Anhinga, immature
Anhinga anhinga
Anhinga · Everglades National Park · 6 February 2026
A young Anhinga in the Everglades in February, told by the pale tan head, neck and breast. Anhingas are birds of the warm, slow fresh water of the American South and the tropics, and the Everglades sloughs breed them in numbers; the young stay near the colony for months.
An adult female keeps a similar buff neck, but an adult male's is glossy black, so a juvenile of either sex starts out looking like its mother. The silver barring coming through on the folded wing is the adult's ornamental plumage arriving. Anhingas swim with the body submerged and only the neck showing, which is how they got the name snakebird, and they spear fish rather than grab them.
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