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From Mayan mythology, possibly based on a Turkey Vulture, that is not seen as particularly evil but who, nevertheless, set himself up as a false Sun at the dawn of time. The Hero Twins, as told in the Popol Vuh, kill the Bird Deity, freeing the true Sun to rise allowing for the creation of night and day.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Cathartes aura, Fells, Hero Twins, Mayan, Popol Vuh, Principal Bird Deity, Stick Marsh, Turkey Vulture
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A Tricolored Heron comes in for a landing with its image distorted in the Stick Marsh waters.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Egretta tricolor, Fellsmere, Stick Marsh, Tricolored Heron
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A Roseate Spoonbill aloft on a foggy morning at the Stick Marsh.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Fellsmere, Platalea ajaja, Roseate Spoonbill, Stick Marsh
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A Black-necked Stilt at the Stick Marsh.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Black-necked Stilt, Fellsmere, Himantopus mexicanus, Stick Marsh
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A Great Blue Heron in the early morning light at the Stick Marsh.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Ardea herodias, Fellsmere, Great Blue Heron, Stick Marsh
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A short video of the Roseate Spoonbills at the Stick Marsh in Fellsmere, Florida. The birds are on a rookery island in a designated Critical Wildlife Area.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Critical Wildlife Area, Fellsmere, Platalea ajaja, Roseate Spoonbill, Stick Marsh
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A Roseate Spoonbill flying at sunset at the Stick Marsh.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Platalea ajaja, Roseate Spoonbill, Stick Marsh
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An Osprey hovers over the Mosquito Lagoon while hunting for fish in the gray predawn light.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, MINWR, Mosquito Lagoon, Osprey, Pandion haliaetus
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Placid water reflects the image of a Pied-billed Grebe at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, MINWR, Pied-billed Grebe, Podilymbus podiceps
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A preening Turkey Vulture at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. A lesson in cleanliness for us all.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Cathartes aura, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, MINWR, Turkey Vulture
