FDOT has been trying since the 1990s to extend State Road 7 and widen the road to four lanes as the population has boomed by ...

Touching on one of the hot-button issues during the decades long debate over the road — the road’s impact on the endangered Everglades snail kite, Ffolkes wrote that helping DuPuis helps the bird.

The area being developed, along Tradition Parkway and Fern Lake Avenue, is destroying the habitat for federally protected and endangered birds, like the Everglade snail kite, Savannah Steckler ...

Florida’s snail kites are evolving right in front of us. In the early 2000s, an invasive snail species took over these Florida wetlands. These invasive snails were too big for many of Florida's ...

These invasive snails were too big for many of Florida’s snail kites to consume so many birds vanished. But ten years later, these birds made an unbelievable recovery. - [Narrator] In the early ...

Known for its curved bill, square tail and red eyes, the Everglades snail kite has been a fixture on on the federal endangered species list since the first one was issued in 1967. Yet, after ...

So they only have gotten out by people having them as pets,” says Robert Fletcher, a professor in wildlife ecology at the University of Florida and principle investigator of a snail kite ...

Snail Kites feed almost exclusively on apple snails, a freshwater mollusk in Central and South Florida wetlands, including the Everglades, according to the Florida Audubon Society. Draining in ...

Since island apple snails invaded the Florida Everglades, an endangered species of bird known as the snail kite has bounced back from the threat of extinction. It's a rare case of a destructive ...

MOORE HAVEN, Fla. — In Florida's Everglades, few species are more closely tied to the habitat's health than an endangered bird, the snail kite. The Everglade snail kite is a raptor, similar to a ...

The population of an endangered bird, the Everglade snail kite, has rebounded recently. Scientists it's all thanks to an invasive snail that has... In Florida, an invasive snail is helping save an ...