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Feb. 22—Wildlife managers in Florida are finally moving to address an existential question: If the state is like an all-you-can eat buffet for invasive reptiles originally introduced as exotic pets, then why are some of those species still imported and sold by breeders and pet stores? Until 2010, the now infamous Burmese python was easily found at pet stores across Florida, even as scientific ...

Bringing back the ‘most endangered bird’ in the U.S. Craig Pittman © Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark At the end of the 2020 breeding season in August, researchers counted some 112 Florida grasshopper sparrows in the wild. Ashleigh Blackford has seen her share of dramatic bird releases over the years. She vividly recalls California condors soaring high into the sky and San Clemente loggerhead shrikes fluttering free. The tiny Florida grasshopper sparrow, on the other hand, merely hopped out of an open screen and skittered along the ground, says B...

Rare bird typically found in Siberia, eastern Asia possibly spotted in New Glasgow A rare bird, typically found in Siberia and eastern Asia, was possibly spotted in Nova Scotia last week. Avid birder Angela MacDonald saw what she thinks is a Taimyr gull, otherwise known as the Siberian gull, in a New Glasgow parking lot last Monday.  Social Sharing Birder Angela MacDonald says this could be the first reported sighting of the Taimyr gull in Canada Posted: Jan 10, 2021 11:59 AM AT | Last Updated: January 10 A Taimyr gull, which is typically found in Siberia and eastern Asia, was possibly spott...

They can handle that. >> that's almost best case scenario for them. we just talked to the governor, the mayor of clearwater. >> that was lowered. and then here is -- you know, we've flipped. with the storm being closer to the middle of the state and the winds still being strong on the east coast, now we're going from fernanda beach 4 to 6 foot storm surge. >> on the east coast? >> yeah. >> oh, day is night and night is day. >> and fernanda beach to jupiter inlet 3 to 5 feet. clearwater beach, now jumping back to the other coast, to ochlockonee river, and i know i didn't pronounce that one righ...

So only down. only went down from 105. >> gusts are still possible. >> still a category 2, yes. 100-mile-per-hour winds. it is now located about 40 miles east-northeast of sarasota. about 50 miles southeast of tampa. the pressure is not rising all that fast. the key thing i was looking at, i was waiting for the hurricane center to redo their storm surges and they have. so here is the new one. cape sable to captiva, they're saying 4 to 6-foot storm surge. the captiva area, they have dropped that. that was in the 5 to 8. they dropped that to about 4 to 6. captiva to ana marie island is now 3 to ...