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Avery Island Wildlife

Pam and Edmund McIlhenny's wildlife photos of Avery Island, Louisiana, which is one of five salt domes rising above the flat Louisiana coastal wetlands. This gallery includes photographs of the following species: American Alligator, Anhinga, Armadillo, Bobcat,Cormorant, Deer, Hawk, Great Blue Heron, Green Heron, Little Blue Heron, Tricolored Heron, White Ibis, White-faced Ibis, Glossy Ibis,Lesser Scaup diving duck, Lamb,Common Loon, Otter, Barred Owl, American White Pelican, Brown Pelican, Racoon, Robin, Roseate Spoonbill, Eastern Wild Turkey, and Turkey Vulture.

Avery Island is also the home of TABASCO Brand Pepper Sauce, which Edmund McIlhenny's great grandfather invented in 1868. Because the company remains family owned, with its headquarters still at Avery Island, we have had the opportunity over the years to photograph wildlife, as well as some of the most beautiful parts of the Island. We hope you enjoy them. More information on Avery Island is available at http://www.TABASCO.com, and http://www.Twitter.com/A_Island.
Warmest regards, Pam and Edmund McIlhenny
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    The Black-necked Stilt has the second longest legs in proportion to its body of any bird, exceeded only by the Flamingo. Black-necked Stilts prefer shallow wetlands, especially human-managed ones like sewage ponds, as they have some vegetation, but are not overgrown. They wade in the shallow water and eat small crustaceans and fish. Source: Cornell Lab of Orinthology's All About Birds.
    The Eastern Wild Turkey is the same species the Puritans encountered back in the seventeenth century. Turkeys have very sharp eyesight and hearing, can RUN 15 to 18 miles per hour, and can fly up to 55 miles per hour, according to the Indiana Division of Fish and Wildlife. While this gobbler's head would normally be all red, it turned to white and blue during the breeding season.