora peregrina):

warbler

Palm warbler (Setophaga palmarum):

Red-bellied woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus):

Insects:

dragonfly butterfly

Reptiles:

Florida redbelly turtles (Florida redbelly cooters), Pseudemys nelsoni, which eat spatterdock flowers:

painted turtles

Florida softshell turlte (Apolone ferox):

Alligators (Alligator mississippiensus):

alligator alligator closeup

American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus):

Plants

swamp lily flower

Spatterdock (cow lily, yellow pond lily) (Nuphar advena)

pond lily lotus seed pods

Airplant (Tillandsia sp.)

Sunset over the sawgrass prairie:

sunset clouds sunset sunset


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Last modified 18 February 2023