Blue Spring State Park

What you might see, by month

Counts of species records within about 1 km of this point, from GBIF.org, filtered to CC0 and CC BY 4.0 licenses only (land animals and birds excluded). These come from survey effort, so more records do not mean more animals. They are not a sighting forecast. 48,605 qualifying records in total. See the records on GBIF.

Most-recorded species here (all months)

1. longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus) (26)
2. blue tilapia (Oreochromis aureus) (14)
3. Peninsula Cooter (Pseudemys peninsularis) (14)
4. Florida gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus) (10)
5. tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) (9)
6. Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) (6)
7. vermiculated sailfin catfish (Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus) (5)
8. Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) (4)
9. Florida Red-bellied Cooter (Pseudemys nelsoni) (4)
10. Piaractus brachypomus (3)
11. Nile mouthbreeder (Oreochromis niloticus) (3)
12. White Catfish (Ameiurus catus) (2)
13. brown hoplo (Hoplosternum littorale) (2)
14. eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) (2)
15. Redear Sunfish (Lepomis microlophus) (2)
16. Blueback Mullet (Mugil curema) (2)
17. Caribbean manatee (Trichechus manatus) (2)
18. Giant applesnail (Pomacea maculata) (2)
19. Seminole crayfish (Procambarus seminolae) (1)
20. blackfin pacu (Colossoma macropomum) (1)

Reef heat stress

Not applicable: this is a freshwater spring. NOAA Coral Reef Watch monitors coral reef sea-surface temperatures.

Conditions links

• NWS forecast for this point (National Weather Service; marine forecast for offshore points)
• Spring flow and water levels: check the park or operator and USGS Water Data for Florida. Rivers in flood can close spring diving.
• Cave and cavern areas need cave training. Never enter an overhead environment without it.

Depths, entry details and mooring info aren't listed yet because we haven't verified them from a citable source.

Data citation

GBIF.org (2026-10-14) GBIF Occurrence Data, queried via the GBIF API: https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?decimalLatitude=28.9381,28.9581&decimalLongitude=-81.35000000000001,-81.33&license=CC0_1_0&license=CC_BY_4_0&taxonKey=44&taxonKey=206&taxonKey=229&taxonKey=136&taxonKey=225&occurrenceStatus=PRESENT&limit=0. Records by license: CC_BY_4_0: 48,503, CC0_1_0: 102. Contributing datasets (top 15):

• EOD – eBird Observation Dataset — doi:10.15468/aomfnb (48,108 records) — GBIF dataset page
• iNaturalist Research-grade Observations — doi:10.15468/ab3s5x (312 records) — GBIF dataset page
• Birda - Global Observation Dataset — doi:10.15468/6kud7x (139 records) — GBIF dataset page
• USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species database — doi:10.15468/ijccz9 (24 records) — GBIF dataset page
• NABU|naturgucker — doi:10.15468/uc1apo (12 records) — GBIF dataset page
• Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Bird Collection — doi:10.15468/exkxdx (3 records) — GBIF dataset page
• Royal Ontario Museum - Ornithology — doi:10.5886/lhh5ro (2 records) — GBIF dataset page
• Vertebrate Zoology Division - Ornithology, Yale Peabody Museum — doi:10.15468/h25uz7 (1 records) — GBIF dataset page
• UCM Bird Collection (Arctos) — doi:10.15468/ajtd6v (1 records) — GBIF dataset page
• NCSM Herpetology Collection — doi:10.36102/dwc.3 (1 records) — GBIF dataset page
• Native and non-native records of the invasive freshwater apple snail Pomacea maculata Perry, 1810 — doi:10.15468/sgcyxg (1 records) — GBIF dataset page
• Borror Lab of Bioacoustics (BLB), Ohio State University — doi:10.15468/wyz5x9 (1 records) — GBIF dataset page