Like no-nonsense lifeguards perched along a shoreline, Harris’s hawks scrutinize grasslands from multi-tiered poles and brush piles along the Brownsville Historic Battlefield Trail of an evening—sometimes two or three raptors to a pole.
Tag: Creatures Among Us
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Its vigorous, automatic rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat startled me when it first appeared. Whose cell phone? What alert is that? Then this creature — hitting his stride, hammering
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From the honey-colored fields of the bike trail, I first hear its piping, plaintive call, rather like a kitten’s persistent mewing. Then I see it
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—Texas’ official state small mammal Mirroring traits of the quintessential Texan, the nine-banded armadillo is “a hardy, pioneering creature,” one possessing “deep respect and
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Painted buntings don’t know about the coronavirus. Oblivious to our fears and “shelter in place” orders, they, along with other exhausted, migrating birds, are
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What a large, peculiar-looking cormorant! I thought, spotting an anhinga on a branch overhanging a resaca at the Gladys Porter Zoo last November. A youth