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Tall white whooping crane with black wingtips standing in shallow Florida wetland
Wildlife

Florida's Whooping Cranes — A Reintroduction at the Edge of Memory

Roughly 14 whooping cranes are left in Florida — the remnant of a 22-year ultralight-led reintroduction that peaked at 110 birds in 2008 and then collapsed. It's North America's tallest bird, and the state's most ambitious failed-but-instructive species rescue.
Bald eagle in flight over pine flatwoods with Florida sky behind
Wildlife

Three Lakes WMA — Florida's Bald Eagle Stronghold

Florida has the highest bald eagle nesting density in the lower 48, and the densest pocket of all sits on a 63,000-acre wildlife management area in Osceola County. Here's how to drive it, what you'll see, and what to leave alone.