We’re surrounded. These perky, red-billed, red-footed black-bellied whistling ducks— like cats—think they belong everywhere, it seems. They perch with their buddies on rooftops, fences
Author: M. Kathy Raines
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Relax, it’s not a cottonmouth. Those venomous water snakes, you’ll be pleased to know, live no further south than Corpus Christi. No, that long,
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Mouth agape, tongue sticking out and fur matted, the possum lay stiff and motionless. Its victor, a lab mix, grinned excitedly, but the dog, like
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Don’t let the name “softshell turtle” fool you. This oddly elegant creature, though toothless, can snake its neck under and over its shell and deliver
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“Shuffle your feet!” This is tried-and-true advice for those splashing in the surf. But if you forget—if you feel the searing pain of a
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New to the rigors of warbler identification—an exasperatingly large number of these charmers being yellow, adorned with varying patterns of black—I thrill to spotting, and