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Longstreet Highroad Guide to the Florida Keys & Everglades By Rick Ferren

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Bird Adaptations for Feeding

Many of the bird species that inhabit the Ten Thousand Island area have their own unique adaptation that helps them acquire sustenance from the local habitat. These adaptations enable various species to share the same environment without competing directly with each other.

• Bald eagles have broad wings for soaring and flying long distances, and sharp eyes to see their prey from great heights.
• Osprey hunt by diving feet first in the water and grabbing their prey with their sharp talons.
• White ibis and wood storks feed by feel, probing the soft bottom with their beaks.
• Great egrets wade through the shallows using their large beaks to catch frogs, fish, and crabs.
• Black skimmers fly just above the surface catching small fish by actually skimming their large lower beaks through the water.
• Brown pelicans plunge head first into schools of fish, stunning them and then scooping them up.

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Published (print): 1999, Published (Web): January 2003, ISBN: 1-56352-543-7

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