10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2012
The southeast tip of the Florida peninsula is not well endowed with a wide variety of sparrows in winter like the rest of the southeastern United States. This is not the case in southern Florida, where a typical outing to such popular parks as A.D. Like Savannah Sparrow, the type specimen of Swamp Sparrow was collected in Georgia.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 16, 2013
In 2012, for the third straight year, wading birds in south Florida had poor nesting success. Most hard-hit were federally endangered Wood Storks , which saw all 820 nests fail or be abandoned. Only 26,395 nests were started in 2012, a 39 percent decline compared to the decadal average.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2015
Birding in Florida is unique in that so much of that state’s plenty is evident even to the casual observer. I’ve spent the last week in southwest Florida. It’s a family vacation, sure, but there’s always time for birding and in Florida, the birding often finds you.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
Over the last weekend, I was at Lake Kissimmee in Florida, observing Snail Kites at an area kites were not present or rare just a few years ago. The threat of extinction of such iconic Florida bird prompted State and Federal agencies to find solutions to stop and reverse the declining trend. Kites now nest there and are fairly common.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 26, 2018
We did however gain an extra night, at our expense in Miami, Florida, all of which was in the dark, so I could not even run out and put a couple of birds on a Florida State List. Our visit to the abandoned resort had a bunch of nice birds, but the highlight was a male Western Spindalis.
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
Cattle Egret was first recorded in Florida in 1941 (although originally these were dismissed as escapes), and officially bred in Florida in 1953. It arrived near the border of Guiana and Suriname in 1877, though it wasn’t until the 1930′s before this species became really established in the new world.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
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