By Jesi Malowitz, Senior Development Associate, Houston Audubon July is here, and with it comes scorching Houston summers and a global movement to protect our environment: Plastic-Free July! Plastic pollution is a well-documented environmental crisis, especially here in Houston where, after a heavy rain, our bayous get inundated with plastic litter, bound for the ocean […]
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By Schyler Brown, Houston Audubon Conservation Specialist In 2000, the United Nations (UN) announced that the 22nd of May would be celebrated as the International Day for Biological Diversity. The significance of the proclamation was to celebrate the adoption of a framework intended to protect biological diversity across multiple levels of biological organization. So what […]
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By Grace Yaros, Houston Audubon Coastal Conservation Technician This Friday, May 17th marks a very special holiday– Endangered Species Day! Celebrated annually on the third Friday in May, Endangered Species Day was created to raise awareness about endangered species and the threats they’re facing, as well as to celebrate conservation efforts that have led to […]
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By Schyler Brown, Houston Audubon Conservation Specialist “Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching – even when doing the wrong thing is legal.” – Aldo Leopold I will not pretend for a second that I knew what the bird was. In fact, upon spotting it on our way out […]
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By Rachel Myers, Grace Yaros, Wyatt Egelhoff Spring has sprung on the Upper Texas Coast (UTC), bringing with it the return of our beach-nesting birds! From March through August, fencing is placed around the dunes and beaches where these birds raise their chicks to protect them from disturbance. Houston Audubon, American Bird Conservancy, and other […]
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By Schyler Brown, Houston Audubon Conservation Specialist To better understand and protect our birds, we have to look at their movement through habitats across broad landscapes. Typically, scientists do this by counting birds and surveying plants where the birds occur, but this takes a lot of time and money, and usually only covers a small […]
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By Schyler Brown, Houston Audubon Conservation Specialist Dr. Kelsey Biles and I (Schyler Brown) run a bird banding station as part of the Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (M.A.P.S) program. This program is a nationwide initiative to understand avian populations via bird banding and recapture data during the breeding season. To capture breeding birds, we […]
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By Schyler Brown, Conservation Specialist, Houston Audubon We at Houston Audubon want to say Happy International Cat Day! Many of us at Houston Audubon have pet cats and love them dearly. However, we are aware of a looming problem that involves cats… Let’s cut to the chase- cats are the number one cause for the […]
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By Amber Leung, Houston Audubon Staff Naturalist & Educator City Nature Challenge is an annual international bioblitz where cities engage in a friendly competition to see who can gather the most observations of nature, find the most species, and engage the most people. This is a 2-part event that starts with an observation period (April […]
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By Carrie Chapin and Jon Piasecki, Houston Audubon Coastal Conservation Technicians Today (Feb 2nd) is World Wetlands Day – a yearly celebration of wetlands and their important contributions to ecosystems and human society. Wetlands provide food and habitat for thousands of species, filter water, and capture runoff to prevent flooding. A wetland is any area […]
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