Author: Erika Zambello

Erika Zambello is a writer, birder, and photographer living and working along the Emerald Coast of Florida. She has a master’s degree in environmental management, where she specialized in ecosystem science and conservation. Her love of the outdoors was inspired by a childhood in Maine, where she returned for her National Geographic Young Explorer grant. In addition to Maine, she has lived in New York, France, Washington, DC, and North Carolina. Erika believes in the power of communicating conservation and exploration, which was the inspiration for One World, Two Feet.

Emerald Coasting – Sea Turtles on the Beaches of the Emerald Coast

I arrived at Okaloosa Island’s Public Beach Access #7 at 9 a.m., quickly grabbing my camera and hurrying to the beach. A crowd had already formed on the sugar-sand, lined up behind ticker-tape and creating a large “V” out into the Gulf of Mexico. We were waiting for the sea turtles. Read the rest here!

Birding Maine – Tiny Songbirds at Great Salt Bay

Our next road-trip stop was at a local nature area, the Great Salt Bay Farm &Heritage Center, with trails that wound though a field and led straight to the bay. Mom had to take a business call in the car, so Dad and I re-bundled up and took to the deserted trailways. Read more at…

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