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Florida Beach-Nesting Birds Poster

Saving the Florida Grasshopper Sparrow – Conservation at Work
Watch the video to the left for an insight into how wildlife scientists work. Dr. Paul Gray of Audubon Florida and Jorge Buening, Lead Biologist at the Welaka National Fish Hatchery, talk to SJRA members about the efforts to save the highly endangered Florida Grasshopper Sparrow, a species endemic to the dry prairie ecosystem of central and south Florida.
This video gives an excellent overview of the remarkable scientists who are fighting to bring the numbers of these birds back – the thought processes that they went through, the trial and error efforts they have made, how they adjusted their thinking as new information became available, and how a little creative thinking can solve problems.
This video also shows how their efforts are starting to pay off in terms of increasing numbers of
these little birds.