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Flights of Fancy
Southwest Florida enjoys some of the state's most exciting bird watching. Most are within easy view, but bring
your binoculars.
Celery Fields
Great blue herons, little blue herons, green herons, great egrets, snowy egrets, anhinga, cormorants, white ibis,
osprey, barn owls, bald eagles, red-tailed hawks, sandhill cranes, wood storks, and roseate spoonbills
Crowley Museum and Nature Center
White pelicans, roseate spoonbills, bald eagles, wood storks and red-shouldered hawks
Curry Creek Preserve
Red-winged blackbirds, pine warblers, red-shouldered hawks, blue-headed vireos and pileated woodpeckers
Jelks Preserve
Red-shouldered hawks, yellow-rumped warblers, Eastern towhees, blue-gray gnatcatchers, osprey and barred owls
Lemon Bay Park and Environmental Center
Bald eagles, osprey, brown pelicans, white ibis, warblers and pileated and downy woodpeckers
Lemon Bay Preserve
Florida scrub-jays, bald eagles, osprey, hawks brown threshers and Eastern towhees
Manasota Scrub Preserve
Bald eagles, osprey, hawks, bobwhite quail, wood storks, sandhill cranes and roseate spoonbills
Myakka Prairie
Great blue herons, little blue herons, great egrets, snowy egrets, wood storks, white ibis, turkey vultures, swallow-tailed
kites, bald eagles, red-shouldered hawks and osprey
Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park
Sandhill cranes, great-crested flycatchers and warblers
Pelican Man Bird Sanctuary
Home to 275 permanently disabled birds that represent 70 species of Florida's native and migratory birds
Quick Point Nature Preserve
Snowy egrets, white ibis, herring gulls, great blue herons, great egrets, green herons, tri-color herons and osprey
Red Bug Slough Preserve
Red-shouldered hawks, white ibis, little blue herons, snowy egrets, tri-colored herons and bald eagles
T. Mabry Carlton Jr. Memorial Reserve
Snowy egrets, great egrets, great blue herons, great white herons, little blue herons, green herons, swallow-tailed
kites, roseate spoonbills, white ibis, osprey and hawks
Venice Rookery
Great blue herons, great egrets, snowy egrets, anhinga, cormorants, white ibis, black-crowned night herons, common
moorhen, pied-billed grebes and wood storks
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