Rob Diaz de Villegas

Tall Timbers Research Station studies the family choices of a charismatic cooperative breeding bird– the brown-headed nuthatch.

Tall Timbers scours north Florida marshes for two fire dependent and very secretive bird species: black and yellow rails.

Lake Jackson is a dynamic water body. We track wildlife as seasons change and the lake dries and refills. Will update periodically.

Longleaf pine habitats burn, which releases carbon into the atmosphere. But might this ecosystem actually store carbon?

The University of Miami SUSTAIN Lab combines engineering and ecology as it searches for ways to protect coasts from storm surge.

Our Ecology Producer photographs his backyard ecosystem, witnessing seasons change through his plants and the insects that eat them.

Lake Jackson has some of Leon County’s top birding hot spots. Some of the lake’s most diehard bird watchers show us why.

A year of life and death struggles, mating, caterpillars, and several new pollinator visitors to the yard of WFSU’s Ecology producer.

Tallahassee’s Timberlane Ravine Trail through the seasons- trilliums, funky mushrooms, hearts a bustin’, and the beauty of dead trees.

Witness how zebra longwing caterpillars go crazy for passionvine, and how, as butterflies, go crazy for each other when it’s time to mate.