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Jay Watch 2024 Season Summary: Audrey DeRose-Wilson Letter
February 25, 2025 — To all our Jay Watchers reading these pages, thank you again for your efforts this season to record jay sightings. We hope our stories inspire others to take future action. Learn more: AudubonJayWatch.org
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2024 Jay Watch Season: By the Numbers
February 25, 2025
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What Does the Overall Florida Scrub-Jay Population Look Like? A New Update Tells Us
February 25, 2025 — An upcoming FWRI study provides a glimpse into statewide jay populations.
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Highlights: Jay Watch Ambassadors
February 25, 2025 — Jay Watch is built on partnerships. Ambassadors inspire volunteers to be involved in Florida Scrub-Jay conservation.
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Ready, Set, Bird!
February 20, 2025 — Audubon Florida staff share highlights from the annual Great Backyard Bird Count.
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Audubon Reaching Toward $20 Million Campus Vision at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
February 18, 2025 — The re-imagined campus will provide the infrastructure needed to advance Audubon’s conservation leadership in the Western Everglades.
Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
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A Rooftop-nesting “Snowbird” Visitor in Florida
February 18, 2025 — Peregrine Falcons hunt for prey along Florida's coastlines each winter.
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FGCU Students Launch Collaborative Project to Prevent Deadly Bird Strikes on Campus
February 14, 2025 — by Edwin Wilke, Audubon CLI alumni, former president of FGCU Ornithology Club.
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February Survey Shows Wood Storks Nesting in Southwest Florida, Just Not at Corkscrew Swamp
February 13, 2025 — No Wood Storks were seen in the area of the historic colony.
Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
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Audubon Florida and Tallahassee Museum Team Up for New Exhibit Highlighting 125 Years of Conservation in the Sunshine State
January 30, 2025 — The exhibit, hosted in the Phipps Gallery, will run through May 31, 2025.