A guide accompanies visitors on the park’s Cypress Dome Wet Walk. At Shark Valley, I took a rental bike and set off in the direction of an observation tower. The path led across a watery prairie ...

Florida's largest national park is a watery wilderness of incredible birds, subtropical swamps, and, yes, alligators. At Shark Valley, I took a rental bike and set off in the direction of an ...

Before a surveillance flight to count wading birds around water conservation areas south of Palm Beach, ecologist Mark Cook was hoping to see signs that recent rains in South Florida had replenished ...

White ibis, the most prevalent wading bird in South Florida, saw significant nesting declines in 2022 and 2023. Overall nesting efforts for most wading bird species were below the 10-year average, ...

For the last century, flamingos in Florida were more likely to be spotted on T-shirts and cups in a souvenir shop than flapping around in the wild. Then last summer, a flock of the rare and beautiful ...

This story has been updated to include comments from the South Florida Water Management District. Wading birds across the Everglades had a rough couple of years with annual nesting over the last two ...

A tiny sparrow is causing big problems in Florida for local authorities that have struggled to agree on effective conservation tactics. The Cape Sable seaside sparrow is only 5 inches long and endemic ...

Maybe the most endangered bird on the planet is the Cape Sable seaside sparrow in the hand of Stuart Pim, an ornithologist who is studying the birds that number about 2,500 in Everglades National Park ...

Everglades detention facility "Planned in secret, built in secret, and has been operated in secret." Now, a suit challenging its legality has stalled ...