Having the only trees within an eight-mile radius, Holland Island has
several large heron rookeries. Hundreds of other shorebirds and waterfowl
also nest here each year.
Egrets curlues, oyster catchers, ospreys,
mallards and black ducks, geese, swan,
gulls, terns and now even
bald eagles make their nests the island.
 
Brown pelicans are frequently seen gliding
along the island's shores. Diamondback terrapins lay their eggs on the sand
bars and thousands of fiddler crabs reside in the cord grass.
Some unlikely visitors also come to the island from time to time. Whitetailed
deer sometimes swim across miles of open water to feed there. And migrating songbirds
often stop for a rest in the trees during the spring and autumn.
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