Ingo Arndt / Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) trees in swamp with epiphytes and ferns, Everglades National Park, Florida

Ingo Arndt / Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) trees in swamp with epiphytes and ferns, Everglades National Park, Florida

Tim Fitzharris / Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) trees in wetland, White River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas

Tim Fitzharris / Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) trees in wetland, White River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas

Pete Oxford / Bald cypress trees (Taxodium distichum) The Orianne Indigo Snake Preserve, Telfair County, Georgia, USA

Tim Fitzharris / Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) grove in freshwater swamp at dawn, Lake Fausse Pointe, Louisiana

Tim Fitzharris / Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) swamp, Sam Houston Jones State Park, Louisiana

Tim Fitzharris / Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) at upper Blue Basin, this is a major migratory bird stopover for the Mississippi Flyway, Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge, Tennessee

Lynn M. Stone / Roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) perched on Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) tree branch. Big Cypress Swamp National Preserve, Florida, USA.

Lynn M. Stone / Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) trees, predominantly White ibis (Eudocimus albus) perching in branches and Snowy egret (Egretta thula) in flight. Everglades National Park, Florida, USA. April 2018.

Lynn M. Stone / Roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) perched in Bald cypress tree (Taxodium distichum) with flowering Cardinal air plant (Tillandsia fasciculata). Big Cypress Swamp National Preserve, Florida, USA.

Lynn M. Stone / Roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) perched on Bald cypress tree (Taxodium distichum) branch. Big Cypress Swamp National Preserve, Florida, USA.