The Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge on the Indian River Lagoon in East Central Florida became the first national wildlife refuge.

Wading through a clear knee-deep tidal pool in coastal Florida, I was trying to move slowly, to avoid disturbing a gorgeous American oystercatcher napping on a small sandbar. Oystercatchers are ...

A Florida governor in the early 1900s saw potential for the Everglades land but only if it was drained of its water.

Birds are always up to something, and these entries captured an array of avians doing everything from impaling prey to ...

The park contains a significant breeding ground for wading birds along ... of South Florida and opened up extensive farmland in western Palm Beach County with rich, black soil known as "muck." ...

According to the National Audubon Society, the limpkin is a wading bird with no close relatives. It feeds largely on freshwater apple snails in Florida and southern Georgia, and spends most of its ...