Megan Hobratschk Have you ever wondered why some birds are so colorful compared to others? The color of a bird’s feathers is determined by structural elements and/or pigmentation, which are …
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By Caleb Clarkson Around this time of year, when high Texas temperatures finally break into pleasant breezes of somewhat autumnal air, large, ominous flocks of black birds descend on the …
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By Kayla Pringle Every autumn, the skies above Galveston Bay transform into a highway for migrating raptors, and one of the best places to witness this spectacle is the Smith …
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By Celeste Silling If you have never seen a Purple Gallinule, now is the perfect time to visit Brazos Bend State Park to see one. The boardwalk at the State …
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By Kayla PringleThe history of duck hunting in North America is a reminder of how human activity can both endanger wildlife and protect it. What began as unregulated hunting nearly …
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By Hannah Beckett There is a singer everyone has heard,Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again… “The Oven Bird”, a 1916 poem by …
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By Rebecca Bracken The thought of running into a liger in the wild might make you want to click your heels three times and go home, but meeting a liger …
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Megan Hobratschk One of the most interesting topics discussed in my Ornithology class was about the “con artists” found in nature… Brood parasitism occurs when a female bird (the parasite) …
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By Megan Hobratschk Megan Hobratschk is a biology intern at Gulf Coast Bird Observatory, a non-profit organization dedicated to saving the birds and their habitats along the entire Gulf Coast …
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By Celeste Silling Here at Gulf Coast Bird Observatory, we are getting ready for our annual Xtreme Hummingbird Xtravaganza on September 13th and 20th. The fall Ruby-throated Hummingbird migration has …
