Florida Wildlife Calendar - February

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February

Purple martins scouts look over North Florida nesting sites. Make sure houses are up!
Trilliums and dogtooth violets bloom in Panhandle ravines.
Clean and repair eastern bluebird nest boxes.
Greater sandhill cranes migrate from Florida northward to Michigan and Wisconsin.

Purple finches and pine siskins will leave our north Florida feeders and begin their migration back to northern nesting areas.

Bald cypress trees leaf out in Big Cypress Swamp.

Nesting season begins for ospreys in north Florida.
Wood storks nesting in Corkscrew Swamp.
Watch for manatees in spring runs.

Snowy plovers start nesting.

Sooty terns nesting in the Dry Tortugas.

Wild turkeys and quail mate in south Florida.

Magnificent frigatebirds begin nesting in the Dry Tortugas.

Woodcocks begin courtship behavior in north Florida.

Woodpeckers begin their mating season and announce territories by drumming on houses, telephone poles and other objects.

Eastern moles are breeding this month in tunnels under our lawns.

Pocket gophers begin their spring breeding season.

First litters of gray squirrels born

Striped skunks begin their breeding season.

Bear cubs born in dens this month.

Deer fawns born in south Florida.

Schools of Spanish mackerel roam Florida Bay.

Black crappie and s triped bass are spawning.

American crocodiles begin mating, followed by nesting in April.

Leatherback sea turtles begin nesting on sandy beaches along the southeast coast.

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