Great Blue Heron, Quivira Wildlife Refuge
County: Stafford
Date: October 2009
Photographer: John Charlton/KGS
Place Name: Quivira National Wildlife Refuge
Short description: Great blue heron flying over the Big Salt Marsh at Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in Stafford County. The refuge includes 7,000 acres of wetlands. Annually, thousands of Canada geese, ducks, sandhill cranes, shorebirds, and other migratory birds stop over. The refuge provides critical habitat for the federally listed whopping crane, the state-listed western snowy plover, more than 340 species of birds, and hundreds of species of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and plants.
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