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Johnny Jones, executive director of the Florida Wildlife Federation in the 1970s and 1980s, has passed away. He was a leader in combating the environmental destruction that confronts Florida today: ill-conceived drainage plans, the over development of marginal lands, and the destruction of the Everglades ecosystem. Jones spearheaded the major effort to address the ecological disaster inflicted [...]

Here is a list of your Governor, State Senators, and Representatives to contact with any of your concerns. Please bookmark this page so you can refer to it with issues that concern you, i.e. oil drilling. You can find out what district you are in by referring to your voter registration card. [...]

On Tuesday, June 8, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., the Clean Water Fund is hosting a free evening workshop at Spanish River Library, 1501 Spanish River Blvd. in Boca Raton. Learn about environmental threats to the quality and quantity of our water, and what you can do to protect our aquifer. Learn how to communicate [...]

PBC ERM TECHNICAL SERIES: MANATEES IN PALM BEACH COUNTY
Date: May 20, 2010 (Thursday)
Time: 2:30 – 3:30 pm
Location: Palm Beach County Department of Environmental Resources Management, 1st Floor, Room 1W-47/50
2300 N. Jog Road, West Palm Beach.
The Palm Beach County Department of Environmental Resources Management is working with Sea to Shore Alliance to document manatees. Please join [...]

9 birders joined ASE’s last field trip of the season at Spanish River Park on Saturday. Expectations were low, which enabled us to be quite pleased with our moderate luck: 7 warbler species, a Thick-billed Vireo, and a White-crowned Pigeon were seen on the trip! Below is the list of species:
Brown Pelican
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
White Ibis
Laughing Gull
White-crowned Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Common Nighthawk
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Great Crested Flycatcher
Cedar Waxwing
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Blue Jay
Fish Crow
European Starling
White-eyed Vireo
Black-whiskered Vireo
Northern Parula
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Cardinal
Painted Bunting
Boat-tailed Grackle
Common Grackle

The May/June edition of the Everglade Kite is now online in PDF format.

[ April 22, 2010; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] Come join the fun and help restore part of our Earth!  Thursday April 22, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. join Audubon Society of the Everglades at Okeeheelee Nature Center, 7715 Forest Hill Blvd, (one mile west of Jog Road).  Volunteers will be participating in the removal of the Brazilian Pepper that is covering the Gopher Tortoise Habitat.  Possibly [...]

We need your help!  Recent proposals by President Obama to open our coastline to offshore oil drilling is an issue of concern to all Florida residents. Please contact your Federal Legislators to voice objection to off shore drilling along Florida’s coast.
There are many reasons to voice your objection to off shore drilling.  Below are just a [...]

Please contact EPA by APRIL 28 to voice support for implementation of the new water standards EPA has proposed to help clean up Florida’s lakes and flowing waters.  These standards are more stringent than currently in force in the state.  There is objection to the proposed standards coming from a variety of state, agricultural, and [...]

The April 2010 Kite is now online. Here’s the link to the PDF.

[ April 8, 2010; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Linda Humphries presents “Green Cay Birds and Their Behaviors” at 7 p.m.
Green Cay Nature Center
12800 Hagen Ranch Road
Boynton Beach, FL 33437-4130
(561) 966-7000

Friday, March 19 8:30 am to 12:00 noon
Tour of Local Backyard Bird Gardens .
Come join Audubon Society of the Everglades in a free tour of Backyard Bird Gardens in the West Palm Beach/Lake Worth area. See what local homeowners are doing to encourage not only our native birds, but also those Northern bird visitors who [...]

Sometimes pleasant surprises lie tucked away in unexpected places. Such is the case with Peaceful Waters wetlands in Wellington, the first stop on our field trip February 20.
Not well known, Peaceful Waters is located at the edge of Wellington Village Park, near the intersection of Pierson Road and 120th. A boardwalk snakes through [...]

The March 2010 Kite is now online. Here’s the link to the PDF.

AUDUBON BIRDING WORKSHOP SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27
A practical and informative Birding Workshop will be presented by the Audubon Society of the Everglades on Saturday, February 27, 2010, 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM at Pine Jog Environmental Education Center, 6301 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach. Cost is $25 for the entire day (four classes) [...]

Last Saturday’s Everglades Day was a huge success; details to come. I was able to meet two of my birding heroes (Kenn and Kim Kaufman), even if it was only for a few minutes. Thanks to everyone for their hard work!

The February issue of the Everglade Kite is now (at last!) online.

Come on out to Everglades Day this Saturday! At the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. The program of events is chock full of great talks, hands-on activities, music, and much much more! Hear special guest speaker, Everglades photographer Clyde Butcher, and presentations by birding guide author Kenn Kaufman. There will be bus trips out [...]

Next Saturday, February 6th, please join us at the 11th Annual Everglades Day Festival–“Arts in the Everglades!
Saturday Feb 6, 8am-4pm at Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, 10216 Lee Road , Boynton Beach
In this official “Year of the Everglades”, come visit and enjoy our precious heritage with trained guides and special tours, outdoor canoeing, presentations, and special art and nature events. Free, family [...]

by Valleri Brauer
We had a perfect formula for a very successful birding weekend, January 23 & 24: 18 enthusiastic birders meeting 3 wonderful guides, reporting 94 species of birds and ducks, beautiful weather, great camaraderie and a photographer’s dream. Who could ask for more? We started out early from Palm Beach County to [...]

It’s here! Come to the 11th Annual Everglades Day Festival –“Arts in the Everglades ”
Saturday Feb 6, 8am-4pm at Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, 10216 Lee Road , Boynton Beach
In this official “Year of the Everglades”, come visit and enjoy our precious heritage with trained guides and special tours, outdoor canoeing, presentations, and special art and nature events. Free, family friendly, and [...]

Nearly 60 hardy birders, on 15 teams, ventured into the brisk outdoors Saturday, January 3, to take part in the annual West Palm Beach Christmas Bird Count.  A cold front had passed through the previous day, leaving morning temperatures in the 40′s and a northwest breeze blowing 10 to 20 miles an hour– conditions not ideal for some smaller [...]

On November 14, we experienced our first estuary walk which was  fun and informative once we recovered from our “cold feet”.  Kathryn Rothenburg showed us many of the tiny creatures that inhabit the mangroves – mangrove crabs in the trees!, mangrove snails, fiddler crabs and oyster communities.  The birds put on a good show with [...]

Thursday, January 7-Sunday, January 10, 2010
Everglades Coalition 25th Anniversary Conference
The Everglades: Nature’s Classroom
For more information, download the flyer. and visit evergladescoalition.org
Please consider attending this important event in our own backyard.

The January issue of the Everglade Kite is now available online. Click here for the archives.

Eight adventurous souls joined leader Ben Kolstad on a morning stroll through Yamato Scrub. If you aren’t familiar with Florida scrub, you really owe it to yourself to get out to some of the few remaining scraps of it in Palm Beach County, most of which are ERM lands now, so they will be protected [...]

About a dozen birders braved the chill of the Thanksgiving weekend cool front to convene at Green Cay on Saturday, November 28, 2009. The group was hopeful that the weather wouldn’t keep the birds hunkered down and out of sight. As it turned out, our hopes were borne out: the day turned out to be [...]

The December issue of the Everglade Kite is now available online.

Twenty-five birders parked in the Palmetto Trailhead Parking lot off of 45th street and Jog Road for the bird walk on the Solid Waste Authority Greenway Trail. We walked the 2-mile loop trail through the rookery (Grassy Waters levee was on the left side of the trail; there is a trail map available on the Solid [...]

The November issue of the Everglade Kite is now available online.