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Peacock Springs
Florida Springsspring State park in Florida, United States
Coordinates 30.12694, -83.13611 (from Wikidata Q7983761, CC0). Wikidata coordinates may mark a reef, park or wreck in general, not a mooring buoy or entry point. · Wikipedia
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. 704 qualifying records in total. See the records on GBIF.
- No qualifying records
- pallid cave crayfish (Procambarus pallidus) (1)
- Florida cave crangonyctid (Crangonyx grandimanus) (19)
- Caecidotea obtusa (1)
- Crangonyx specus (2)
- Common Slider (Trachemys scripta) (3)
- River Cooter (Pseudemys concinna) (1)
- No qualifying records
- No qualifying records
- Florida cave crangonyctid (Crangonyx grandimanus) (3)
- No qualifying records
- No qualifying records
- No qualifying records
- No qualifying records
Most-recorded species here (all months)
- Florida cave crangonyctid (Crangonyx grandimanus) (22)
- Common Slider (Trachemys scripta) (3)
- Crangonyx specus (2)
- Caecidotea obtusa (1)
- pallid cave crayfish (Procambarus pallidus) (1)
- River Cooter (Pseudemys concinna) (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=30.11694,30.136940000000003&decimalLongitude=-83.14611000000001,-83.12611&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: 668, CC0_1_0: 36. Contributing datasets (top 15):
- EOD – eBird Observation Dataset — doi:10.15468/aomfnb (658 records) — GBIF dataset page
- Invertebrate Zoology Division, Yale Peabody Museum — doi:10.15468/0lkr3w (29 records) — GBIF dataset page
- INSDC Sequences — doi:10.15468/sbmztx (5 records) — GBIF dataset page
- International Barcode of Life project (iBOL) — doi:10.15468/inygc6 (4 records) — GBIF dataset page
- LACM Vertebrate Collection — doi:10.15468/77rmwd (4 records) — GBIF dataset page
- iNaturalist Research-grade Observations — doi:10.15468/ab3s5x (2 records) — GBIF dataset page
- Molecular and morphological analyses reveal a new hypogean species of amphipod in the genus Crangonyx Bate, 1859 (Crustacea: Crangonyctidae) within the floridanus species complex, from Suwannee County, Florida — doi:10.15468/x62eur (1 records) — GBIF dataset page
- NMNH Extant Specimen Records (USNM, US) — doi:10.15468/hnhrg3 (1 records) — GBIF dataset page