Laughing Gull in winter plumage
The only gull that nests in our state
The largest rookery in Florida is on the southern end of Egmont Key NWR where approximately 33,000 PAIRS nest!
Aptly named Ring-billed Gull
The 2nd most common gull in Florida, a distant 2nd to the Laughing Gull
Red-breasted Mergansers
Females
They breed farther north and winter farther south than any of the other American mergansers
Preening to keep those all-important feathers in good working order
Horned Grebe, another winter visitor
They breed in Canada and Alaska
They regularly eat some of their own feathers, enough that the stomach usually contains a matted plug of feathers. This plug may function as a filter or may hold fish bones in the stomach until they can be digested.
Monofilament line kills!
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