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A Relaxing Big Day in Florida

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My husband and I hooked up our boat to the trailer and set off to the Santa Rosa Sound in Florida’s Panhandle around 3 p.m., That my data would be used in a global citizen science event? The post A Relaxing Big Day in Florida appeared first on 10,000 Birds. hitting the water just before 4 p.m.

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New 2020 Wading Bird Report Shows Mixed Nesting Success in the Greater Everglades Region

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Note: Erika works for Audubon Florida. The data are in: the nesting season proved successful for some species of Florida’s wading birds and… less so for others. Wood Storks in particular had a tough year in Southwest Florida; forced to nest late, an early rainy season wiped out many nests.

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Florida, Of Thee I Sing

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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.

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Audubon’s New Report on Climate Change Shows Us How We Can Make a Difference

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” As Communications Director for Audubon Florida, I wanted to both digest their findings and reflect on what their conclusions mean not only as a birder, but as an environmentalist as well. Many datasets were compiled directly from citizen science efforts, including Christmas bird counts! Photo by Mac Stone.

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My Great Backyard Bird County on the Florida Panhandle

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There is no doubt in my mind that the annual Great Backyard Bird Coun t (GBBC) is the most impressive citizen science endeavor in the world. Run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Audubon, and Canada’s Bird Studies, the GBBC rallies global birders to go out and bird, submitting checklists of their sightings.

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Florida’s Top Annual Pelagic Trips

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The period between May and September offer the best potential for an assortment of pelagic species (species which live most of their lives far from land) off the Atlantic coast of Florida. Cory’s Shearwater is regular in Florida’s pelagic waters. Birding Florida pelagic petrel tropicbird'

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Good news for the Wood Stork

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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. Historically, the Florida Everglades and the Big Cypress ecosystems supported large breeding colonies. Photo: U.S.