Greg Shchepanek

  Featuring Ramsar Sites Mary's Point & Shepody Bay A Sandy Salt Marsh . Canada's 3rd Ramsar site designated— Mary's Point , New Brunswick, Canada. Ramsar site no. 236 . Shepody Bay International Shorebird Reserve . Canada's first Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve — Shepody Bay National Wildlife Area , Mary's Point , New Brunswick, Canada. Ramsar site no. 236. Shepody Bay is a tidal embayment of saltmarsh, eroding coastline with sand & gravel beaches & extensive intertidal mudflats. The mudflats support internationally important numbers of the crustacean Corophium volutator, the principle food source for millions of fall migrating shorebirds. 400,000 Calidris pusilla may be present at one time in late summer. More than two million pass through in August, as do large numbers of other shorebirds. A shorebird research station is available. Flower Pot Rocks . The Rocks Provincial Park, Shepody Bay National Wildlife Area , New Brunswick, Canada. Ramsar s...

  Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge Spanish Moss ( Tillandsia usneoides ) Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge , Charlton, Georgia, United States of America. Ramsar site no. 350. The fabled & legendary swamp that is Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Wow ! Did I ever fall in love with this big & so very beautiful swamp of the Southern USA . The Flora & Fauna of this place just blew my little mind to bits & made a horrible mess but it could not be circumvented because this place is just ... AWESOME !! I imagined that this is home to the swamp creatures that I fell in love with as a child. Both Man-Thing & Swamp Thing could be envisioned walking these blackwaters . Okefenokee Swamp is a shallow, 438,000-acre (177,000 ha), peat -filled wetland straddling the Georgia – Florida line in the United States of America . A majority of the swamp is protected by the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and the Okefenokee Wilderness . The Okefenokee Sw...

The Beauty of the Florida Everglades Complex Everglades I : Northern Section American Alligator  ( Alligator mississippiensis ) Everglades National Park • Ramsar site no. 374. Conservation Status: Threatened due to similarity of appearance (T (S/A)) (T (S/A)) in United States (USFWS). Peninsular Cooter  ( Pseudemys peninsularis ) Everglades National Park • Ramsar site no. 374. Endemic in Florida, US: native and occurs nowhere else. Anhinga  ( Anhinga anhinga ) Everglades National Park • Ramsar site no. 374.   Halloween Pennant Dragonfly  ( Celithemis eponina ) Everglades National Park, Florida, United States • Ramsar site no. 374. Florida Softshell Turtle  ( Apalone ferox )  Everglades National Park  • Ramsar site. no. 374.Endemic in United States: native   and occurs nowhere else. The Florida Everglades Compex , National Park & Ramsar Site is a most beautiful of ecosystems to be found in North America . What you will find here is m...

  Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary Brown Anole  ( Anolis sagrei ) Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary , Florida, United States of America. Ramsar site no. 1888. Wow ! Corkscrew the place I call the living museum . I had the greatest time exploring this wild jungle of swamp down in Florida. I will never forget this awesome adventure in this one of my favourite Ramsar Sites that I have visited.  Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is a definitive Wetland of International Importance & you can see from my photos a very rich place for Flora & Fauna . The Ramsar Convention was so very wise to make this beautiful swamp a special protected place & as well it is the home to the  National Audubon Society . American Green Tree Frog  ( Hyla cinerea )  Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary , Florida, United States of America. Ramsar site no. 1888.  American Alligators American Alligators ( Alligator mississippiensis )  Audubon's Corkscre...

 Can you Hear me Now ! My first photo to go viral was this  Black-tailed Jackrabbit ( Lepus californicus ) Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada, United States. Ramsar site no. 347. This was my most favourite Ramsar Convention Wetland of International Importance ... and it was so close to Vegas Baby !!