Spring is the time of year when the Caloosahatchee River needs water most from Lake Okeechobee, and pulse releases are ongoing to feed the river's delicate estuary. But Okeechobee releases may slow ...

Though paddling, floating and rafting down the river isn’t something the majority of folks are able to do right now (brr!), let’s recall a few favorite floats from summer. Of course, there’s the crew ...

Low water levels in 2004 drew wading birds like this great blue heron to a conservation area west of Broward County. A similar dry season following 2016’s record rain helped make 2017 a successful ...

Environmentalists working to restore native bird populations to the Florida Everglades are celebrating a major win. State environmental officials announced last week that last year’s extraordinary ...

Several species of wading birds, especially herons and egrets, make Eastern Iowa their home in warmer months. They are larger, elegant birds with long proportions. Their bills are knifelike and ...

Even in the desert, a patchwork of watery places can together comprise sufficient habitat for small numbers of wading birds to eke out a living for all or part of the year. Here in southern New Mexico ...

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.

A diverse mix of long-legged wading birds are once again as thick as no-see-ums at a popular downtown Port Royal wetlands where they are turning the green trees white with dashes of blacks, blues and ...

Bellwethers of Everglades health balance on long skinny legs the color of driftwood at the Wakodahatchee Wetlands west of Delray Beach. Perched in tangles of branches woven into treetops, fuzzy heads ...

Wading bird nesting — a key indicator of Everglades health — was weak in 2020 after a very wet rainy season started early with massive storms in May, diluting pools where fish had concentrated and ...