By Rebecca Bracken One night, several years ago, I heard what sounded like a horse neighing. Being in the suburbs at the time, I knew it wasn’t a horse, but …
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By Julia Juarez It’s hurricane season, that time of the year where Texas weather can be all over the place and can change in an instant. In the past months, …
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By Celeste Silling Ruby-throated Hummingbird migration has begun and we’ve been seeing them regularly at the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory, visiting our feeders. If you enjoy putting out sugar water …
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By: Lauren Ahlstrom Radio telemetry has been used by wildlife conservationists for many years to track the movements and behaviors of wildlife from a distance. The most common radio telemetry …
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By Ruth Ann Ruiz Features Editor If you are wandering about the dolphin fund raiser at Jamaica Bach last weekend, the needed funds were raised. Heidi Whitehead Executive Director of …
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Written by Ruth Ann Ruiz Features Editor Marilyn Harris, a Texas native, has been living in Galveston since 2007 and has lived in her current house since 2014. You could …
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By Kayla Pringle Kayla Pringle is the Education Assistant at the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory. The GCBO is a non-profit organization dedicated to saving the birds and their habitats along …
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The opportunity to experience local wildlife is one of the many alluring features of spending time in the great outdoors. Unfortunately, wildlife is being threatened in many parts of the …
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By Celeste Silling One of the animals we see most often in cities and towns here in Texas is the squirrel. While many people regard squirrels as pests, many others, …
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By Rebecca Bracken You are the dancing queen…or dancing bee? Have you ever seen a bee shimmy and shake, and walk in a figure eight? There’s a name for that …
