So many birds, so little time: Our expert points to best places to watch, photograph birds

The News-Press and Naples Daily News award-winning photographer shares his favorite locations in SWFL to photograph birds.
Miami Herald

Wading Birds are a symbol of Florida. Here’s why they’re also so important to the state

Low water levels in 2004 drew wading birds like this great blue heron to a conservation area west of Broward County. A similar dry season following 2016’s record rain helped make 2017 a successful ...
The News-Press

Wading birds not doing well in south Florida, behind historic numbers in Everglades system

White ibis, the most prevalent wading bird in South Florida, saw significant nesting declines in 2022 and 2023. Overall nesting efforts for most wading bird species were below the 10-year average, ...
The Weather Channel on MSN

'It's Been 125 Years And They're Back': Inside Florida's Fight To Repopulate Flamingos

Once wiped out by hunters and thought to be gone for good, Florida’s iconic flamingos are making a comeback, carried home by hurricane winds and a slow but steady healing of the Everglades.
WLRN

A warning for the Everglades: South Florida had fewer nesting wading birds in the last two years

This story has been updated to include comments from the South Florida Water Management District. Wading birds across the Everglades had a rough couple of years with annual nesting over the last two ...
SFGate

Flamingos are making a home in Florida again after 100 years – an ecologist explains why they may be returning for good

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jerome Lorenz, Florida International University (THE CONVERSATION) Hurricane Idalia ...
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Flamingos are nesting in Florida again after 100 years. Ecologists think they may be returning for good

Hurricane Idalia blew a flamboyance, or flock, of 300-400 flamingos that was likely migrating between the Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba off course in August 2023 and unceremoniously deposited the birds ...
WLRN

Flamingos are making a home in Florida again after 100 years – an ecologist explains why

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Jerome Lorenz is a Biology Researcher at Florida ...