Tonight, February 12, on PBS -- Wild Florida

During the 2018 nesting season, the Avian Research and Conservation Institute (the featured program for Friends Annual Meeting in two weeks)  worked with a dedicated BBC film crew on a new addition to their Florida Wildlife series (which airs in the U. S. on PBS Nature), this time featuring Swallow-tailed Kites.  They were particularly interested in describing this species’ dramatic pre-migration communal roosting behavior, the national population monitoring program ARCI has built around this incredible phenomenon, and the importance of protecting the kites at these critical sites, including the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge. 

Dr. Gina Kent and Dr. Ken Meyer have not seen the resulting piece, so we can all see it revealed together, tonight.  Gina says it will most likely be 10 minutes of kites or less.  There's a chance there are behind the scenes interviews at the end, so keep watching :)
Here is a trailer with a brief description of the program:
https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/florida/2020/02/04/florida-pbs-show-focuses-nature-wild-animals-gators-pythons-manatee/4649916002/