Asides FloridaAmazingly, it was a visiting birder from New York who discovered Neotropic Cormorants breeding in the Wakodahatchee Wetlands. Congratulations to Ardith Bondi for the great find ! MORE >>

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will be meeting on Wednesday and will be voting on the removal of sixteen species from the state’s endangered species list , including four birds – Snowy Egret , Brown Pelican , Limpkin , and White Ibis. Asides MORE >>

I was in Florida last week, the freakiest of the southeastern states.  I don’t play golf and I’m not one for laying out by the pool so my Florida related activities are almost exclusively exploration related and even though I was hardly at what you’d call a wildlife refuge, it was Florida.  All true of course.  MORE >>

Wait, you probably are already going to do that… Anyway, here are the images, all taken when I was in Florida at the end of January for the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival: Quiz Pic 1 Quiz Pic 2 Quiz Pic 3 Diabolical? You all know the drill. The winner gets nothing but pride and the losers get nothing but shame. … a. MORE >>

Being from Florida, a state which has had its fair share of controversy and hate, this story makes me happy: Fur has officially been banned from the Miss Florida USA Pageant. The cruelty of fur has no place in a beauty pageant,&# said Don Anthony , a member of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida. Via Vegetarian Star. MORE >>