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Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park
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on
Key Biscayne
near
Key Biscayne
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FL
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Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Recreation Area occupies approximately the southern third of the island of Key Biscayne, at coordinates 25°40′25″N 80°09′34″W. The park includes the Cape Florida Light, the oldest standing structure in Greater Miami. In 2005 the park was ranked as having the 8th best beach in the country, and in 2013 Forbes ranked it at 7th. The park is named in honor of Bill Baggs, editor of The Miami News from 1957 until his death in 1969. He worked to protect the land from development, to preserve some of the key in its natural state, and was also a civil rights activist. In 2004 a large historical marker was erected at the site to mark it as part of the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Trail, as hundreds of Black Seminoles, many fugitive slaves, escaped…
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Seagrape
Coccoloba uvifera (species)
12
Observations
JAN - DEC
Romerillo
Bidens alba (species)
6
Observations
JAN - DEC
Papaya
Carica papaya (species),
“Papaya Tree”
6
Observations
JAN - DEC
Florida Swampprivet
Forestiera segregata (species)
5
Observations
JAN - DEC
Cabbage Palmetto
Sabal palmetto (species),
“Cabbage-Palm”, “Palmetto”, “Blue Palmetto”, “Carolina Palmetto”, “Common Palmetto”, “Swamp Cabbage”, “Sabal Palm”
5
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JAN - DEC
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Ctenosaura similis
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“Black Iguana”, “Black Spiny-Tailed Iguana”, “Common Spiny-Tailed Iguana”
22
Observations
JAN - DEC
Brown Anole
Anolis sagrei (species)
21
Observations
JAN - DEC
Green Iguana
Iguana iguana (species),
“Iguana Mamalona”
8
Observations
JAN - DEC
Bark Anole
Anolis distichus (species)
4
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Procyon lotor (species),
“Common Raccoon”, “Northern Raccoon”
4
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JAN - DEC
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JAN - DEC
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Setophaga palmarum (species)
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JAN - DEC
Gray Catbird
Dumetella carolinensis (species),
“Grey Catbird”
2,409
Observations
JAN - DEC
Common Ground Dove
Columbina passerina (species)
2,338
Observations
JAN - DEC
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
Polioptila caerulea (species),
“Blue-Grey Gnatcatcher”
2,334
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Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park
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