Tiny hummers and tall whoopers Goose Island State Park, on the southern tip of the Lamar Peninsula, is renowned for migrant land birds “falling from the sky” during their spring migration to all points north. This area of the Central Flyway is also where you can find wintering grounds for the whooping crane, and catch […]
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Specialty birds of the northeastern Texas forests Atlanta State Park, at 1,475 acres, sits in the most forested area of the state of Texas. Known as the “Pineywoods” to locals, this diverse ecoregion supports 353 bird species (57 percent of the state’s total) with documented nesting for 132 of those species. Habitats of hardwood and
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Rare birds, prehistoric times, outlaw legends, and dance halls! Where can birders glimpse rare species, stand in the belly of million-year-old geology, hear tales of Civil War gunpowder caches and outlaw treasures, and listen to music from a 1920s dance hall? Longhorn Cavern State Park on and under the Edwards Plateau region of Central Texas
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Millions of us who love birds know at least a bit about John James Audubon, perhaps the greatest birder of them all, and most of us are familiar with the Audubon Society, one of our leading national conservation organizations. Strange, then, that relatively few folks have visited or even heard about Audubon State Park in
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