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We explore global trends for democracy and authoritarianism with with Michael Abramowitz, President of Freedom House and the former director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education, and a former national editor and White House correspondent for The Washington Post.

The Great Blue Heron is our largest Heron and found almost throughout North America. Northern populations have to migrate south or to coastal areas as waters freeze in winter. Although primarily feeding on fish, when opportunity arises, a Great Blue Heron will eat frogs, lizards, small mammals, or even the chicks of other birds.A word of caution is in order: An injured Great Blue Heron can be very dangerous to humans and efforts to rescue one must begin by gaining control of its head and neck – such as by covering it with a blanket or large towel. They are experts at striking at small things that move – such as your eyes!

Mote Marine laboratory reports a dolphin used to being fed by boaters was found dead on Friday in Sarasota.Known as “Beggar” the bottlenose dolphin was…

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Social media has been the gathering place for some of the most vocal opponents of Florida’s Common Core State Standards. These are the new, tougher…

We meet the new Collier County Waterkeeper, Ray Bearfield. Bearfield is a former fishing guide and educator at Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, who first came to Naples in the mid-1970s as an editor of The Naples Daily News. He has written extensively about Southwest Florida for the Coastal Conservation Association, Florida Sportsman magazine, The Miami Herald and other publications.

Maria Popova, editor of brainpickings.org (and the über tweeter behind @brainpicker), describes herself as an "interestingness hunter-gatherer obsessed with combinatorial creativity." Popova discusses her work, and explains why she thinks the blogosphere needs a "curators' code."

Critics blasted the Marine Corps for not publishing its full study on how gender integration affected combat readiness. NPR obtained the 978-page report.

The Limpkin is a large bird of wetland – especially swamp – habitats that can be found throughout Florida and only more recently and rarely in other southern states. It is a tropical species also found in Cuba and on other Caribbean Islands and well into tropical South America. The Limpkin is a food specialist – feeding primarily on large Apple Snails, but also taking clams and some insects. The Limpkin has been a game bird in Florida – but is now protected as a troubled species – troubled because of habitat losses and fragmentation of the suitable habitats that remain. Florida has only one native Apple Snail and its populations have also declined. Four additional Apple Snail species now occur in Florida and compete with the native species. All four are invasive exotics most likely introduced through the pet trade.

Doves and pigeons are among the most recognizable of birds – in part because of their close association with humans. Although they are regular patrons at bird feeders, doves and pigeons generally feed on spilled seeds that accumulate beneath feeders.