Outdoors & Nature Insider

Here's a new feature on the Great Florida Birding Trail website that will help you plan out your next outing.  It's a Google Map-powered interactive search that you can use to build a custom trip based on the species you are looking for, location amenities and habitat. Cool! I love maps, and I'm always building custom maps with specific information about wildlife, such as where to find certain trees or trail information. Thanks to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, I have a new source for gathering data on birding!

If you have ever spent any time digging through brochures, magazine articles and scouring the internet for the information you need on a certain birding location, then you know how helpful this new tool will be. It's sure to save me a lot of headaches!

I encourage everyone to check it out and use it to help find new birding destinations or locate a particular species. Here's the link to the new feature: http://floridabirdingtrail.com/birdtrip - make sure to bookmark it. It will be a site that you'll be frequently visiting!