Birds

If the stay-at-home order has allowed you to get to know your local birds better, you can contribute what you’re seeing to a worldwide scientific effort.…

For the past 20 years WGCU listeners have been informed about the world around them here in Southwest Florida by Dr. Jerry Jackson’s With the Wild Things.…

This week, winds shifted from the west to the east, bringing a patch of red tide closer to shore and depositing dead fish and other sea life onto the…

Nearly two-thirds of all bird species in North America are at risk of extinction due to climate change according to a new report, released Thursday by the…

The first report came in on Monday. An Antillean Palm-Swift was spotted soaring above Grassy Key. In the world of serious birders, that's big news.

The state wildlife agency is taking the next step toward establishing — or re-establishing — the American Flamingo as a Floridian bird. Flamingos had...

Seabird specialists say that toxic red tide blooms in the Gulf of Mexico affect every species differently. Some shore birds are affected later than others.

For more than a month, shorebirds have been found dead and ill on Southwest Florida beaches. Environmentalist and animal advocate, Colleen Gill of Naples,…

For the last six months, Naples resident Colleen Gill has been patrolling Southwest Florida beaches looking for animals in distress and sharing her…

A bird that migrates more than 9,000 miles from the Arctic to the southern tip of South America, is encountering problems when it stops over in the...