From Winn-Dixie and Dillard's rooftops to man-made rafts, shorebirds find creative ways to protect their eggs.

Researchers and volunteers are surveying thousands of shorebirds as they migrate south, hoping the data -- on one of the most ...

As fireworks light up the skies this Independence Day, and extended three-day weekend, Collette Lauzau, a shorebird program manager with Audubon Florida, urges beachgoers to be mindful of nesting ...

Baby shorebirds are often so well-camouflaged they can get crushed under foot. According to FWC, here's why we should care and what we should and shouldn't do to spare nesting shorebirds and sea ...

An oystercatcher parent and two chicks stand on a spoil island serving as a nesting site in Mosquito Lagoon, the northernmost section of the Indian River Lagoon, on May 27, 2025. That’s despite a ...

Piping plovers are small shorebirds that nest primarily on sand, gravel or cobblestone beaches. The court heard that there are only 170 to 190 nesting pairs left, well below the 2022 plan's goal ...

The Tour de Turtles featuring AMI swimmer Winnie the loggerhead is underway. The Sea Turtle Conservancy’s annual migration ...

Migratory shorebirds in decline The rufa red knot has one of the longest migrations among bird species, and its numbers are in steep decline. During an annual count in the spring of 2021 ...

The Stanley Park Ecology Society puts plain wooden nest boxes built by volunteers on poles in Lost Lagoon. Last year the society increased the number of nest boxes for tree sparrows from six to 15.

Though she has spent most of this time studying shorebirds in the Arctic, in 2017, she started monitoring a unique urban-nesting shorebird, the Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus), right here in ...