Eagle Audubon Society

06/14/2026

Just because its interesting...tap

A researcher found that a Japanese pond frog is impervious to the stings of the northern giant hornet, even when it goes down the hatch.

06/13/2026

🌴 Florida’s beauty isn’t just our beaches.

It’s the crystal-clear springs, winding rivers, wetlands, forests, wildlife, and open spaces that make this state unlike anywhere else.

Growth is inevitable. Losing what makes Florida special doesn’t have to be.

Protect the land. Protect the water. Protect Florida’s future. 💙🌿

06/11/2026

Which one surprised you the most?? Comment below 👇

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06/11/2026

Florida has the Red Shouldered Hawk. Not pictured here.

The Cooper's Hawk in the backyard is watching the wire feeder. The Red-tailed Hawk on the highway exit is watching the median. The Peregrine Falcon on the city ledge is watching the pigeons.

A peregrine in a hunting stoop hits two hundred miles an hour. It pulls its wings into a teardrop, falls out of the sky, and at the last second a thin translucent third eyelid slides across each eye so it can keep them open through the impact.

North America has dozens of native hawks and falcons, from a bald eagle longer than a yard to a kestrel the size of a blue jay. They all have two foveae in each eye instead of our one — one focused straight ahead, one focused to the side — and most of them can resolve a vole in grass from the top of a telephone pole.

Falcons have a notch in the upper beak called a tomial tooth. After they grab a bird in midair, they bite down on the back of its neck and the notch slips between the vertebrae and severs the spinal cord. Hawks use their feet. Falcons use their face.

The hawk on the wire is watching what you can't see 🌿

06/08/2026

🐊🌅 This isn't a river. It isn't a lake. It's a slow-moving river of grass unlike anywhere else on Earth.

The Everglades is one of Florida's greatest natural wonders, covering more than a million acres of wetlands, sawgrass prairies, mangrove forests, and wildlife habitat. From alligators and wading birds to elusive panthers and crocodiles, the Everglades supports an incredible diversity of life that makes it one of the most important ecosystems in North America.

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06/01/2026

Wood storks and Roseate Spoonbills at our entrance! What a sight!!!

06/01/2026

Little Blue Heron. This can be difficult to identify. Its a small dark wading bird with a purplish-blue body, a maroon head and neck in breeding season,and greenish legs.
Juveniles are entirely white,often mistaken for Snowy Egrets, and gradually turn blue as they mature. They are found in freshwater and marine wetlands, feeding on fish, crustaceans, and insects.