They call us “citizen scientists.”
I’m not sure if I qualify, but I gave it my best shot. My friend and I walked along the beach at Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park on Sunday and counted birds, joining the tens of thousands of people who count birds each year for the Great Backyard Bird Count.
Last year, 93,600 [...]
Researchers at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington are doing a study on painted buntings, and they’ve added Florida to their observation area — so if you’ve got them in your yard, you could sign up.
(I’ve still never seen one . . . they’re on my list!)
They’re studying the population to get a handle [...]
Today while I was driving in downtown Naples a bald eagle flew over the busy street and landed in a tree. After four years in Florida, I’m still always surprised to see these gigantic birds — maybe because where I grew up in New York they were much more rare.
Florida has more bald eagles that [...]
Remember when I wrote about how Florida’s record cold weather was causing animals to react in all sorts of strange ways? Well, while it paralyzed iguanas and brought Burmese pythons out into the sun, it brought manatees closer to shore in search of warm water. I wrote about how they were moving around, too.
Last week, scientists did [...]
Bird have migrated since the beginning of time, but scientists have documented a new kind of movement.
More than half of birds that live in North America in the winter have moved north, according to a study of 40 years of data from the National Audubon Society. I was doing a little research about global warming, [...]
