Carson Springs Wildlife Foundation

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We are a non profit donation supported organization that cares for exotic animals and does educational conservation tours of rare and endangered species, has rescued animals, and participates in international species survival plans.

Book our big 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION TOURS.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸. Friday and Saturday. Birthday celebrations for Desmond and Kingsley ❤...
05/31/2026

Book our big 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION TOURS.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸. Friday and Saturday. Birthday celebrations for Desmond and Kingsley ❤️🎉

05/29/2026

Meet our newest members Nofey and his girlfriend Nora on our Saturday tour at 10 am. They are very enthusiastic eaters 🥭🍌🍑🍇 Young common brown lemurs.

05/28/2026

Heavenly rainy afternoon while in terrible drought . Desmond and Lucy enjoying their afternoon browse inside .

Low booking alert for this Saturday tour!!! Rain or shine Scarlett will be so excited to see you 💚💚💚 Book online ...
05/28/2026

Low booking alert for this Saturday tour!!! Rain or shine Scarlett will be so excited to see you 💚💚💚 Book online

05/27/2026

You can tell what a bird eats by looking at its face for one second. The bill is the tool. The shape is the job description.

The cardinal's thick conical bill is a seed crusher — built to crack sunflower shells with force. The chickadee's thin pointed bill is a pair of precision tweezers — picking caterpillars and spiders off leaves one at a time. Same feeder. Completely different equipment.

🌿 The nighthawk is the one that stops people. Her mouth opens wider than her head — a scoop that catches moths in mid-flight. She's not pecking. She's flying with her mouth open and filtering the air.

The heron's bill is a dagger. She stands still for twenty minutes, then strikes faster than you can track — spearing fish, frogs, and mice from the shallows. The woodpecker's bill is a chisel, hammering into bark to extract larvae hidden inside.

The crow's bill does everything adequately and nothing perfectly — seeds, fruit, insects, garbage. The generalist tool for the generalist bird.

Eight bill shapes. Eight diets. The bird at the feeder already told you what she eats — you just have to look at the tool she brought 🐾

05/27/2026

Nala ( Bat eared fox ) finally got a friend and is meeting Raider for the first time . Turn on the sound . See them Saturday on tour

05/27/2026

Dozer getting extra mouthy with his feathers this morning 😂😽🪶

Had a great time this weekend hosting the 4H rabbit club! Safe to say Desmond and Lucy got lots of treats.
05/26/2026

Had a great time this weekend hosting the 4H rabbit club! Safe to say Desmond and Lucy got lots of treats.

05/26/2026

Desmond getting his gallop on …. This beautiful summer morning . We love having him here with us.

05/25/2026

This bird can grow wing feathers longer than its own body, creating one of the strangest flight silhouettes in the bird world.

During breeding season, this bird flies low over African grasslands with giant feather streamers trailing behind like ribbons in the air. Even with those dramatic feathers, this bird is still incredibly agile while chasing flying insects at dusk and during the night.

Outside breeding season, those extreme feathers disappear completely, making this bird look far more ordinary than most people would expect. Pennant-winged Nightjar 👍

Address

8528 East County Road 225
Gainesville, FL
32609

Opening Hours

10am - 12pm

Telephone

+13524682827

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