Sure, Gatorland has gators. It also has a large population of wading birds. They have an extraordinary estuary towards the back of the park, complete with an observation tower. For photographers, they have a package that can get you back there year round both before and after sunset. During the day that I was there, I saw a plethora of birds: Great Herons, Snowy Egrets, Blue Herons, Storks, Peacocks, and White Ibises. For a lot of these birds you need to photograph them at dawn or dusk to get the best results because the Snowy Egrets and Great Herons are white, which will result in horrible overexposures. If I still resided in orlando, I would definitely have this photographer's pass, and I wouldn't go with people who were not photographers so I could set up my tripod and snap away throughout dusk. The opportunities for great shots of these birds are astounding, the place is just full of the birds.
If you go, I would recommend medium-long lenses (300mm is as long as I would imagine you would need), a polarizing filter, a ND grad filter (if you like to shoot at the birds eye level and want the sky behind them) and a flash. I personally had to make do with my 100mm Tokina Macro and the 55-200 VR lens with a polarizing filter for the whole day as I had various family and friends with me which limited the amount of time I could stop for any picture (non-photographers in the group tend to get impatient after stopping for a minute, and I try to be considerate). I personally feel a 70-200 VR and/or a 70-300 VR would be near ideal lenses for this park, with their fast focus you could catch feeding behaviors in focus much more readily.
