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Photographer: J. Makali Bruton
Taken: December 25, 2017
Caption: This additional marker, "Wildlife at the Falls", is to the right of the featured marker
Additional Description: Wildlife at the Falls
Even amidst this industrial city, wildlife thrives at the falls of the Chattahoochee. The double crested cormorant frequently perches on these river rocks to dry its wings. Its numbers have increased because of river impoundment. The great blue heron, a large solitary, wading bird with a long neck and spear-like bill, stalks fish in the shallow water.

Shoal bass still inhabit free-flowing stretches of the Chattahoochee below the dams. Yellowbelly sliders and other aquatic turtles are conspicuous inhabitants of the river here at the fall line and are often seen basking on rocks and snags.

Fisherman in this stretch of the river still find channel catfish, largemouth bass, sunfish and crappie. Ring billed gulls and other birds, especially water fowl, use the river as a migratory route.

Captions:
Great Blue Heron

Yellowbelly Slider Turtle

Double Crested Cormorant drying its wings

Channel Catfish
Submitted: January 4, 2018, by J. Makali Bruton of Accra, Ghana.
Database Locator Identification Number: p411064
File Size: 2.731 Megabytes

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