American Flamingo – Americana Collection
Bird identification can be confusing. Similar characteristics require a great amount of research for accuracy. However, the American Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber is unique – there are no other known similar species in North America.
American Flamingo – Americana Collection
In North America an American Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber is a rare find in the wild. This visitor to St Marks National Wildlife Refuge on the Florida Gulf Coast is frequently spotted around high tides in the brackish lagoon known as Stoney Bayou Pool 2.
Monarch butterfly – Americana Collection
“A buttefly’s range depends more on the availability of host plants for larvae than on nectar plants for adults, so protecting larval hosts is a higher priority for butterfly conservation than is protecting the nectar plants that appear in many butterfly gardens.”1
Although studies are inconclusive, it is suggested that the Monarch butterflies Danaus plexippus found at St Marks National Wildlife Reserve on the Gulf Coast of Florida are on a migratory path to winter in Mexico.
