What’s black and white all over, puts on a mesmerizing mating performance and definitely doesn’t belong in Florida? A parasitic African songbird that could threaten the state’s native birds.

Nick Nicholson via Unsplash When a homeowner in northern Florida looked out at her bird feeders the first weekend in March, she thought she saw a red-headed woodpecker. There was a brown bird ...

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commissioners met Thursday and Friday online, adopting the eastern black rail bird to the list, in order to be consistent with federal protections.