Everglades National Park Photos

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-12 13:06:54

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Inlets in Everglades

Photograph by Otis Imboden

The park’s unique mix of tropical and temperate plants and animals includes more than 700 plant and 300 bird species, as well as the endangered manatee, crocodile, and Florida panther. Alligator poachers have been known to hide in the bends of mangrove trees while on the hunt.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-12 13:07:22

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Egret

Photograph courtesy National Park Service

Egrets, such as this one silhouetted against Florida's setting sun, are part of the unique mix of wildlife that lives among the saw grass and mangroves of Everglades National Park. The park covers just one-fifth of the 'Glades, dubbed the River of Grass by environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-12 13:07:36

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Young Alligators

Photograph by Ron Levine/Getty Images

The diverse life of Everglades National Park, from algae to alligators, depends upon a rhythm of abundance and drought. Watch out for baby alligators—they tend to stay near their very protective mothers for the first year or two of life.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-12 13:08:03

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Florida Bay

Photograph by Michael Melford

Boating in the Florida Bay takes a skilled and steady hand ready to navigate treacherous stretches of mudbanks and sea grass. Also a potential danger: waterspouts, or intense tornadoes of water that shoot out of the water without warning.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-12 13:08:16

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Baby Alligator

Photograph by Jean-Pierre Dodel, submitted to My Shot

A young gator wends through Shark Valley in Everglades National Park. The spot gets its name from the Shark River, where sharks gather at its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-12 13:08:36

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Palmetto Plants

Photograph by Phil Schermeister

Everglades National Park is at the southern tip of the Everglades, a hundred-mile-long (160-kilometer-long) subtropical wilderness of saw-grass prairie, junglelike hammock, and mangrove swamp that originally ran from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-12 13:13:55

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Palmetto Plants

Photograph by Phil Schermeister

Everglades National Park is at the southern tip of the Everglades, a hundred-mile-long (160-kilometer-long) subtropical wilderness of saw-grass prairie, junglelike hammock, and mangrove swamp that originally ran from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-7-12 13:14:15

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Egret and Cypresses

Photograph courtesy National Park Service

In the Everglades, unusual adaptations and delicate balances sustain the park's astonishing variety of animals and plants. Here, a great egret stays close to a cypress stand. The bird waits for prey to get close before snaking its long neck out and snapping it up.

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