They can fly for miles and when caught, turn out to be mostly wings. We also have the "obscure bird grasshopper" that enjoys our okra and hibiscus, but, as the name implies, they fly to the tops ...

Last summer the biggest grasshopper I’ve ever seen in my life flew into my pollinator garden while I was weeding. My bug book taught me her wonderful name: obscure bird grasshopper. She studied ...

The Florida grasshopper sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum floridanus) was first described in 1902 by a U.S. Army surgeon, Major Edgar A. Mearns. Back then the birds were widespread across central and ...

Get ready to say goodbye to Florida's rarest bird, the grasshopper sparrow. Federal officials say 2018 is the year we'll learn whether the species will disappear from the wild. The odds are not ...

It’s a drab little bird — a brown sparrow, not even five inches long, that you wouldn’t give a second glance if it happened to hop across your path. The Florida grasshopper sparrow might be ...

The first release of the grasshopper sparrow was in May of 2019 and the FWC said they have seen a steady increase in the population by 84%. In 2020, biologists discovered the released birds were ...