Pelican Island Audubon Society
Serving Indian River County since 1964
Category: Birds Need Plants
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September 2022 Birds Need Plants Photo Contest
Such elegance, this male Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea)!
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May 2022 Birds Need Plants Photo Contest
Blue Cypress Lake: an Osprey Paradise Osprey Pandion haliaetus by Bill Loftus, Ph.D. On a calm, sunny morning in April, a small boat captained by Jim Shea leaves the dock at Blue Cypress Lake with three other Pelican Island Audubon members. Motoring out the boat channel onto the main lake, Jim turns the boat north…
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April 2022 Birds Need Plants Photo Contest
A Mouthful to Cache Florida Scrub-Jay Aphelocoma coerulescens by Juanita N. Baker, Ph.D. Did you know that our Florida Scrub-Jay is so very smart? In the fall when oaks produce acorns, one Jay caches (hides and stores) over 8000 acorns in thousands of different places in the sand and can remember each place! If they…
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March 2022 Birds Need Plants Photo Contest
From most populous to threatened Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor Order CICONIIFORMES – Family ARDEIDAE by Juanita N. Baker, Ph.D. Even on a cold and wet PIAS field trip to Orlando Wetlands, the birds can be found but …also cold and wet. Beautifully photographed by Lou Lower, every feather is detailed. Appearing very much alive in…