credit: Betsy McCully. Great Egret (Ardea alba), Florida, 2015. The first National Wildlife Refuge, Pelican Island, was established in Florida by Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 to protect egrets and other plumed birds.
Great Egret
credit: Betsy McCully. Great Egret (Ardea alba), Florida, 2015. The first National Wildlife Refuge, Pelican Island, was established in Florida by Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 to protect egrets and other plumed birds.