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Missing seabirds spell trouble for snakes

May 27, 2016

On Seahorse Key, an island on Florida’s Gulf Coast, seabirds used to swoop into the water to pick up fish, and fly away while inadvertently dropping some on the ground for Florida cottonmouth snakes (Agkistrodon conanti) …

Birds Vanish Mysteriously from Florida’s Seahorse Key

July 21, 2015

In the blink of an eye, an island on Florida’s Gulf Coast that was once filled with the chattering of the largest long-standing colony of seabirds and water birds on the coast, Seahorse Key, became …