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We visited both Sanibel and Captiva Islands today, the two low lying islands being connected by a short causeway. Sanibel is home to the Ding Darling Nature Reserve, where a wide variety of birds can be seen due to the abundance of fish and mollusks found in the shallow flats, the main source of food for most of the birds in this area. We saw a great variety, both indigenous and migratory northern birds who spend the winter in the south. We drove through the Reserve in the morning, had lunch on Captiva Island, and returned to the Reserve in the afternoon for a tour with a well informed ranger from the Park Service.

A Wood Stork probing the flats for food

The Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) is a large American wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It was formerly called the "Wood Ibis", though it is not really an ibis. As of August 28, 2013 it is classified as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, although there have been proposals to downlist it to threatened.This is a subtropical and tropical species which breeds in much of South America, Central America and the Caribbean. The Wood Stork is the only stork that presently breeds in North America. In the United States there is a small and endangered breeding population in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, along with a recently discovered rookery in southeastern North Carolina. On the other hand, in Santa Catarina state (Brazil), its decline seems to have been reversed: after an absence between the late 1960s and the mid-1990s.
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Great Egret ascending

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Great Egret ascending

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LaurieKelley Mar 6, 2014 04:54 PM
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Roseate Spoonbill

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Willets coming in for a landing

Drab grayish-brown in the winter, Willets have a striking wing pattern in flight.
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Willets on patrol

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White Ibis

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Roseate Spoonbill

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Wood Stork

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Roseate Spoonbill

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Willets ands Ibis at a buffet

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A Great Egret and Wood Stork on the flats

Capture Date: Feb 5, 2014 12:48 PMViews: 22

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