The Great Egret is a large bird with all-white plumage that can reach one meter in height, weigh up to 2.1 lb and a wingspan of 65 to 85 in. The Great Egret is widely destributed throughout North America and it is ubiquitous across the Sun Belt. The Great Egret feeds in shallow water or drier habitats, feeding mainly on fish, frogs, small mammals, and occasionally small reptiles and insects.

The Black-bellied Whistling-duck is a whistling duck breeds in the southern most part of the United States, it can be found in southeast Texas, and seasonally in southeast Arizona, and Louisiana's Gulf Coast. It is rare to see them in Florida. The Black-bellied Whistling-duck is 19-21 in long, has a long red bill, long pale grey head, longish legs, and mostly grey-brown plumage. Black-bellied Whistling-duck ingest a wide variety of plant material, but also consume anthropods and aquatic invertebrates when available. As the name implies, these are noisy birds with a clear whistling waa-chooo call.

The White Iblis is a species of wading bird in the ibis family. The American White Ibis is a middle-sized bird with an overall white plumage, bright red-orange down-curved bill and long legs, and black wing tips that are usually only visible in flight. Their diet consists primarily of small aquatic prey such as insects and small fish.

The Red-bellied Woodpecker is a medium-sized woodpecker of the Picidae family. It breeds in southern Canada and the northeastern United States, ranging as far south as Florida and as far west as Texas. Red-bellied woodpeckers are noisy birds, and have many vaired calls. Red-bellied woodpeckers are omnivores, eating insects, fruits, nuts and seeds.

The Roseate Spoonbill is a gregarious wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae. The Roseate Spoonbill can be found in South America mostly east of the Andes, and in the coastal regions of the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico and the Gulf Coast of the United States. The Roseate Spoonbill eats crustaceans, aquatic beetles and bugs, frogs, and newts and very small fish bigger waders ignore.

The Red-shouldered Hawk is compact, stocky, and accipiter-like with relatively short, broad wings, all show translucent pale crescent across wingtips. They are usually found near water, hunts mainly mammals, some reptiles and amphibians from perches.

The Black-crowned Night Heron commonly abbreviated to just Night Heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world. These birds stand still at the water's edge and wait to ambush prey, mainly at night or early morning. They primarily eat small fish, crustaceans, frogs, aquatic insects, small mammals and small birds. During the day they rest in trees or brushes.

The American Purple Gallinule is a "swamp hen" in the rail family Rallidae. This medium-sized rail is unmistakable, with its huge yellow feet, purple-blue plumage with a green back, and red and yellow bill. It has a pale blue forehead sheild and white undertail. The diet of the Purple Gallinule is plants, insects, frogs, snails, spiders, earthworms and fish.

The Great Blue Heron is a large wading bird and is common near the shores of open waters and in wetlands. The Great Blue Heron is North America's largest heron, with a head-to-tail length of 36-55 in, a wingspan of 66-79 in, and a weight of 4-8 lbs. Notable features include slaty flight feathers, red-brown thighs, and a paired red-brown and black strip up the flanks, the neck is rusty grey, with black and white streaking down the front; the head is paler, with a nearly white face, and a pair of dark blue plumes running from just above the eye to the back of the head.

The Green Heron is small only measuring 17 in length. Green Heron's habit is small wetlands in low-lying areas. This species tends to be nocturnal rather than diurnal. Green Herons eat small fish, frogs, and arthropods, but may take any invertebrate or vertebrate prey they can catch, including such animals like leeches and mice.

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Markham's Flickr Page. The Bald Eagle is the national bird and symbol of the United States, prefers habitats near seacosts, rivers, large lakes, oceans, and other large bodies of open water with an abundance of Fish. The Bald Eagle's diet is opportunistic and varied, but mostly feeds on fish. Most people know what the bald eagle looks like, but one little known fact is the plumage of an immature Bald Eagle is brown until it reaches sexual maturity.

The Anhinga, sometimes called Snakebird, Darter, American Darter, or Water Turkey, is a water bird of the warmer parts of the Americas. The Anhinga is unable to waterpoof its feathers thus making their feathers to become waterlogged, making the bird barely bouyant. However, this allows it to dive easily and search for underwater prey, such as fish and amphibians. It can stay under water for a significant period.

The Little Blue Heron is unique in having an all-white plumage through the 1st year and a all-dark plumage thereafter. Little Blue Herons are solitary, catch fish in shallow water. The Little Blue Heron's Voice has various hoarse squawks, fairly high raaaaa raaaa; sometimes with trumpeting or squealing quality geep.

The Limpkin is a bird that looks like a large rail, but is skeletally closer to cranes. It is found mostly in the Americas, from Florida to northern Argentina. It feeds on molluscs, with the diet dominated by apple snails of the genus Pomacea. This bird is easier to hear than see. Its common vocalization is a loud wild wail or scream with some rattling quality as "KwEEEeeer or klAAAar."

Florida Redbelly Turtles have a distintive red-tinged plastron (Belly) and two cusps (like teeth) on its upper beak. The Florida Redbelly is closely related to the Peninsula cooter (Pseudemys floridana). The Florida Redbelly is mainly herbivorous, and can be found in nearly any type of aquatic habitat.

The American Alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. The American Alligator has a large, slightly rounded body, with thick limbs, a broad head and a very powerful tail. Alligators eat fish, birds, turtles, snakes, mammals, and amphibians.

The Common Moorhen is a bird in the Rallidae Family. It lives around well-vegetated marshes, ponds, canals and other wetlands. The species is not found in the polar regions, or many tropical rainforests. This species consumes a wide variety of vegetian and small aquatic creatures. This bird to me sounds like a chicken that is being squeezed when in chirps.