Garl's Coastal Kayaking Everglades

09/19/2022

pair of 50 CC motors- hard to find, act fast if interested. I upgraded. These are off the boat and ready to go.

09/19/2022

PAIR OF MOTORS FOR SALE from my Twin Vee. Make an offer!

11/13/2019

Our most sincere joyful congratulations to our fantastic email customer service agent and graphic designer Hannah and her husband Mac on the arrival of their healthy baby boy. These two folks are such fantastic people that having a combination of them out in the world can only bring great joy and positivity to all. Great health and happiness to you all ❤️💕❤️

10/30/2019

Awesome, another flamingo here from Mexico spotted on a trip last week.

When our friend Garl (Garl’s Coastal Kayaking) was kayaking Florida Bay on October 17th and spotted this bird, he immediately reported it to us. Now on the alert, a few days later three of our staff (Research Associates Jon-Paul Haydocy, Bryan white and Biologist Kevin Welsh), were also lucky enough to spot the bird. Bryan quickly took the excellent photograph below which clearly shows the bird’s band.

From the band information we know that this bird was banded on August 26, 2016 as a chick in the nesting colony at La Angostura in the Reserva de la Biosfera Ría Lagartos on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. This is the third banded flamingo from Mexico observed in Florida Bay since 2002, indicating that the American Flamingos have finally started to reach their historic numbers after being largely protected from hunting throughout most of their range. It also adds to our previous findings that American Flamingos are part of Florida’s native avifauna. Until we published those findings last year, the state of Florida considered them as a non-native, introduced species that had escaped from captive populations such as at Hialeah Race Track near Miami. Re-sightings of banded birds like this one strengthens the argument that the increased sightings of Flamingos in the wild, in recent years, are a result of Flamingo populations becoming healthy enough to start reclaiming their former range.

There is currently a petition to have American Flamingo’s added to Florida protected species list and our State Research Director, Jerry Lorenz, is one of 5 biologists that make up the Biological Review Group that is evaluating the validity of that petition and who will make recommendations to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The final decision, however, lies with the Commission.

09/27/2019

09/26/2019

Yesterday you saw Jerry in the office and here he is in the field with a banded Spoonbill. Photo courtesy of Suzy Roebling

09/24/2019

Audubon's Everglades Science Center (ESC) was established in 1939 by National Audubon's first director of research, Robert Porter Allen. Allen began a full-time study of the Roseate Spoonbill, living among them in a tent for weeks at a time. His research changed how scientists studied birds and began 75 years of data investigating the spoonbill and its habitat. Continuing this important research as only the third director of research is Dr. Jerry Lorenz, who has worked at the Center for nearly 30 years. No wonder he is a renowned expert on spoonbills and Florida Bay!

09/09/2019