Phinizy Swamp Nature Park

Phinizy Swamp Nature Park
Phinizy Swamp Floodplain
Location within Georgia
Location	Augusta, Georgia
Coordinates	33°23′25″N 81°57′31″W / 33.3902°N 81.9587°W / 33.3902; -81.9587
Area	1,100 acres (450 ha)
Governing body	Phinizy Center for Water Sciences
phinizycenter.org

Phinizy Swamp Nature Park is a 1,100-acre (450 ha) nature park in Augusta, Georgia. The park contains wetlands and woodlands and has a campus for water research and environmental education, which includes a visitor center. It has many bald cypresses draped in Spanish moss and forests of loblolly trees. Birds commonly found at Phinizy Swamp include: red-shouldered hawks, great blue herons, sora, wood ducks and bald eagles. Sometimes the park yields rarities for Georgia, including black-bellied whistling ducks,^[1] which nested in the park in 2010, and a cave swallow, in 2004.