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Satellite Telemetry Reveals Habitat Selection And Movement Patterns Of An American Flamingo In Florida Bay, Steven M. Whitfield, Judd M. Patterson, Antonio Pernas, Michelle Davis, Jerome J. Lorenz, Frank N. Ridgley

Florida Field Naturalist

American Flamingos are among the most iconic—and rarest—of Florida’s native birds. Though historical large flocks were decimated by hunting, small groups of flamingos of unknown origin persist in Florida today. Here, we report a satellite telemetry study of an American Flamingo in Florida Bay, Florida, USA, over a 22-month period. The flamingo used an extensive tidal flat at Snake Bight (Everglades National Park) and numerous mangrove-fringed mudflats inside keys within Florida Bay. Movement patterns varied by time of day and time of year and indicated that movements were tracking hydroperiod and prey availability across a landscape mosaic of spatially and …