THE OFFICIAL TRAVEL & TOURISM SITE OF THE SARASOTA CONVENTION & VISITOR'S BUREAU
Nature - Sarasota
Nature - Sarasota
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