Wildlife
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Hooded Warbler
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Joe Budd has a variety of wildlife indigenous to the flatwoods and
sandy upland areas of panhandle Florida. The slope forests are home
to the rare Apalachicola dusky salamander. Alligators, gopher tortoises,
white-tailed deer, and wild turkey are common. Joe Budd has excellent
habitat for both the federally threatened Eastern indigo snake and the
federally endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, although neither of these
species has been documented on the area. The combination fishing pier/wildlife
observation platform at Lake Talquin, a Great
Florida Birding Trail site, is an excellent spot to observe wading
birds, osprey, and perhaps bald eagles. A variety of warblers-including
the black-and-white warbler, prothonotary warbler, palm warbler, and
Kentucky warbler-may be heard in the pine-oak forests during spring
and fall migration.
