What Is It?
Published April 29, 2007
There has been numerous sightings of this creature on and around the golf course. Can you guess what it might be?
Diet: prefer fish swimming close to the water's surface, small mammals, waterfowl, wading birds.
This creature can actually swim! They use an overhand movement of the wings that is very much like the butterfly stroke.
Habitat: live and nest near coastlines, rivers, lakes, wet prairies, and coastal pine lands in North America from Alaska and Canada south into Florida and Baja, California.
These creatures may use the same nest year after year, adding more twigs and branches each time. One nest was found that had been used for 34 years and weighed over two tons!
Have the answer? Let me know...Gordon
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