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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service delisted 21 species from the Endangered Species Act. They are considered extinct.

Bird watchers have been observing a rare one-in-a-million yellow cardinal in a wooded teaching area at the University of Florida campus.

Mr. Yellow, Tweets and Sunny: Experts say there are only 10-15 yellow cardinals in North America. So when the rare bird shows up, it tends to go viral

Bird watchers have been observing a rare one-in-a-million yellow cardinal in a wooded teaching area at the UF campus in Gainesville.

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Birdwatching goes digital with active online community Over the next 48 hours, Arcuri navigated the delights and perils of sharing a big find with the Very Online birding community, where rare bird alerts are pushed to mobile and geotagged on ebird within minutes.  For context, Scales says, you have to understand the "twitch" – a birder’s reactive sprint to see a bird reported by someone else. It refers to the shudders and jerks of a birder beside themselves with...

Gainesvilles 62nd annual Christmas bird count tallied 77,542 birds — the highest ever for the city. The new record total is thousands above the previous high of 72,237 birds counted in 1977 despite coronavirus pandemic challenges and finicky weather jeopardizing the event. "We didnt even know if we were going to have the count," said Andy Kratter, collection manager of ornithology at the University of Florida Museum of Natural History and a Gainesville count leader. But after tallying the ...

In 2020, Gainesville’s Birders Counted On The Unusual By Jenn Hayes Pratibha Singh says the most beautiful time of the year is when the sandhill cranes come flying into Gainesville. Pratibha Singh scopes out birds from the Paynes Prairie observation tower. (Photo courtesy of Pratibha Singh) Singh now works as an administrator at the University of Florida’s College of Business, but years ago she was trained as an officer in the Indian Forest Service. She completed field work in the Himalaya...