The Pantanal; Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia is where my swamp is. The aveage temperature of my swamp is 90 degrees. A swamp is either completely or partially wooded with trees and shrubs. Swamp soils are a form of black muck and is generally saturated with some standing water which can be anywhere from 1" to a 1' or more deep. There are many different types of swamps, i.e., Cypress Swamps located in the south and characterized by protruding tree roots and spanish moss; Shrub Swamps located in forested regions and characterized by low-growing thickets of evergreen and deciduous shrubs; Red Maple Swamps located in the Northern United States; Southern Bottomland Hardwood Swamps which are river swamps characterized by forests of gum, oak and baldcypress trees. It has many unique birds like the Swamp Sparrow . They also have strange and unique insects like the Twelve-spotted Skimmer dragon fly. Swamps can have deep mud from 1 foot to 1 inch.