From Audubon Magazine The Flight of Spoonbills, Changing Everglades, and Lessons for the World As sea levels rise, turning South Florida’s wetlands into open water, Roseate Spoonbills are moving northward. Land managers are following their lead to restore the ecosystem for resilience.
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Popular Stories How to Identify a Rook from a Crow Meet These 20 Common Birds The 10 Best Foods for Winter Birdfeeding Perfect Gifts for Bird and Nature Lovers in Your Life How to Identify a Downy Woodpecker from a Hairy Woodpecker Miles away from the coast, deep into Everglades National Park, where the public isn’t allowed, I sunk ankle-deep into the mangrove mud beneath a low, bent canopy of branches. The ground was scattered with fish heads, feathers, and eggshells. Sharp guano painted every leaf and branch; flakes fell and hung suspended in the air.
Shadows passed overhead, and looking up from the shadows, I saw white pelicans gliding like pterodactyls and then the shimmer of roseate spoonbills, followed by herons and egrets squatting and squabbling amongst the branches.