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.

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 ...

The brackish water was still as glass. As the sun rose from beneath a glaucous, marbled blanket of clouds, it saluted those ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to The Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge’s latest survey on wading birds, this year brings the largest active wading bird colony in the Everglades, with over 7,000 ...

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 ...

Mark Cook leans against a wooden fence railing at Wakodahatchee Wetlands as a cotton-white and charcoal grey wood stork flies about three feet above his head, its down feathers trickling from the sky.

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 ...