{"id":3091,"date":"2020-10-27T16:51:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T20:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flgcc.com\/?p=3091"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:56:34","slug":"snail-kites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/27\/snail-kites\/florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Snail Kites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday we endured a 2+ hour ride with hopes of finding some beautiful scissortail flycatchers. But the flycatchers apparently decided to move to a different undisclosed location. So instead of photographing flycatchers, we had the pleasure of watching and capturing some images of 3 snail kites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201026-2-snail-kite-female-searching-for-snails.jpg\" alt=\"Snail Kite Female Searching For Snails\" class=\"wp-image-99280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201026-2-snail-kite-female-searching-for-snails.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201026-2-snail-kite-female-searching-for-snails-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201026-2-snail-kite-female-searching-for-snails-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201026-2-snail-kite-female-searching-for-snails-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201026-2-snail-kite-female-searching-for-snails-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201026-2-snail-kite-female-searching-for-snails-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Female Snail Kite Hovering Over the Water<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>These are amazing birds that glide across shallow waters hunting for huge apple snails. They are about the size of a crow. They are native to central and south America but are only found in Florida in the US. The snail kites in Florida are now listed as endangered because of habitat loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1996\" height=\"1331\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201026-3-snail-kite-female-perched-on-sign.jpg\" alt=\"Snail Kite Female Perched On Sign\" class=\"wp-image-99281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201026-3-snail-kite-female-perched-on-sign.jpg 1996w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201026-3-snail-kite-female-perched-on-sign-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201026-3-snail-kite-female-perched-on-sign-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201026-3-snail-kite-female-perched-on-sign-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201026-3-snail-kite-female-perched-on-sign-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1996px) 100vw, 1996px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Female Snail Kite Sits on Top of a Sign Ready to Eat Her Meal<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>For a larger selection of photos, go to the galleries listed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/gary-walker-photography\/galleries\/nature\/birds\/kites\/\">Kites<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we endured a 2+ hour ride with hopes of finding some beautiful scissortail flycatchers. But the flycatchers apparently decided to move to a different undisclosed location. So instead of photographing flycatchers, we had the pleasure of watching and capturing some images of 3 snail kites. These are amazing birds that glide across shallow waters&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2743],"tags":[2774],"class_list":["post-3091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida","tag-nature"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201026-3-snail-kite-female-returning-with-apple-snail.jpg?ver","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109182,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions\/109182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}