Here in Florida anhingas are commonly called “snake birds”. When they are swimming, the head pokes out of the water and looks similar to a snake, so perhaps th

Here in Florida anhingas are commonly called “snake birds”. When they are swimming, the head pokes out of the water and looks similar to a snake, so perhaps that’s how they earned the name. Just about every moving body of water or lake will have several of them on the shoreline stretching their wings to dry.