Ornithologically speaking Florida has quite a long history. Before extensive human settlement it was a wild and somewhat inhospitable land covered in large part by mosquito infested-swamps and marshes. The ornithological exploration of Florida began in the late 1770s when William Bartram undertook a series of expeditions to catalogue the state’s wildlife. John James Audubon […]
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When you amble along the Wilderness Road in eastern Kentucky, that primitive track blazed by early American pioneers through the Appalachian Range, you’ll enjoy some of the best mountain bird watching in the eastern United States. Exploring the mountain trails and wooded field edges, you can find more than 20 species of nesting warblers, including
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Millions of us who love birds know at least a bit about John James Audubon, perhaps the greatest birder of them all, and most of us are familiar with the Audubon Society, one of our leading national conservation organizations. Strange, then, that relatively few folks have visited or even heard about Audubon State Park in
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Birding Florida Florida is a unique place for birds and birding in the United States. Projecting as it does into the Gulf of Mexico, it provides a natural funnel through which millions of migratory birds pass each year either on their way to wintering grounds in the Caribbean and Central America or on their way
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