St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge

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

Tips for planting Florida native milkweed species. Also, we trek to where these plants grow in the wild with the St. Marks Monarch-Milkweed Initiative.

Archeologists search for a village they think should be there near Spring Creek in the St. Marks Refuge. We look at the techniques they use to find it.

Byrd Hammock is near Wakulla Beach in the St. Marks Refuge. Here, archeologists are solving the mystery of the Swift Creek and Weeden Island people.

Every fall, volunteers tag monarch butterflies at the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge. Their work adds to our knowledge of monarch migration.

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

Expedition Florida 500 is stand up paddleboarding around the state of Florida to raise awareness of conservation issues and to explore the history of the state’s waterways. EcoAdventure North Florida joined him for a day at the Saint Marks National Wildlife Refuge.

Cooking grouper with Julia Childs, summer adventures along waterways, volunteer opportunities with shorebirds and oysters, and more in this weeks Coastal Roundup.

People no longer go bird watching, they go wildlife watching. At the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, the birds are still spectacular, but you can’t ignore deer, snakes, cute little cotton rats, and tons of alligators.

We review a free app that lets you identify birds, butterflies, and wildflowers along the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife trail. Our in depth look offer tips and tricks to help you figure out what birds you’re seeing on the trails, along the coast, and in your backyard.