Marine Discovery Center to start off birding excursions in January

Marine Discovery Center to start off birding excursions in January

Marine Discovery Center to start off birding excursions in January

For enthusiastic chook watchers enthusiastic to witness migratory birds passing as a result of Central Florida on their way to Arctic nesting grounds, the Maritime Discovery Centre in New Smyrna Beach can aid you out.

And whilst coronavirus regulations will alter the common run of items, Lisa Mickey, lead naturalist and spokesperson for the discovery centre, said the center’s winter birding tours will commence Jan. 14 and repeat after a month until eventually April. The a few other tours choose place on Feb. 11, March 11 and April 15, with each and every long lasting final three hours.

The tours will commence with a trip from the North Causeway dock in New Smyrna Beach front to Disappearing Island, wherever birders can wander the shores to perspective species these as red knots and black skimmers, as perfectly as unique types of plovers and sandpipers only observed through the winter season.