On a recent morning at Fort De Soto's North Beach, the parking lot looked like a tourist convention, with license plates from a dozen states. A motorized paraglider hovered over the shoreline, the fan ...

From a distance, a spring beach in Florida looks peaceful: rolling waves, bright umbrellas, and long stretches of pale sand. But look closer, and you’ll find a very different story written in tiny ...

Millions of migratory birds are currently flying over Southwest Florida, with peak migration still to come. Weather radar systems are detecting the massive flocks. The peak of the fall migration ...

Who hasn't dreamed of flying like a bird? But do birds actually enjoy flying as much as we imagine? A new study by researchers at Utrecht University shows that galahs, Australian cockatoos, almost ...

When it comes to what birds have and what humans don’t, your mind might first land on the ability to fly. However, birds are also pretty good at navigating from the air… assuming, that is, they know ...

Florida's beaches double as nesting grounds for threatened shorebirds each spring and summer. Species like American Oystercatchers, Least Terns, and Black Skimmers nest directly on sand and rooftops.