This Endangered Bird Eats WHAT?! Birding Florida for a Snail Kite!

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  • Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
  • We find some awesome snakes and a remarkable bird of prey while herping and birding the wetlands of central Florida. Get ready to meet your new favorite raptor, the endangered snail kite!
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 31

  • @tkreitler
    @tkreitler 3 місяці тому +4

    The Yellow Rat was a beauty. Rat Snakes are so interesting. I would like to see Big Bertha if you cross paths with her again.

  • @listenerofnature7899
    @listenerofnature7899 3 місяці тому +3

    Such a cool video! The snail kite is a bird I’ve wanted to see for a while now. Beautiful yellow rat snake as well!

    • @TheWildReportOfficial
      @TheWildReportOfficial  3 місяці тому +1

      Thank you, would definitely recommend trying to find one in the wild, they are quite spectacular. Also yes, that rat snake was such a nice surprise.

  • @Jseebs2222
    @Jseebs2222 3 місяці тому +3

    Love your videos. Would love to see you do local nc herping… like in the uwharrie or raven rock.

    • @TheWildReportOfficial
      @TheWildReportOfficial  3 місяці тому +3

      Thank you! I definitely don't do enough location features in the NC piedmont, even though that's where I film most of my NC snake video that aren't coastal. I'll have to try and get some videos out about the herps of these locations for ya!

  • @bob-cat
    @bob-cat 3 місяці тому +1

    Cool video! I noticed the Snail Kites that like to hang around people are usually tagged/banded on the legs. And I filmed one eating a fish on the shore when snails were hard to find, but eating it with some difficulty because perhaps of the beak.

    • @TheWildReportOfficial
      @TheWildReportOfficial  3 місяці тому +1

      Thanks! That's neat, I didn't notice any leg bands on the ones that I saw but I also wasn't paying super close attention. Wait that's really cool, is the fish-eating footage up on your channel?

    • @bob-cat
      @bob-cat 3 місяці тому

      @@TheWildReportOfficialactually I've never published the footage. I'll dig it up from 2022 and figure out a way to send it to you.

    • @TheWildReportOfficial
      @TheWildReportOfficial  3 місяці тому +1

      That would be awesome, thanks!@@bob-cat

  • @PWKAVIATION
    @PWKAVIATION 3 місяці тому +1

    If you wanna see snail kites go to Harn’s Marsh in Fort Meyers. I saw a juvenile snail kite as soon as I walked in!

    • @TheWildReportOfficial
      @TheWildReportOfficial  3 місяці тому

      Oh cool, I'll have to check that area out. Thanks for the tip!

    • @PWKAVIATION
      @PWKAVIATION 3 місяці тому

      @@TheWildReportOfficial np!

  • @waltermaples3998
    @waltermaples3998 3 місяці тому +4

    Ben Zino. You know I love your videos and you are here in my State Florida. I Love what you do. I want to support your channel. Where can I send money?

    • @TheWildReportOfficial
      @TheWildReportOfficial  3 місяці тому +4

      Thanks so much, Walter! I really appreciate your willingness to support me in that way, but right now I don't have any kind of crowdsourcing set up because I'm trying to find a way to provide interesting donor perks with the limited amount of time I have. I'll keep you in the loop as I work to find the right platform for that!

    • @waltermaples3998
      @waltermaples3998 3 місяці тому +1

      @@TheWildReportOfficial .Ben Zino .I want to help you. Keep me posted. 👍

    • @TheWildReportOfficial
      @TheWildReportOfficial  3 місяці тому +3

      Will do, your support is so encouraging!@@waltermaples3998

    • @waltermaples3998
      @waltermaples3998 3 місяці тому +2

      @@TheWildReportOfficial Well Yes I will support you Ben. I care about what you do. I have followed you for years.

  • @Isaac-px1jx
    @Isaac-px1jx 3 місяці тому +2

    The sneak peek is rat snake!

  • @smetlogik
    @smetlogik 3 місяці тому +1

    Baby killdeer and a snail kite and a yellow/eastern/yellow ratsnake in one video?!?

    • @TheWildReportOfficial
      @TheWildReportOfficial  3 місяці тому +1

      Well I figured I had to stack this one with cute things and snakes so people would stick around for the snail kite haha

    • @smetlogik
      @smetlogik 3 місяці тому

      @@TheWildReportOfficial Smart strategic move.

  • @nicksykes463
    @nicksykes463 2 місяці тому +1

    hm next episode guess either corn snake or some sort of nerodia

    • @TheWildReportOfficial
      @TheWildReportOfficial  2 місяці тому

      Haha great guess, it's up now if you want to check it out and see if you were right!

    • @nicksykes463
      @nicksykes463 2 місяці тому

      @@TheWildReportOfficial Yeah i just realized when i posted this yesterday that im very behind on videos haha

  • @LifesWildAdventures
    @LifesWildAdventures 3 місяці тому +1

    2:09 they changed the rat snakes again
    Apparently yellow rat snakes are real again. It’s so over man

    • @TheWildReportOfficial
      @TheWildReportOfficial  3 місяці тому

      NO WAY! I've been wanting this for years, now just need to wait a few months for them to change it back 😵‍💫

    • @LifesWildAdventures
      @LifesWildAdventures 3 місяці тому

      @@TheWildReportOfficial black rat snakes still aren’t real pal. You imagined them

    • @TheWildReportOfficial
      @TheWildReportOfficial  3 місяці тому

      Nooo they must be real!@@LifesWildAdventures