The Wading Willet
Bird watching is never more challenging than when trying to distinguish between the distant, scuttling dots that are wading birds. […]
Royal Tern – The Greatest Fisherman
The warm, talc sands of Florida’s Gulf Coast are a wintering hot spot for thousands of migrant birds, as well […]
American White Ibis
Sitting by the warm azure sea, while on vacation, watching a small flock of American White ibis feeding is what […]
Sharing the beach – Snowy Plover
Over the years I have had the opportunity to be on many beaches, sometimes for swimming and sometimes just for walking […]
How to Swim with a Manatee
Sirenia – mermaids or sirens of the sea. Legend has it that for centuries these exquisite ladies, half woman half fish, […]
The flying fisher – Black Skimmer
Before arriving at my new home city, New York, I had already undertaken some research into the local wildlife that […]
The crab crunching Yellow-crowned Night heron
I have talked in previous articles about the sprawling, tropical wetlands of Florida; North America’s premier habitat for egret, heron and […]
Pink Gold – The Roseate Spoonbill
The sprawling wetlands of Florida form North America’s premier habitat for egret, heron and ibis. Large bodies of shallow and […]
The Skydiving Brown Pelican
Like The Osprey, the Brown pelican was pushed to the verge of extinction by the extensive use of pesticides, which found […]
Gopher Tortoise
The Gopher tortoise gets its name from its ability to dig, and live in large, deep burrows. This ability to […]
Florida Ospreys
The widespread use of DDT based pesticides decimated the osprey population in the US, and globally between 1950 and 1975. […]
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