To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, ...

The Florida Scrub-Jay is the only endemic or native bird to Florida. Despite being classified as a threatened species by Florida in 1975 and by the federal government in 1987, the Scrub-Jay ...

However, the species of nature lover that will feel most at home here is, without a doubt, the bird lovers. Over 350 species of birds have been spotted on the island, and there very well could be ...

Global warming is impacting a one-of-a-kind bird species in Florida in a way that is surprising ornithologists, a study found. Populations of the Florida scrub-jay, the only bird found solely in ...

A federal agency last month removed a bird native to Florida from the Endangered Species List, saying that the Bachman's warbler was one of more than 20 species now considered extinct.

Bird flu has killed thousands of Florida’s wild birds this year. Is it here to stay? A turkey vulture tussles with a bald eagle for a remnant of food at the Hernando County Landfill on Tuesday ...

As fireworks light up the skies this Independence Day, Collette Lauzau of Audubon Florida, urges beachgoers to be mindful of ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A native Florida bird was among 21 species declared extinct and delisted from the Endangered Species Act by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Monday.

Two bills in the Florida Legislature seek to overturn the mockingbird's nearly 100-year reign as the state bird in favor of a more colorful representative.

The Florida Museum of Natural History has one specimen of the Bachman's warbler in its collection. The imperiled species, native to Florida, was declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Florida's center stage in species protection would culminate in the 1970s when scientists, lawyers and activists, such as longtime Florida resident "Nat" Reed, helped write the Endangered Species Act.