We start our day before sunrise at the Saint Marks National Wildlife Refuge. Here, we spend a misty morning surveying shorebirds with Don Morrow.
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Susan Cerulean’s New Book: I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird
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.
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Shorebird Watching at Alligator Point’s Phipps Preserve
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.
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Banding Snowy Plover Chicks at Deer Lake State Park
We watch two snowy plover chicks get banded at Deer Lake. Shorebird banding has uncovered valuable information about species affected by habitat loss.
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Wildlife in North Florida- Critters Big and Small
The Snowy Plover Factory | Visiting Shorebirds on St. Joseph Peninsula
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.
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Cooking grouper with Julia Childs, summer adventures along waterways, volunteer opportunities with shorebirds and oysters, and more in this weeks Coastal Roundup.