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Florida Endangered Species List Is Now Up To 39 Species

Florida Endangered Species List Is Now Up To 39 Species Everglades National Park is home to a number of threatened and endangered plant and animal species. Some of the best…

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Walking through palmetto trees in Charlotte County, Florida.

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Florida Endangered Species List Is Now Up To 39 Species

Everglades National Park is home to a number of threatened and endangered plant and animal species. Some of the best known of these are the Florida Panther, American Crocodile, American Alligator, West Indian Manatee, Wood Stork, and Snail Kite.

Florida now lists 39 species as endangered or threatened.  Most of the species might be found in Everglades National Park.  These species are all listed under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.  These species include 8 plants, 6 invertebrates, 3 fish, 9 reptiles, 10 birds and 3 mammals.

The plants, not pictured here, include Blodgett's silverbush, Pineland sandmat, Garber's sandmat, Cape Sable thoroughwort, Florida prairieclover, Twospike crabgrass, Everglades bully, and the Florida bristle fern.

Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle

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a Kemp's Ridley sea turtle resting on towels after being rescued from the cold waters of Cape Cod, Massachusetts


Hawksbill Sea Turtle

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Hawksbill Turtle - Eretmochelys imbricata floats under water. Maldives Indian Ocean coral reef.


Leatherback Sea Turtle

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Green leather sea turtle gazing sea grass


Eastern Indigo Snake

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Eastern indigo snakes frequent flatwoods, hammocks, dry glades, stream bottoms, cane fields, riparian thickets, and high ground with well-drained, sandy soils.


Gopher Tortoise

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Gopher Tortoise - front view


American Crocodile

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American Crocodile Basking


American Alligator

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This alligator was just hanging out when I came by in a canoe.


West Indian Manatee

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Florida Panther

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Walking through palmetto trees in Charlotte County, Florida.


Florida Bonneted Bat

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common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) a small bat has strayed into the room and climbs on a white curtain, closeup with copy space, selected focus, narrow depth of field


Florida Leafwing Butterfly

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Goatweed Leafwing Butterfly with wings closed. Adults play dead when handled to escape predators.


Ceraunus Blue Butterfly

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A small, blue butterfly in the Rio Grande Valley


Bartram's Scrub Hairstreak Butterfly

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Mallow Scrub-hairstreak Butterfly


Stock Island Tree Snail

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Liguus Tree Snails (Liguus Fasciatus). Photographed by acclaimed wildlife photographer and writer, Dr. William J. Weber.


Miami-Blue Butterfly

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Blue Morpho Butterfly Red Peregrina Flowers Fairchild Garden Coral Gables Florida Also known as Emperor butterfly Morpho peleides


Florida Leafwing Butterfly

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Goatweed Leafwing Butterfly with wings closed. Adults play dead when handled to escape predators.


Largetooth Sawfish

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Largetooth sawfish (Pristis pristis) is considered critically endangered


Smalltooth Sawfish

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Yellow Warbler

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A Yellow Warbler sings its song on a summer morning in South-central, Alaska.


Roseate Tern

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Bird in flight - Roseate Tern


Red-Cockaded Woodpecker

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Near-threatened Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Punta Gorda, Florida.


Wood Stork

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Two Wood Storks in the wild be the water's edge at St. Augustine, Florida


Kirtland's Warbler

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A Kirtland's Warbler singing for a mate in a jack pine during spring bird migration.


Piping Plover

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Piping Plover


Red Knot in Flight

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Red Knot in Flight


Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow

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A Seaside Sparrow perched in the marsh grasses in the early morning sunlight with a smooth green and blue background.


Everglades Snail Kite

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Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis) eating an apple snail - Panama


Nassau Grouper

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Nassau Grouper from side on coral seascape


Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

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