Lion Country Safari has several dedicated wetland areas on property.
There is also a Backyard Habitat in Safari World’s Nature Walk which shows guests how they can provide food, water, and shelter for animals in their own backyard. Bring your binoculars on your visit because you may just see many native species which choose to call Lion Country Safari home, even though they are not in our actual collection.
Some of these are:
Birds:
- purple martins
- brown pelicans
- white pelicans
- common moorhen
- white ibis
- glossy ibis
- roseate spoonbill
- herons
- Great blue
- Little blue
- Tricolor
- anhinga
- cormorant
- red-shoulder hawk
- kestrel
- black vulture
- turkey vulture (has red on its head)
- swallow-tail kite
- bald eagle (rare)
- crested caracara (rare)
- ducks (wood, mallard, blue-winged teals)
- blue jay
- cardinal
- loggerhead shrike
- red-bellied woodpecker
- pileated woodpecker
- ruby-throated hummingbird
Mammals:
- armadillos
- rabbits
- North American river otter
- raccoons
- opossums
- squirrels
Reptiles:
- Basilisk (invasive)
- Brown anole (invasive)
- curly tailed lizard (invasive)
- green anole
- green iguana
- snakes
- black racer
- corn snake
- banded water snake
- snapping turtle
- cooter
- soft-shelled turtle
Butterflies (including Florida’s state butterfly, the zebra longwing)
