On a recent morning at Fort De Soto's North Beach, the parking lot looked like a tourist convention, with license plates from a dozen states. A motorized paraglider hovered over the shoreline, the fan ...

Florida's beaches double as nesting grounds for threatened shorebirds each spring and summer. Species like American Oystercatchers, Least Terns, and Black Skimmers nest directly on sand and rooftops.

With nesting grounds on beaches growing more crowded or losing ground to sea rise, nearly 60 percent of Florida's threatened least terns now build their nests and rear their young on rooftops. The ...

The beloved beach bird that was almost lost is making an incredible comeback - A shorebird known for its sharp, orange bill ...