News

Birds & Blooms on MSN2d
How to Identify a Snowy Egret
Watch for these elegant birds along coastlines and in swamps. Plus, learn why the snowy egret is a meaningful conservation ...
Taken at the beach on Marco Island with a Canon DSLR camera. The photographer calls this photo “Hooty McGrumpypants.” It’s a ...
Sometimes the magic of sunrise isn’t in the sun itself, but in the way its light reflects and dances across the world around it. That glowing background? Its sunrise reflected on moving water, shot in ...
A large flock of thirty or more “peeps,” which is an all purpose term for small brown shorebirds, is flying close to shore.
When Key West was organizing and systems were being put into place, the town council made a declaration that appeared in the ...
A Colorado man on his honeymoon was killed by lightning while in ankle-deep water at a Florida beach, despite the storm being miles away in what officials called extremely rare.
Coastlines are dynamic areas, and in 2023 we saw firsthand how changing shorelines are impacting some of Florida’s most vulnerable birds, from the diminutive Snowy Plovers to the theatrical Reddish ...
It's the smallest egret in Florida The Sunshine State also hosts great egrets, snowy egrets and reddish egrets, but at less than a pound, the cattle egret is the littlest.
Florida’s civic fathers agreed that drainage had been overdone, nature’s balance upset. They 1) named a permanent protective committee to look after Florida’s wilderness in future, 2) prayed ...
Florida Department of Transportation crews are working hard to clear snowy roads in North Florida, reopening I-10 for drivers.
Like his counterparts in Burleson, Lirette wants Fort Worth residents to report cattle egret sightings, as well as sightings of yellow-crowned herons, snowy egrets, little blue herons and great ...