Now that the weather is warmer, our researchers here at Gulf Coast Bird Observatory have begun another season of our Beach-nesting Birds monitoring project. Wilson’s Plovers and Least Terns are ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission just launched a new website for the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail.

A disturbing avian mystery is unfolding in a Northern California town where residents have reported birds "exploding," and ...

A well-known rooster named Roger, considered a local fixture in Fort Lauderdale’s Riverside Park neighborhood, is recovering ...

To see how this plays out in the scientific literature, Fischer and their colleagues narrowed their focus to 293 perching birds and their closest relatives that breed in North America, tallying how ...

What were you trying to capture or express? I was there for a story about wading birds and this guy swooped in and made my morning. What type of lens/equipment did you use to get this image?

According to Kimberly Kaufman, a lead organizer of the event and executive director of the Black Swamp Bird Observatory, this timing is no accident. As songbirds and warblers make their long ...

R-Lighthouse Point ― would have dethroned the mockingbird from its perch and designated the American flamingo as our state bird and designated the Florida scrub jay as our state songbird.

Polsky said she believed involving children also would raise awareness about Florida’s birds. In 2008, when 78,000 children took part in a similar survey, they chose the American osprey ...

A northern mockingbird, Florida’s state bird, overlooks sand pine scrubs in Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Hobe Sound on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. The gray and white bird held off challenges for a ...