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Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, has also filed a proposal to rescind the designation of the mockingbird as the state bird.

A biologist says the sparrows became a key indicator for Everglades health and the variety of plants that the ecosystem needs to flourish.

Birds keep crashing into Jacksonville buildings, and local conservation groups are seeking volunteers this month to help reduce the number of injuries...

The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is in the midst of updating its management plan, which may include changes to areas with special protection like Pelican Shoal.

A mysterious illness is killing songbirds in the Southeast and Midwest regions of the United States. Florida wildlife officials have not received any related reports.

The Cape Florida Banding Station is one of the few banding stations on the Southeast Atlantic Coast and has stayed open thanks largely to the work of a single, driven scientist.

Least terns are protected in Florida. That didn't stop a Keys yacht club from removing nearly 130 chicks and eggs to repair its roof.

The U.S. military and conservation groups forged an unusual alliance to help save the red-cockaded woodpecker, but a Trump-era move to take it off the endangered list could threaten the bird.

In 2018 at the height of the red tide outbreak, WGCU reported on dead birds falling from the sky in Collier and Lee counties. Now, conservation agencies have concluded those Common and Sandwich Terns died from diseases related to red tide blooms.

The rescue group Friends of the Pelicans says some 16 disfigured birds have been found at the pier since Jan. 9.

For more than a year, birder Dennis Olle has been complaining to park officials that the speed limit was too high and harming wildlife. Now a snow goose, which made a rare appearance in the park earlier this month, is dead.

As cranes continue to crowd South Florida’s skyline, birds of different feather are becoming increasingly hard to find. On Saturday, birders and...