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The swamp lakes of the American South offer serenity and beauty. This particularly remote one in Mississippi also boasts ...

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Fakahatchee Strand (go ahead, practice saying it a few times – fuh-kuh-HATCH-ee) is the kind of place that makes you forget ...

The south end of Fort Myers Beach is a nesting site for many of Southwest Florida's protected shorebirds. Those include black skimmers, least terns, snowy plovers, Wilson's plovers and more.

The ArtIsNow program, run through Osceola Arts, has big plans to commission even more colorful murals while preserving the ...

Florida state law allows for residents to keep a variety of strange animals as pets, though there are more than a few hoops to jump through, depending on what type of critter you want to take home.

Scientists have tagged birds for more than 100 years. That preservation program might be defunded.

Mark Ian Cook, a wildlife and scientific photographer, wrote on Facebook that he saw the group of 115 birds late last week.