After Louisiana named the brown pelican its state bird in the 60s, attention helped support breeding programs that revived the state’s disappearing population, he said. “State bird is free.

News tagged with wading birds. Date. 6 hours 12 hours 1 day 3 days all. ... flamingos in Florida were more likely to be spotted on T-shirts and cups in a souvenir shop than ... dark brown and pure ...

Birders recording on eBird.org, a crowd-sourced site run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, have recorded more than 230 species, including numerous wading birds, brown thrashers, buntings and the ...

It turns out the bird was a limpkin, a brown and white wading bird that lives primarily in Florida. ... which typically lives in southern Florida, and a shallow-tailed kite seen in Newaygo.

According to the National Audubon Society, the limpkin is a wading bird with no close relatives.It feeds largely on freshwater apple snails in Florida and southern Georgia, and spends most of its ...

The "Audubon's Birds of Florida" exhibit at the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art of the Museum of Arts & Sciences in Daytona Beach will be on display through March 2.