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Like the canary in a coal mine, Roseate Spoonbills are letting us know that there is something drastically wrong with our environment, and continued runaway development will not only ruin our remaining natural areas but our lifestyles as well. However, this pink canary is still healthy enough to recover and the hope is that Everglades restoration efforts will reverse the downward trend. For this reason, spoonbills have been widely accepted as a key indicator species by which the health of Florida Bay and the greater Everglades landscape will be gauged. In a new program in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey and Everglades National Park, Dr. Jerry Lorenz and staff at Audubon's Tavernier Science Center, have begun a banding program to monitor the progress of spoonbills nesting throughout Florida.
