Everglades National Park, Florida
1979
David Alan Harvey
Perched delicately atop a branch, this American white ibis is one of many waterfowl that wade within the wetlands of Everglades National Park. Using its long beak, the ibis trawls for its food, which mainly consists of crawfish and other small crustaceans.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Our National Parks," July 1979, National Geographic magazine)
