Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) Family: Phalacrocoracidae By Charlie Ayers, Houston Audubon Coastal Conservation Technician This week’s Beak of the Week is the Neotropic Cormorant. When birding near any body of water, be on the lookout for this small, slim, nearly all black bird with a long tail, large webbed feet and a thin straight bill […]
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By Schyler Brown, Houston Audubon Conservation Specialist Besides humans, other animals need to travel in order to go places, see things, and enjoy an enriching life. It is true that some animals do not travel very far, like the Brown Tube Sponge (Agelas conifera) which, after attaching itself to the sea floor, spends most of […]
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By Gabriel Durham, Bird-Friendly Communities Program Manager This summer, Memorial City Plaza became the first multi-story major commercial building in Houston to work with Houston Audubon to install window film to prevent bird collisions! This accomplishment is a big step forward in making Houston more Bird-Friendly and is a testament to how small connections can […]
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By Grace Yaros, Houston Audubon Coastal Conservation Technician Summer is heating up– as is the 2024 beach-nesting bird season! The first Wilson’s Plover nest of the season was discovered at San Luis Pass on April 16th, and the birds have been keeping busy ever since! So far this season, a total of 20 Wilson’s Plover […]
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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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