{"id":760908,"date":"2016-01-14T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=c1697f70db7efdd7143b03c5d46dc354"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:03:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:03:36","slug":"wakodahatchee-wetlands-122016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wakodahatchee-wetlands-122016\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakodahatchee Wetlands, 1\/2\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

On New Year’s Day our family drove down to Palm Beach County to visit my brother-in-law. The following morning I decided to visit Wakodahatchee Wetlands.<\/p>\n

It’s a wonderful place with a beautifully maintained board walk that takes you through the wetlands. My primary hope was to see the Neotropic Cormorant that has been hanging out here. It took a while, but eventually it showed itself–a nice, bright white line surrounding its gular pouch.<\/p>\n

My father and I also visited the park on Dec. 27th, so I thought I’d share photos from both of my visits. My December visit was the first day I’d seen a Neotropic Cormorant in the U.S.<\/p>\n

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Neotropic Cormorant – Jan 2, 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Neotropic Cormorant – December 27, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also saw another cormorant that looks like it might be a hybrid Neotropic x Double-crested Cormorant, but I’m no expert on these things. It seems to have the white outline to the yellow gular pouch, but it’s more faint than it should be.<\/p>\n

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Neotropic x Double-crested Cormorant Hybrid – January 2, 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The wetlands area is a wonderful place for ducks, wading birds and other marshy birds. All kinds of herons and egrets can be seen here.<\/p>\n

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Tricolored Heron – December 27, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Black-crowned Night Heron – January 2, 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And some even breed here<\/p>\n

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Great Blue Herons – January 2, 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s even home to some birds that don’t really belong here, like Gray-headed Swamphens, which escaped a few years ago and now have established themselves throughout southern Florida.<\/p>\n

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Gray-headed Swamphen – January 2, 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There were also two species of invasive reptiles. There were several bright orange iguanas, oddly named Common Green Iguana, and a Brown Basilisk.<\/p>\n

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Common Green Iguana – January 2, 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Brown Basilisk – January 2, 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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