Demand for fashionable hats almost wiped out one of North America's rarest birds. Now Florida biologists want to establish a baseline for the reddish egret's population to make sure the bird with the ...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Why fly when you can just hitch a ride? That's exactly what one fearless great egret did at Gatorland in Orlando last month. Video recorded by Tiffanie Eden shows the intrepid bird ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (FOX 13) - When you need a ride somewhere, it’s only appropriate that a gator could be an option in Florida. Jim Schaller was visiting Gatorland in Orlando for his daughter’s birthday on ...

It sounds like the setup for a joke missing a punchline: What’s big and white and seen all over? One of the first things many Southwest Florida newcomers may notice is the abundance of large, pale, ...

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As a fifth-generation resident of South Florida, the West Palm Beach lawyer Harvey E. Oyer III heard the family stories of the region’s rough-and-ready early years. Inspired by the teenaged adventures ...

"We suspect that there are population declines in the last 15 or 20 years," said Andrew Cox, a biologist at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. "This is a species that is currently ...