{"id":3442,"date":"2017-04-06T04:06:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T11:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2017-04-09T14:22:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T21:22:59","slug":"water-turkey-female-anhingidae-anhinga-anhinga-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/2017\/04\/06\/water-turkey-female-anhingidae-anhinga-anhinga-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Turkey | FL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/about-david-allio\/about-david-allio\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/photography\/2017\/anhingidae-anhinga-anhinga-2017fl91825.jpg\" title=\"Water Turkey Anhingidae Anhinga anhinga St Marks National Wildlife Refuge Walkulla County Florida\" alt=\"Water Turkey Anhingidae Anhinga anhinga St Marks National Wildlife Refuge Walkulla County Florida\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Anhinga<\/em> <small>&#8211; St Marks National Wildlife Refuge<\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<p>How do you begin the process of identifying an unrecognized bird?<\/p>\n<p>As someone more familiar with birds native to the Appalachian Mountains, fowl of the Florida Gulf Coast are sometimes difficult to correlate.  Initally, I described this bird from St Marks National Wildlife Refuge as appearing to be a wild turkey with a brown, furry egret-like neck.  As it happens, my crude description was fairly close.<\/p>\n<p>According to an elaborately detailed note from Dr. Jerome Jackson, Professor Emeritus, Department of Marine and Ecological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, &#34;This is a beautiful female Anhinga in her breeding plumage.  It&#8217;s also known as a <em>Water Turkey<\/em> because of the band on the end of its tail (like a turkey&#8217;s tail); and as &#8216;snake bird&#8217; because Anhingas swim underwater to spear fish and often only stick their head and long neck above the surface &#8211; appearing to some like a snake.&#34;<\/p>\n<p>Anhinga <em>Anhinga anhinga<\/em> are of the Anhingidae family.  That was the missing link in my search for identification.  With appreciation to Dr. Jackson and five other confirming colleagues there is now a new listing in my visual index of ornithology.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<hr size=1 width=69%><\/center><small>camera: <b>Nikon D60<\/b> | lens: <b>AF Nikkor VR 400mm f\/2.8G IF-ED<\/b><br \/>focal length: 400mm | exposure: f\/5.6 &#8211; 1\/1250th second &#8211; ISO 400<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water Turkey Anhingidae Anhinga anhinga St Marks National Wildlife Refuge Walkulla County Florida photography by David Allio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1047,1046,233,433,1049],"tags":[772,909,940,386,771],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anhinga-anhinga","category-anhingidae","category-ornithology-bird","category-fl-florida","category-st-marks-national-wildlife-refuge","tag-bird-photography","tag-photography-exposure-data","tag-fl-florida","tag-nikon-usa","tag-wildlife-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p21yji-Tw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3454,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}