For this reason, the Everglades’ alligators are known to be particularly small for their species. The study shows that the bird colonies might provide enough food to offset some of the ...

the fish disperse and most of the birds leave. But a small population of great blue herons, cormorants, anhingas, purple gallinules, limpkins and swallowtail kites live in the Everglades year-round.

EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK ... One of the few natural predators of live lubbers is the shrike, a small bird that can decapitate the grasshoppers with its beak or impale them on thorns or barbed ...

Guy Bradley’s mission to protect Florida’s wading birds put him in the crosshairs of poachers—and left a legacy that endures ...

Small and stocky birds perch, hunched over, on the treetops and branches of Lake Okeechobee on the edge of Florida's swampy ...

Last year’s wet season created good conditions for wading birds to nest now that the dry months are helping keep food concentrated in small pools in the Everglades. Mark Cook South Florida Water ...

The stately, pink birds have been occasional visitors to the Sunshine State in recent decades, usually in small groups ... a wildlife biologist with Everglades National Park, called it a ...

Visitors recommend the tour, describing it as an amazing experience thanks to the small ... Everglades' mangroves. As you paddle your way through the mangrove tunnels, you may spot orchids, birds ...

Janelle Goeke The decline of the small critters that make up the base of the food web for most life in the Everglades, including wading birds, is dramatic enough that Pintar suggests the eel ...

EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK ... One of the few natural predators of live lubbers is the shrike, a small bird that can decapitate the grasshoppers with its beak or impale them on thorns or barbed ...