Florida Science Wildlife 
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2011
Even in the Brazilian Amazon, I’ve never seen this many whistling ducks together–there were sixty at a manmade lake behind the Brevard Community College near Titusville, Florida. I don’t get a lot of life birds in North America any more, but this confiding little gent offered himself up to the list: a Florida Scrub-Jay.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2020
Faithful 10,000 Birds readers will remember Suzie as our wildlife rehabilitation beat writer. Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. And birders!
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10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2014
Fish and Wildlife Service is down-listing the wood stork from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The wood stork was listed as endangered in 1984, because the Florida population was dropping at an approximate rate of 5 percent per year. Wood storks primarily breed in Central and South Florida.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 23, 2019
Birding trips to Florida , New Mexico , and Texas are obvious too. For me, there was the Limpkin in Loxahatchee NWR in Florida, the Atlantic Puffin at Petit Manan NWR in Maine, the Falcated Duck at Colusa NWR in California. Texas and Florida round out the Top 5. Thomas ) was good for 26 lifers.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2022
This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. It is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
While photographing the Brown Bears in the Russian Far East, a friend of mine, Jovan “Lucky” Lakatos, was with Michio Hoshino, Japanese-born nature photographer specialized in Alaskan wildlife and experienced in how to behave facing this apex predator. Florida scrub jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens. Eurasian jay, Garrulus glandarius.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2013
Main characters Samuel, a wildlife photographer grieving his wife’s death, and Thomas, a forest ranger grieving the world’s more general losses, struggle to find the bird and save its last known habitat. Author Drouin is a Florida-based journalist, and I’ve taken the liberty of reading some of his nonfiction as well.
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