The Cape Sable seaside sparrow isn't nicknamed the “Goldilocks bird” for nothing: In order for this little sparrow to survive, its habitat conditions have to be just right. Though the bird has evolved ...

“For 20 years the Army Corps of Engineers has been flooding Everglades National Park in the wrong place and at the wrong time, destroying the Cape Sable seaside sparrow and precious park prairies in ...

Deep in the Everglades, there is one other creature seen so seldom by human eyeballs it could easily join with these mythical mysteries — the Cape Sable seaside sparrow. The tiny bird is ...

The tiny Cape Sable seaside sparrow, a bird perilously perched on the edge of extinction, is getting closer to vanishing. Helicopter surveys this year, over grassy prairies where the bird lives in ...

The 5-inch Cape Sable seaside sparrow has been listed as an endangered species ever since the Endangered Species Act -- then called the Endangered Species Preservation Act -- went into effect in 1967.

One conservation group is hoping the Cape Sable seaside sparrow doesn’t experience a similar fate. An endangered bird that lives only in pockets of the southern Everglades, the Cape Sable ...

The endangered Cape Sable seaside sparrow, eyes framed by yellow crescents, nests just above the crumbly soil of marl prairies flanking the marshy flow of Shark River Slough in Everglades National ...

A rare Cape Sable seaside sparrow sings from a blooming stalk of sawgrass in a marle prairie just east of Shark River Slough in Everglades National Park in 1996. Fewer than 300 of the endangered ...

The water problem pits the diminutive Cape Sable seaside sparrow against: The health of three of the state’s greatest estuaries (Florida Bay and the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers ...

The pilot program for the Cape Sable seaside sparrow will now likely change seasonal flood control for sparrow habitat that managers say could stymie future restoration work. “ We can't wait ...

A new study that modeled both rising sea levels and restoration efforts to move more water into Everglades National Park concluded that in just 50 years, the endangered Cape Sable seaside sparrow ...

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