Never drain the swamp

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Because real swamps are special and beautiful places.

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Bayou DeSiard, Louisiana, USA
Photo by Bill Knaps

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Black-crowned night heron, Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Florida, USA
Photo by Adam Jones

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Tillandsia (air plants), Corkscrew Swamp, Florida, USA
Photo by Earl Orf
More plants, from swamps and elsewhere, at Earl Orf Photography

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Lily pads, Turkey Swamp Park, Freehold, New Jersey, USA
Photo by Darrin Morrissey

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Nine-banded armadillo, Phinizy Swamp Nature Park, Augusta, Georgia, USA
Froggyz Adventures (more of the plants and animals at Phinizy Swamp)

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Wood ducks, South Carolina, USA
Photo by Phil Lanoue
Caught Canoodling!! (all of the nine-pic sequence, with bonus gator)

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Nutria and baby, Aransas Wildlife Refuge, Texas, USA
Photo by Fain Zimmerman

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Florida panther, Weed's Everglades Wildlife Sanctuary, Florida, USA
Photo from Pronghorn Wildlife Photography, Barbara Magnuson & Larry Kimball

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Crab spider on a sunflower, Green Swamp Preserve, North Carolina, USA
Photo by Skip Pudney

10.


Swamp rabbit, Boy Scout Woods Sanctuary, Texas, USA
Photo by Lindell Dillon

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Snail kite, Everglades National Park, Florida, USA
Photo by Mac Stone

The photo is on the cover of Stone’s 2014 book, Everglades: America’s Wetland.

How Stone got this pic (and others) of the kite. It wasn’t easy.

Click to view

Video is two minutes and fifty-nine seconds

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Green tree frogs, Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana, USA
Photo by Brad M. Glorioso
Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (more pics of these frogs, including tadpoles)

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American alligator with two of her hatchlings, Brazos Bend State Park, Texas, USA
Photo by Nuwan Samaranayake

14.


Great egret, Brazos Bend State Park, Texas, USA
Photo by Timothy LaBranche

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Venus flytraps in bloom, Green Swamp Preserve, North Carolina, USA
Photo by Skip Pudney
Interview with Skip Pudney, “The Green Swamp…Venus Flytraps,” with more photos

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Click to view

Video is two minutes, fifty-one seconds

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Sundew, Alakai Swamp, Kauai Island, Hawaii, USA
Photo by Mateusz

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Raccoons, Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina, USA
Photo by Chuck Hantis

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Eastern screech owl, Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia, USA
Photo by Graham McGeorge
Owls Perfectly Camouflaged Within Trees by Graham McGeorge (more pics of various owls)

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Black racer snake, Green Swamp Wilderness Preserve, Florida, USA
Photo by Marc Barrison

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Gulf fritillary, Everglades National Park, Florida, USA
Photo from Lars' & Anki's Flickr

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Black bear, Vince Shute Wildlife Sanctuary, Minnesota, USA
Photo by John Pennoyer
Impressions of Nature (more black bear photos)

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Anole lizard in a water lily, Everglades National Park, Florida, USA
Photo by J. Pat Carter

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Halloween pennant dragonfly, Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida, USA
Photo by Alan S. Hochman

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Ferns, Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Florida, USA
Morning at Corkscrew Swamp (more photos)

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Ribbon snake on floating salvinia ferns, Jean Lafitte National Park and Reserve, Louisiana, USA
Photo by Gerald Herbert
The week in wildlife (more nature photos, in swamps and elsewhere)

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Eastern box turtle, Sunken Meadow State Park, Smithtown, New York, USA
Photo by Marcin Stawowczyk

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River otter, Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia, USA
Photo by Glen Dykstra
"Land of Trembling Earth" (Okefenokee, Okefenok) (more photos from the photographer's trip to the swamp)

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American alligator, Bird Rookery Swamp, Florida, USA
Photo by Marc Barrison

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Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida, USA
Photo by Jack Dykinga

Also posted to randompictures, with some also to splodefromcute