Pelican Island Audubon Society
Serving Indian River County since 1964
Category: Bird Photo of the Month
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June 2015 Bird Photo of the Month
Have you noticed a solitary brown bird in a nearby pond, floating like a small duck on the surface? Suddenly it disappears, often for a minute, then pops up elsewhere. It is a Pied-billed Grebe, not a duck. No other family of birds can rotate their lobed (not duck like) feet 90° making them especially…
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May 2015 Bird Photo of the Month
Doesn’t she look like a character? Is she giving him a piece of her mind or drawing him in? Early in the breeding season, Anhingas begin a complex courtship by soaring on thermals, circling with vultures, hawks, and eagles 1000s of feet into the sky. Wings outstretched, pointed bill, thin tail, like a black flying…
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April 2015 Bird Photo of the Month
Florida is one of the few states where birders can view unusual seabirds such as this Brown Noddy that occurs worldwide in tropical oceans, including the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. In the continental U.S. Noddies nest on just one island in the Dry Tortugas National Park. Photographer Dawn Curie visited there and found…
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March 2015 Bird Photo of the Month
Have you seen this bird? Most people haven’t because it is so secretive, hiding and blending in with grasses along water’s edge. Yet it is a “local Florida bird,” a widespread year-round resident, that nests in freshwater marshes in central and southern Florida, especially the St. Johns River and the Everglades. Taken at the Viera…