TAYLOR CO. BIRDWATCHING



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Taylor County provides the opportunity to view numerous species in a variety of habitats.   Here are a few suggested birding sites:

 Hickory Mound Impoundment
 
green- and blue-winged teals, northern pintails, buffleheads, hooded and red-breasted mergansers, common goldeneyes, wading birds, along with sightings of bald eagles, ospreys, Mississippi kites and other raptors.

Adams Beach
seaside sparrows, clapper rail and Wilson's plover.

Keaton Beach
 
 a variety of shorebirds in the bay.

Hagen's Cove
(called one of the "premier shorebird locations on Florida's Gulf Coast.")
This recreation area abounds with shorebirds and wading birds year-round, including sandpipers, dunlin, whimbrel, reddish egrets, plovers, marbled godwits and many more of our feathered friends.

Steinhatchee River
  egrets, blue herons, swallow-tailed kites and many more species.

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