Nestled along Florida’s Gulf Coast in Manatee County, the historic fishing village of Cortez offers a genuine taste of Old Florida that’s becoming increasingly rare in the Sunshine State. Forget those ...

Nestled along Florida’s Gulf Coast, Cortez Historic Fishing Village stands as a delicious time capsule where salty breezes ...

Florida's coastal residents and visitors can enjoy a reprieve from red tide concerns, as the red tide organism, Karenia brevis, was not observed in any ...

Some skimmers were seen loafing on the sands while others hunted the shallow waters in search of a meal. Least terns bathed and a lone reddish egret danced, pranced and ran in a zig zagging ...

Watch black skimmers, least terns, plovers and other shorebirds - along with some hungry dolphins - give a show at Fort Myers Beach | Video ...

The south end of Fort Myers Beach is a nesting site for many of Southwest Florida's protected shorebirds. Those include black skimmers, least terns, snowy plovers, Wilson's plovers and more.

Have you ever heard mention of a rookery? Or colonial waterbirds? If you have, it wasprobably in association with large egret-type birds. But there are many other birds that nests in rookeries ...

Long-term Coastal Changes Unfortunately, in a rush to rebuild after a storm, or by annually maintaining dredged channels or hardened shorelines, people are reducing critical foraging habitat for some ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a record-breaking 126-day Gulf red snapper season this year, beginning on Memorial Day weekend. What to know.

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