Florida drought put pressure on key indicator of Everglades' health

Florida’s long-running drought has placed further pressure on the already-imperiled wading birds of the Everglades.

Shauna Sayers, a wading bird research specialist with the National Audubon Society, helps monitor populations of birds throughout Florida Bay, a shallow lagoon partially located within Everglades National Park. Sayers’s team tracks roseate spoonbills, among other birds, and said that they’re indicator species — “if they’re doing poorly, the Everglades is also doing poorly."

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