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The program for Everglades Day is now available; it’s a 1.5MB download, but worth the wait!

The February edition of the Everglade Kite is now available online.

Birds seen on this weekend’s (1/17 and 1/18) field trip to Shark Valley and Corkscrew; 75 species in all:
Pied-billed Grebe
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Wood Stork
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Crested Caracara
American Kestrel
Common Moorhen
Killdeer
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Royal Tern
Rock Dove
Eurasian Collared Dove
Mourning Dove
Belted [...]

For the first time in a couple of years, the Wood Stork colony at Audubon’s Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is initiating nesting. According to Monday’s Naples News, more than 60 nests with eggs have been spotted, and over 300 more birds are courting and/or building nests. This is great news, indeed! For the full article, follow [...]

The Florida FWC has just come out with their latest issue of Kite Tails, the newsletter about the Great Florida Birding Trail. The hi-res version of the newsletter can be had here; for a text-only copy, try this link instead. Both links require Acrobat Reader.
While you’re there, try the interactive trip planner; it uses Google [...]

Just in from across the state: New trail opening at Fort Center.
http://www.amazon.com/Fort-Center-Archaeological-Okeechobee-Ripley/dp/0813012988
Please join Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission (FWC) at Fisheating Creek WMA at the Field Office located on Banana Grove Road, just off CR 78 north of Moore Haven, Jan 10th from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.  We are celebrating a new trail opening at [...]

The Florida Humanities Council is funding the third year of a lecture series sponsored by The Delray Beach Historical Society.  The second lecture is John James Audubon’s Travels in America and will be held on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 6:30 pm.  Professor George Frein is the speaker.  
The Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. [...]

This year’s Everglades Day will take place on February 7, 2009. For more information, visit our Everglades Day page.

Just got word of an exciting new lecture series at Gumbo Limbo, for our south county members. The first talk of 2009 is by Steve Bass, former manager of the nature center at Gumbo Limbo; it will be on Florida’s freshwater wetland plants. This one is on January 13; subsequent talks appear to be every [...]

The January edition of the Everglade Kite is now available online.