Residents and visitors often see swallow-tailed kites flashing overhead during the spring months as they hunt just above the ...

"They build nests of small sticks woven with ... and they've long soared through Florida's sub-tropical climate. "Part of what awes you is the bird's aerial grace as it swoops and twists over ...

Daniel Bonillo University of Florida / IFAS The researchers are still waiting for results, but in a few months, they’ll know exactly how the mosquito-bird-lizard-human transmission works.

Conservation strategies are turning back the doomsday clock in threatened Florida-Scrub Jays—but not ... of acres of restored habitat, home to a small community of 13 jays.

Whether they’re opening for takeoff, spreading wide for a lazy soar or flapping to brake for landing, bird wings make flying ...

As outbreaks for several diseases are being monitored across the U.S., state DPH Commissioner Robbie Goldstein has an update ...

and the ones known in Florida bite humans, birds, amphibians, and reptiles like the brown anole, a pencil-sized lizard with a signature orange gullet. Though these lizards are fast and feisty when ...

Concerns arise about the potential severity of the bird flu ... of small-town Stuart. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Your vote matters. Florida Gov.

But by the 1970s, the population in Florida had made a comeback ... It’s not unusual for a very small number of birds to spend the winter while the rest of their peers migrate south.

Walking through it feels like you’ve entered a fairy tale set in South Florida. What to love: Gulfstream Park is often ...

I’ve been sitting outside watching the birds. Suzy Fleming Leonard is a retired journalist who spent 25 years as a writer, editor and columnist at FLORIDA TODAY. Reach her at [email protected].

Because of bird flu concerns, Joshua Cooey of Tallahassee, Florida, has made sure his coops ... But, while Finley has created a small business, most of New’s eggs are for her home and neighbors.