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The Skimmers Have Returned to Navarre Bridge

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Linking the mainland of the Florida Panhandle to the barrier island of Navarre Beach, half the bridge structure slopes to the water as sandy edges and sea wall. Cars whiz past the nesting sites, mere feet from where the seabirds incubate their eggs and where their chicks will inevitably explore.

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Shorebird Nesting Season

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The magnificent, adorable, and dangerous breeding season for both shorebirds and seabirds along the Florida Panhandle. It’s during these months when I cringe anytime there’s a dog on the beach (though usually dogs aren’t allowed at all), for fear it might go after a fuzzy chick or adult sitting on eggs.

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Hornbills of Sabah

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One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. Fortunately, Singapore is not Florida, where Mr. DeSantis would probably have the two birds described in a paper culled (though the paper talks about “aberrant” behavior, which is a phrase Mr. DeSantis would probably feel comfortable with).

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The Return of Least Terns to the Gulf Coast

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Unfortunately, their preferred habitat is also preferred by their human counterparts, lost to development or full of sunbathers and swimmers. In Florida, the Least Tern is a state-designated threatened species; the interior populations are federally endangered. It’s mid-April, and soon they will begin laying eggs.

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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The finders of an adult Barred Owl brought to Kathryn Dudeck in Georgia thought he had a wing fracture, so they wrapped the entire bird in the plastic protective wrap used by landscape companies and taped it up. ” “A nestling American Robin in a bucket of water,” wrote Jane Neville, now in Florida. By a lawyer.”

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review

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As a birder, I’ve seen the sounds of guns scare off geese and ducks I was trying to observe in New Jersey waters, and shuddered over the skins of Northern Pintails and American Wigeons seen in boats along Alligator Alley, Florida. I was really taken aback when I saw this. So–not a fan of hunting. Barker and Carrol L.

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