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Environmental groups rally to keep protections for the Florida scrub jay

Several environmental groups have intervened in a lawsuit that is challenging local protections for the Florida scrub jay.

Talking Animals: Retired FWC wildlife biologist and longtime bird expert offers tutorial on sandhill cranes

Steve Nesbitt recalls his interest in birds was cultivated as a kid by his grandfather, a passionate birder.

Talking Animals: local organization rescues and rehabilitates birds of prey, preparing for its wonders of wildlife festival

Nancy Murrah--President of RCTB, describes the preparations required before Hurricane Milton, and how the facility fared through the storm.
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Blue Graffiti. The Bird Way.

Calahan Skogman – Blue Graffiti He is proud to be from a small town in middle-of-nowhere Midwestern America. And he wants you to know why. With his debut novel, Blue Graffiti, Calahan Skogman relishes in...
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Will the Legislature designate the American flamingo as the Florida state bird?

A bill would designate the American flamingo as the Florida state bird in place of the mockingbird, which was approved in 1927.

Tampa Bay shorebirds dealt with record heat this summer

Summer this year was one of the hottest on record in the Tampa Bay Area, and shorebirds in Tampa Bay dealt with the heat.
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A Surprising Debut Novel. The Way Of Birds. Etherial Music

Chuck Collins – Alter To An Erupting Sun Altar to an Erupting Sun is a near-future story of one community facing climate disruption in the critical decade ahead. Rae Kelliher is a veteran environmental activist...

Audubon Florida says the Wilson’s Plover shorebird is ‘threatened’

Audubon Florida wants the state to designate the Wilson’s Plover, a type of coastal wading bird, as a threatened species.

Iconic Florida bird faces extinction – one group is fighting to save it

Listen: Property owners could soon have one additional tool to help save a native Florida bird that’s at risk for extinction. The Florida scrub jay is the only bird endemic to Florida. It means they...

An Organizer Of The Florida Birding and Nature Festival Previews The Oct 15-17 Event

Mary Keith—the field trip coordinator for the Florida Birding and Nature Festival, taking place Oct 15-17, based at the Manatee Viewing Center in Apollo Beach, Florida—recalled in a “Talking Animals” interview first becoming enchanted with...

The Way Of Birds. The Ways Of Prue.

The Bird Way: A New Look At How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent and Think by Jennifer Ackerman “There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” But the bird way is much...
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Sarasota environmentalists oppose waste facility near Celery Fields

On MidPoint we talked about efforts by environmentalists to oppose a waste processing facility on public lands in Sarasota County near land known as the Celery Fields; community activist Adrien Lucas and Luigi Verace with...
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