It's not a canary or a coal mine in Florida, but the idea from Audubon of Florida is the same. Wading birds hold the same function as the canary, and in this case the coal mine is the Everglades.

Breeding numbers were down for some bird species for the third straight year in a row in the Everglades. Nesting numbers for wading birds fell by 38 percent compared to the past decade. That's ...

Just after dawn Tuesday, a pair of great blue heron in breeding plumage worked on their nest in a mangrove tree on Hemp Key in Pine Island Sound while other great blues and great egrets perched on ...

HIGH ISLAND — Gorgeous is the word that pops into mind at the sight of breeding-plumaged wading birds at the rookery in the Houston Audubon Society's Smith Oaks Bird Sanctuary. The brightly colored ...

Joe Ambrozy has been coming to Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary since 1979, and he’s noticed something, just like a lot of the regulars who stroll the preserve’s boardwalk: Nesting wading birds are harder to ...

Some of the Everglades’ most common wading bird species, including the usually numerous white ibis, nested far less in 2010 compared to 2009, and scientists at the South Florida Water Management ...

A positive sign for Southwest Florida’s environment: The population of wading birds in the Everglades is soaring to near-record numbers. Wading birds going about their business in our swamps may not ...

When rain brought an end to an intense drought in the Everglades a decade ago, wildlife biologist Peter Frederick thought there would be few wading birds left. Instead, he was shocked to note a surge ...

Young birds with their all-white plumage toss some confusion into the task of identifying wading birds. As the young birds reach the age of one, they begin to transition into their adult plumage, ...

Wading birds in the Everglades built more nests in 2018 than any other year in the last 80, a record-breaking nesting event made possible by the right balance of wet and dry conditions in the delicate ...

Near optimal bouts of rain and dry skies appear ready to deliver a 2021 wading bird bonanza for South Florida – a boon year needed after last season’s avian apocalypse when scores of chicks starved to ...