 A habitat restoration project along Pensacola Bay, Project Greenshores, a habitat-restoration project along downtown Pensacola's waterfront, attracts large numbers of waterbirds, gulls, tern, and cormorants. Sometimes more than 300 are seen at one time!
Just beside it, the Hawkshaw Lagoon Memorial Park features the only national memorial to missing children in the country and serves as an open classroom for students to study the lagoon's ecosystem, and is also an excellent vantage point for birdwatching.
Mix a little bird watching with your round of golf at Lost Key Golf Club on Perdido Key Beach, a designated Audoubon Signatue Cooperative Sancturary Golf Course.
Read our Migrating Birds and Butterflies blog post here
The Pensacola Beach Fishing Pier is another easily accessible birding "hot spot" to see gannets, loons and migrating ducks.
Avian Alley at The ZOO is a walk-through exhibit that provides visitors an interactive experience with birds, including ibis, spoonbills, hammerkops and curasows
The Nature Conservancy designated the Florida Panhandle as a national hot spot for biodiversity in plant and animal life. Birders flock to areas such as the Blackwater River State Forest, Fort Pickens and Naval Live Oak Preserve to view local and migratory birds such as osprey, herons, red-cockaded woodpeckers, Bachman's Sparrow, warblers and tanagers.
Perdido Key Beach, a barrier island home to Johnson's Beach National Seashore and one mile form the start of the Alabama Coastal Birding Trail, is a great place to spend some time on the beach and the bay. Enjoy birding form the comfort of your RV at Perdido Cove.
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