birds

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

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.

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.

Lake Elberta attracts a wealth of birds, from wood storks to migratory ducks and birds. Apalachee Audubon is enhancing this habitat further.

We are one week away from unveiling the WFSU EcoCitizen Project.  Before we do, let’s…

We head to the John S. Phipps Preserve on Alligator Point at the start of fall migration. Guided by Audubon Florida, we spot visiting and local shorebirds.

We watch two snowy plover chicks get banded at Deer Lake. Shorebird banding has uncovered valuable information about species affected by habitat loss.

We head to the “snowy plover factory” on St. Joseph Peninsula. North Florida’s well protected, natural beaches are a haven for threatened shorebird species.

Jim Cox bands a seven day old red cockaded woodpecker and takes a group of FSU Biology students to a fire dependent, old growth longleaf pine forest.

Operation Migration’s Brooke Pennypacker takes us to the whooping crane pen at the St. Marks Refuge. Also, are ultralight guided migrations ending?