Tag: everglades

Tricolored Heron stands in shallow, calm water.

Birds

New 2020 Wading Bird Report Shows Mixed Nesting Success in the Greater Everglades Region

November 19, 2021 by Erika Zambello No Comments

Note: Erika works for Audubon Florida. The data are in: the nesting season proved successful for some species of Florida’s wading birds and… less...

Trips

A Single Purple Gallinule

December 3, 2018 by Erika Zambello No Comments

All birders love the Everglades. There are so few places on Earth where one can see thousands and thousands and thousands of wading birds...

News

Pokemon Go Is for the Birds—and Other Avian News

July 13, 2016 by Meredith Mann No Comments

Snail Kites photo by Corey There’s something for everyone in this week’s bird news—gotta get ’em all! First off, does your injured bird need...

Birds, Reptiles

Everglades Long-Legged Birds Feed Their Young To Alligators, Everything is Good.

April 19, 2016 by Greg 1 Comment

You know the famous novel about rabbits, wherein among other things the traveling bunnies find themselves in a warren where everyone is well fed...

Birding

Birding at the Tip of Florida: A Bit of Everything

May 2, 2014 by Carlos No Comments

Caribbean dry forests with trees such as Gumbo Limbo, Pigeon-Plum, and West Indies Mahogany; remote breeding colonies of Sooty Tern, Brown Noddy, and Masked...

Conservation

The Everglade Snail Kite Is Making a Comeback

September 25, 2013 by Alfredo Begazo No Comments

The critically endangered Everglade Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis) is making a comeback aided by an unintended introduction of an exotic snail. Over the last...