Wildlife
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Don Francis
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The extensive wetlands at L. Kirk Edwards attract a variety of wading
birds and waterfowl. The artificially stabilized water levels attract
the largest rookery of endangered wood storks in north Florida. Wood
ducks, anhingas, great blue and green-backed herons and a variety of
other wading birds nest and raise their young here. Frogs bellow and
Eastern kingbirds, red-winged blackbirds and boat-tailed grackles
noisily stake out breeding territories. Watch for iridescent purple
gallinules as they skate from lily pad to lily pad and the many pairs of
osprey that nest and fish on the Lafayette chain of lakes. Wood ducks,
American coots and common gallinules are year round residents and are
joined in the fall and winter by blue- and green-winged teal and
ring-necked ducks.
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