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Small Key Deer doe and fawn standing on a quiet pine rockland trail at dusk
Wildlife

Key Deer Refuge — The 30-Inch Whitetail That Only Lives in the Lower Keys

Big Pine Key has a deer that stands 30 inches at the shoulder, weighs 50 pounds, and exists nowhere else on Earth. About 700 of them. Down from 50 in the 1950s. You can watch them for free at dusk from a dirt road off Watson Blvd.
Florida Scrub-Jay perched on a low scrub oak branch with bright blue plumage against pine flatwoods
Wildlife

Florida Scrub-Jay — Oscar Scherer State Park and Florida's Only Endemic Bird

The Florida Scrub-Jay is the only bird species found nowhere else on Earth but Florida. Population fell from 40,000 to 4,000 in a century. Oscar Scherer State Park, Sarasota County, is where you go to see one — at sunrise, on the Lester Finley Trail.