Wildlife in North Florida- Critters Big and Small

Meet new WFSU Ecology intern Chloe Thompson! She’s going to be working with Apalachee Audubon to clean up Lake Elberta and help with other projects.

We start our day before sunrise at the Saint Marks National Wildlife Refuge. Here, we spend a misty morning surveying shorebirds with Don Morrow.

A male from the Tallahassee Museum’s 2017 red wolf litter has been paired with a female to breed. It’s one of many new moves for the wolf pack.

We go to Bald Point to talk to Susan Cerulean about her new book, a reflection on her father’s dementia, and on the loss of shorebirds and their habitat.

In the wake of Black Birders Week, Dara Wilson reflects on falling in love with nature in Central America, and her struggles and successes in Tallahassee.

We join The Nature Conservancy as they search for eastern indigo snakes released at the Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve.

We explore what the striped newt has to tell us about drought and groundwater in Tallahassee, and meet some of the amazing animals found in its wetlands.

Beekeepers adopt an American bumblebee nest, raising the rare bees alongside honeybees in a Florida friendly habitat designed to benefit all pollinators.

Beneath scenic Merritt’s Mill Pond in Jackson County, Florida, researchers from Florida A&M University discover a new species of cave crustacean.

A married couple buys the swamp behind their house to manage it as a preserve. Among the ecological treasures here is a wood stork rookery.