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Ponce de Leon Park

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Description: Small City Park, Beach, and Boat ramp in Punta Gorda near the mouth of the Peace River.

Vegetation Communities: Mangrove swamp, beach, grassy areas, hardwoods, palms.

Location: Punta Gorda, 3 miles from intersection of US41 and Marion Ave, or 5 miles from I-75. Go south on Marion to the end.

Amenities: Bathrooms, Peace River Wildlife Center, children's play area, boat ramp, boat trailer and car parking, boardwalk.

Animal Species: We are still building an inventory, but here is the beginning:

Documented Birds

Brown Pelican	Laughing Gull	Royal Tern	Willet	Anhinga
Foresters Tern	Great Blue Heron	Little Blue Heron	Spotted sandpiper	Cowbird
Snowy Egret	Great Egret	Louisiana Tricolor Heron	Ground dove	Great horned owl
Starling	Turkey vulture	Black Vulture	Red-breasted merganser	Lesser scaup
Belted Kingfisher	Osprey	Fish crow	Roseate spoonbill	Woodstork
Bald eagle	Yellow-crowned night heron	Black-crowned night heron	Red-bellied woodpecker	Piliated woodpecker
Green heron	Boat-tailed grackle	Frigate bird	Sanderling	Red-winged blackbird
Prairie warbler	American kestrel	Palm warbler	Horned grebe	Sandwich tern
Blue-gray gnatcatcher	Tree swallow	Yellow-rumped warbler	Cardinal	White-eyed vireo
Least sandpiper	Red-shouldered hawk	Double-crested cormorant	White ibis	Common loon
Semipalmated plover	Mourning Dove	Ring-billed gull	Hooded merganser	Shrike
Western sandpiper	White pelican	Dickcissel

Documented Mammals:

Raccoon

Cottontail rabbit

Documented Amphibians:

Documented Reptiles:

Black racer

Brown anole

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