If you plan a trip to Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge this weekend, take mosquito repellent and maybe flippers. Historic late March rainfall of over 20 inches in two days dumped nearly a year ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department announced the opening of its 83rd paddling trail, this time coming to land near the ...

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2—PORT O'CONNOR — Texas Parks and Wildlife Department ... It's a protected marsh with lots of birds that include spoonbills, herons, egrets, osprey and maybe even a rail.

The classic signs of spring have been appearing for weeks across the South and are gradually inching northward.

“Only little chunks of the country have had an early season,” she said, while places like Texas and North ... as the arrival of great egrets and great blue herons,” he said.

Travelers in Texas looking for a lonely stretch ... they can spot the threatened reddish egret, roseate spoonbills, and great ...

asked biologist Clay Green, who researches herons at Texas State University ... You can get a sense of that ratio by comparing a Snowy Egret—all egrets are taxonomically herons, by the way—to, say, a ...