#wading-birds
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Anhinga Trail — Everglades National Park's Easiest Eye-to-Eye Wildlife Encounter
Eight-tenths of a mile of paved boardwalk over Taylor Slough, four miles inside the Homestead entrance, and in dry season every wading bird and alligator in the southern Glades funnels in. The easiest big-wildlife walk in Florida.
Ding Darling NWR — Florida's Best Wildlife Drive and Where the Roseate Spoonbills Stop
Four miles of one-way road through 6,400 acres of mangrove and tidal flat on Sanibel Island. Time it with low tide and you'll see roseate spoonbills, reddish egrets, and white pelicans at twenty feet. Closed Fridays so the birds get a rest.
The Limpkin — The Bird That Sounds Like a Banshee, Eats Only Apple Snails, and Is Surging Because of an Invasion
Twenty years ago you had to drive deep into central Florida marsh to hear one. Now there's a pair on the 14th-hole pond and they scream like a murder victim at 4 AM. Meet the limpkin — the bird whose population exploded because an invasive snail rolled into town.
Reddish Egret — Merritt Island NWR's Dancing Fisher
Roughly 2,000 breeding pairs in the entire United States — and Merritt Island NWR holds the densest viewing strip. Drive Black Point an hour after low tide and you'll see the canopy-feeding dance no other heron does.