The Everglades
The Everglades is a unique wetland ecosystem on the margin of the tropics. Its slow flow of water supports grasslands, thick forests, and a diverse group of animal, fish, and bird. The Everglades originated between 8000 to 10,000 years ago at the end of the most recent of the ice age. The melting of the glaciers caused the sea levels to rise and form a low-lying basin into a swamp. The climate of the Everglades is tropical savanna caused by hot, wet summers and warm, dry winters. The average annual rainfall exceeds 50 inches. Cypress, mangrove thickets, palms, live oaks, pines and lush vegetation cover the numerous inlets. Wildlife, although severely reduced in number and diversity over the past century, is still abundant and includes alligators, American crocodiles, deer, wading birds, fish, snakes, and the endangered Florida panther.
White pelicans are amazing birds and weighing 10-13 pounds they have the second greatest wingspan of any bird in North America. It's hard to believe that these monstrosities can soar with the grace of flying ballerinas. These birds migrate a long distance in the summer to the interior lakes of U.S. and Canada. Before leaving, breeding adults develop a horny plate or knob on their bills, believed to be a target for the other adults when they arrive. White pelicans main diet is fish but occasionally will feed on insects and some vegetation. The diet of the two are a variety of foods including insects, crabs, crayfish, fish, frogs, snails, turtles, snakes, coots, grebes, wading birds, raccoons, otters, deer, and other alligators and crock's. They also feed on dead animals although they are carnivorous, they are occasionally seen uprooting vegetation evidently they do not eat the
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