Category: Blogs
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The Pederson’s Cleaning Shrimp
When biology instructors teach taxonomy they delve into the how and why of classifying, or naming living things. At first glance this may be perceived as a simple task. It should be a straightforward task to tell one organism from another. In some cases, yes… in some cases, no.
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Spotlight on a Volunteer Opportunity
“Who knows what this is?” asks Eileen Mattei, Rio Grande Valley Chapter, Texas Master Naturalist, as she displays a raptor’s leg and talons to a group of grade school students at Estero Llano Grande State Park in Weslaco, on the last cold day (hopefully) of winter.
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A Striking Winter Visitor, the Ruddy Turnstone
This busy little fellow’s rust and black feathers blend so seamlessly with the quartz and feldspar crystals embedded in the granite of the jetties, one might miss the creature were it not for its bright orange legs, white underparts and dappled head.
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Eastern Fox Squirrels
Leaping from branch to branch, chasing one another and outwitting birdwatchers who try to block them from feeders, an expanding population of fox squirrels now thrives in the Rio Grande Valley.
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