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Keep these fun facts and tips handy for your next wading
bird encounter:
- A Wood Stork can snap shut its bill in 25 milliseconds, one of
the fastest reflex responses known for vertebrates!
- It takes two!
For Great Blue Herons, Roseate Spoonbills, and other wading birds,
both parents alternate incubation duties.
- Roseate Spoonbills are
the only spoonbills native to the Western Hemisphere.
- No spring
chicken here. In April 2006, researchers at the Audubon of Florida
in Tern Key, Florida discovered the oldest living Roseate Spoonbill,
16-year old “Enrico.”
- The mascot for the University
of Miami is “Sebastian,” a
White Ibis!
Resources for this article
have been provided by the Marine
Resources Council,
the National Wildlife
Refuge Association, and
Audubon
of Florida. |
