Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga) - A dark gray-black bird with a long slender neck, also known as the "snakebird" because it swims with its body under water and only its neck visible. It fishes for its food, and because of the lack of oil in its feathers, it must dry its feathers in order to fly again after it has been in the water. This is why anhingas are often seen with their wings spread out to dry in the sun.

Bald Eagle - A bird of prey that is black with a white head and tail feathers and a yellow beak. It uses its beak to tear its prey to eat. A bald eagle's nest can be very large, up to 2000 pounds, and is always high up in a tall tree.

Black Vulture (Coragypus atratus) - A large black bird often seen in the trees or flying overhead where it watches for bodies of animals - its primary food. The turkey vulture has a red head.

Common Gallinule - A duck-like bird, dark slate gray in color with a red and yellow bill.

Great Blue Heron - Very large heron with gray-blue feathers with yellowish bill, often seen wading.

Great White Egret - Large, white egret with a yellow bill and black legs.

Green Heron - A small heron with bright yellowish-orange legs, often seen on lily pads.

Limpkin (Aramus guarauna) - A rare mottled brown and white bird found along the water's edge where it hunts for "apple" snails, its favored food. The apple snail is found almost exclusively at Wakulla Springs.

Osprey - A great bird of prey, with a grayish color, often seen soaring over waterways.

Pileated Woodpecker - A black bird with white neck stripes and white wing lining. It has a red crest (pointed feathers) on its head. It is usually a forest bird, and makes its home in dead trees. The tree may have been struck by lightning and taken over by termites and other wood eating insects. The woodpecker likes to peck at the bark to find insects for food.

Purple Gallinule - A distinctive bird with a purplish body and an orange beak with a yellow tip. The gallinule does not have webbed feet and often walks on water plants on top of the water.

Snowy Egret - A smaller, white egret with black bill and legs, but yellow feet.

Swallowtail Kite - A dramatic white and black bird of prey. It is known for its beautiful soaring flight and spends most of its day sailing on air currents, using its tail to stabilize and direct its flight.

Turkey - A shy creature, whose males have a red head and beard and brown tips on his tail feathers. Turkey oak trees provide good food for turkeys - they like acorns.

White Ibis - A white bird with an orange bill and legs that lives in swampy areas. The white ibis is actually brown when it is young.

Wood Duck - The male has distinctive green, purple and blue markings and crested (longer, pointed) feathers on his head.