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Heading Out for the First Day of the Great Backyard Bird Count

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Note: Erika is the Communications Director for Audubon Florida. The aggregated recordings help researchers gain a snapshot of bird populations and their distribution. Spring has already sprung in North Florida. The Great Backyard Bird Count kicked off yesterday, and will continue throughout the weekend before ending on the 15th.

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Participating in My First “Normal” Birdathon

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Note: Erika is the Communications Director for Audubon Florida. A life bird for me, and another species for my Audubon Florida Birdathon checklist. 2021 marked the second year I participated in a Birdathon for Audubon Florida. A flash of orange streaked across my field of vision, landing at the top of a nearby tree.

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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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New England Reptile Distributers just released a video explaining a terrible incident involving the FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). In 2021, Florida banned reticulated pythons, forcing Coffee to find homes for the pythons outside of Florida. He had a total of 120 pythons he needed to rehome.

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Birding Under the Influence: A Book Review

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The first two chapters make clear that although environmental concerns were a factor, his major reason for doing a big year was personal–his work as a postdoc in research neurobiology was at a crisis point, he needed to change research direction or…do something else. This is a smartly written book.

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Whooping Crane Ancestry

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So what’s so special about seeing the resident re-introduced Whooping Cranes in Florida? One of the last remaining Whooping Cranes in the non-migratory Florida flock. Whooping Cranes occurred naturally in the eastern United States until the late 1940s, and there are records of Whooping Cranes in Florida until the 1930s.

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Of Nesting Spoonbills, Nestling Flamingos, Left-the-Nest Shearwaters, and Mystery Gulls

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First off, Audubon of Florida reports that counts indicate more Roseate Spoonbills are nesting in Florida Bay (between the mainland and the Keys) this year than last year, although those numbers are still lower than in the last decade. And they’re making the news, too.

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Returning to Old Haunts

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For three weeks in June, I traveled up and then down the eastern seaboard visiting ecological research sites. From Florida to Maine and back again I toured urban forests, marshes, estuaries, and more, stopping along the way to visit family and friends.

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