Wet South Florida winter puts rare Everglades sparrow in danger

What's good for the Everglades isn't always so good for one of its smallest and most threatened inhabitants: the Cape Sable seaside sparrow.

This winter, after record rain and water drained from Lake Okeechobee left conservation land to the north flooded, water managers opened flood gates into Everglades National Park for the first time in decades. Biologists celebrated the chance to see Everglades restoration in action. But the unseasonable rain, which also fell over the park, has made what should have been a good dry-season test run into a complicated balancing act, with water levels in critical sparrow grounds far too high heading into nesting season.

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