Florida Birds Photography, LLC

08/31/2026

Those Eyes Were Built for Fishing! 👁️🐟👀
Did you know an Osprey’s eyesight is so sharp it can spot fish beneath the water while soaring high above? Their exceptional vision helps them track movement, judge distance, and time that spectacular feet-first plunge.

An overcast day never stops this magnificent bird of prey…also called a sea hawk or fish hawk!

📸 JD Parlier/ Florida Birds Photography

07/05/2026

Happy Independence Day - 250!!! 🇺🇸
As we celebrate our nation’s freedom, let’s also appreciate the wild places and remarkable birds that make America extraordinary. Wishing you a safe and memorable Fourth of July! ❤️🤍💙

06/20/2026

Volunteers and staff cleaned more than 1,200 feet of fishing line from nesting colonies on islands in Manatee County, Florida during the non-breeding season, thanks to a partnership between Audubon Florida and the Bishop-Parker Foundation—greatly improving outcomes for wading birds.

05/08/2026

Hummingbirds are also the only bird species capable of flying backwards.

04/26/2026

Over 6 million birds migrated over Florida last night! Wishing our feathered friends safe travels!!! Want to see migration patterns in your state our county?

Check out BirdCast: https://birdcast.org/migration-tools/migration-dashboard/

04/20/2026

Did You Know…
Sandhill Crane chicks, known as “colts,” develop quickly once hatched, around April-May in Florida. Within 24 hours, these adorable youngsters are capable of leaving the nest and are known for their running abilities from the get-go.

Enjoy these photos taken at the Celery Fields in Sarasota, FL with a very long lens as to not to disturb these chicks in motion.

📸 JD Parlier - Florida Birds Photography

04/08/2026

Check out Guardians of Nature A great page with informative graphics including this one on Peregrine falcons…a native Florida bird you can see in the Sunshine State!

I'm nesting on the ledge of an office building fourteen stories up. The tenants on that floor watch me through the conference room window. I've been here six years.

I'm a peregrine falcon.

In a hunting dive I fold my wings and drop at over two hundred miles per hour. I hit pigeons in mid-air at a speed that would kill anything else on impact. My nostrils are built to let me breathe at terminal velocity. My eyes seal behind a clear membrane on the way down.

I nearly disappeared. A pesticide thinned our eggshells until they cracked under our own weight. By the mid-twentieth century, almost none of us were left east of the Mississippi.

We came back on skyscrapers. Biologists placed chicks on building ledges so they'd grow up seeing cities as home. It worked.

The ledge replaces a cliff. The pigeons replace shorebirds. The thermals between buildings replace canyon updrafts. The city works.

🐦 How to find one near you:

- Look up at tall buildings with ledges near bridges or waterfronts — we need height and open airspace
- Watch for a pointed-wing silhouette diving steep and accelerating. No other bird moves like that
- Search your city name plus "peregrine falcon cam" — many urban nests have webcams
- Listen for a sharp rapid kak-kak-kak echoing off buildings

Over two hundred miles per hour. Fourteen stories up. Right downtown 🌿