The Environmental Conservancy of North Port is seeking to raise almost $9,000 by Sept. 5 to purchase quarter-acre lot in ...

If you live in Florida long enough, you learn that two kinds of people move here. One comes to Florida, appreciating what the state has to offer. The other moves in and immediately starts trying to ...

Once again, Florida lawmakers are debating whether to replace the northern mockingbird with the Florida scrub-jay as the official state bird. Of course they should. Everyone knows that. The scrub-jay ...

Because of warmer winters, Florida scrub-jays are now nesting one week earlier than they did in 1981. But these early birds are not always getting the worm. A new analysis of data from a long-term ...

MELBOURNE, Fla. – If you’ve never tried wildlife photography on a cold, windy, raining Florida day… congrats on your mental stability. And of course, the day I’m chasing it around, the weather decided ...

Florida Scrub Jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, USA, February 2017. By Kirsty Nadine via iStock for WMNF News. Several environmental groups have ...

Florida lawmakers are considering bills to replace the mockingbird with the flamingo as the state bird and the scrub-jay as the state songbird. The flamingo is seen as a unique symbol of Florida, ...

From the beaches to the prairies. From the towns and the cities. From the hills of Tallahassee, the people shout with glee, “The Florida scrub jay is the new state bird!” If only this were true. The ...

The Pacific Legal Foundation says the Endangered Species Act does not apply to species — such as the Florida bird — found in only one state. The modest Florida scrub-jay has now been enlisted into a ...

Stan, you happened to send this on the one day last month when that assertion was provably false — my colonoscopy prep day. Scott, loved your column on the Florida native scrub-jay being the state ...