American Alligator, Pickney Island National Wildlife Refuge, USA Stock Image

American Alligator, Leucophaeus atricilla. Pickney Island National Wildlife Refuge, Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA. A 4,000 acre wildlife and nature preserve on the Intracoastal waterway. The salt marsh, tidal creeks, salt pannes, ponds, Saw Palmetto, and forests are habitat for waterfowl, shorebirds, wading birds, raptors, neo-tropical migrants, white-tailed deer and American alligators, with large concentrations of white ibis, herons, and egrets.