Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center
Description
The award-winning Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center lies within Pinellas County’s largest natural area, Brooker Creek Preserve, and is part of Parks and Conservation Resources. The Center supports the applied management and ecological monitoring objectives of the division through educational programming and volunteerism.
The Center provides a window into natural Florida through interpretive programs and hikes, educational instruction, exhibits and public outreach activities, presentations and workshops, and other events. Residents and visitors alike who are curious to learn more about the Preserve and its history can experience, discover and better understand the connections between people and the land through Center offerings.
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facebook.comWhen you are trying to work but turkeys keep walking by your window! The Florida wild turkeys (Mekeagris gallopavo) spend most of their time on the ground (though they are strong fliers) looking for food. These guys were eating insects, seeds, and leaves as they were walking by. Happy November!
Woods walk with Lara this morning! #treetalk #ourwildestplace
Explore our Florida forests with Lara tomorrow morning at 9am! 🐾🌳
Check out everything happening this November at your Preserve! 🦃
Another glorious Florida morning! #OurWilestPlace
Owl-O-Ween is in full swing until 3pm today! As you can see we REALLY love our Florida owls around here! Thank you to the Friends of Brooker Creek Preserve and Clearwater Audubon for sponosring this event!
Want to learn more about #bats in honor of #nationalbatweek? Check out our archived #wildlifewednesday webinar http://ow.ly/5Alo30g7mRw
Who who whoooo is ready for Owl-O-Ween tomorrow!?! We are!! 🦉
Two more days until Owl-O-Ween!!! 🦉
Dusky Pigmy Rattlesnakes (Sistrurus miliarius barbouri) spotted on the Ed Center Trail demonstrating some pre mating behavior!
Happy #batweek friends! There are many reasons to celebrate this fascinating flying mammal! A single #bat can eat its' body weight in insects (including mosquitoes) every night! This helps us and helps protect forests & food crops from pests. Bats are also important pollinators and seed dispersers as some species eat fruit, pollen, and nectar. This cool video of bats at dusk is from Scott Coulter at Half Moon Wildlife Management Area in Sumter County.
Look who slithered through the boardwalk- A Peninsula Ribbon Snake (thamnophis sauritus sackeni)!! This slender snake is related to garter snakes and is semiaquatic; feeding on frogs, salamanders, small fish, & insects. It's also ovoviviparous, (like our water snakes & pit vipers) meaning it gives birth to live young!
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