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Nov 2, 2022 · He died on September 26, 2022 and will be deeply missed and fondly remembered by hundreds of students, friends, colleagues, family and especially by his life-partner Noreen Damude. Bob was, above all, a scientist. He was also a serious conservationist.
- Broad-Tailed Hummingbird
This is the Austin Area Rare Bird Alert and has been updated...
- Purple Martin
Purple Martin These beautiful birds (more blue-black than...
- Calliope Hummingbird
This is the Austin Area Rare Bird Alert and has been updated...
- Broad-Tailed Hummingbird
- Mapping The Lesser-Known Birding Hot Spots Along The Upper Texas Coast.
- Using The Map to A Pirates’ Bounty Full of Birds
- On The Trail Again
- Half The Fun Is Getting There
- Yacht Basin Road, Stop No. 57: Coastal Labyrinths Produce Great ‘Tern-Outs’
- Rollover Pass, Stop No. 56: Gulf Beach and Bay A Stone’s Throw Away
- White Memorial Park, Stop No. 42: and Now, An Enchanted Little Forest
- Secret Sharers: The Birds We Find Along The Way
For as long as I can remember, maps, secret or otherwise, have captured my imagination. Who can forget those spellbinding tales of high adventure, cryptic diagrams, lost islands and hidden treasure we read as children? Edgar Allan Poe’s The Gold Bug and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, replete with wily buccaneers and buried chests of gold...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department offers three color-coded maps visitors can use to navigate the interconnecting byways of the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail. Colorful and informative, they provide a fail-safe Ariadne’s thread to lead expert and novice alike to the richest and most productive birding sites along the coast. But unlike the m...
April 20 clips spring migration at its peak along the upper Texas coast. High Island, Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge and Bolivar Flats are a must, of course, but that story has oft been told. Instead, we highlight three lesser-known stops along the trail — Yacht Basin Road, Rollover Pass and White Memorial Park. Hurricane Ike blew through this ar...
Our quest begins well before dawn in the town of Winnie. Even the darkness moves with the passage of birds. Before the swell of traffic noise, we pause awhile to listen. High above, we recognize the rich, rolling trills of upland sandpipers and the muttering of other shorebirds as they wing their way invisibly to northern breeding grounds. Driving ...
Though only a half-mile long, Yacht Basin Road cuts through grassy fields, cordgrass marshes, tidally inundated salt marshes and gravel dredge spoils, coming to a dead-end at the boat launch on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. This stop can be amazingly productive. Our hope is to add a few classic skulkers, otherwise difficult to ferret out, all des...
Rollover Pass is a man-made cut through the Bolivar Peninsula, linking the East Bay to the Gulf Coast. Working both sides may deliver a corsair’s bounty of birds, but much depends on the level of the tides and luck. At low tide, extensive tidal mudflats host many hundreds of foraging and roosting gulls, terns, pelicans, herons and egrets. We watch ...
We always try to save White Memorial Park for dessert. It’s a palate cleanser par excellence. After a dizzying surfeit of shorebirds, marsh birds and water birds of every stripe, this little-known gem of a country park is like stepping into a different world. We feel at once sheltered and enclosed, almost dwarfed by the rich stands of pine, sweetgu...
When the world seems too much with us and we feel we’ve lost our way, recapturing the thrill of childhood adventures does much to heal the soul. Every year, we plan a springtime journey to the coast, our trusty birding map in hand, in search of avian treasure. The joy and solace of such a quest for birds — aloft, hidden in plain sight or merely hea...
The United States Shorebird Conservation Plan is a partnership effort of state and ... BY STEPHEN BROWN, CATHERINE HICKEY, ... USFWS, and Noreen Damude, National ...
Feb 20, 1999 · Scott talks with Noreen Damude, Director of Bird Conservation for the Texas Audubon Society. The Texas Audubon Society is auctioning of the right to name a newly discovered species of bird to...
Central Plains / Playa Lakes Regional Shorebird Conservation Plan Version 1.0 Written by: Suzanne Fellows, Kelli Stone, Stephanie Jones, Noreen Damude, Stephen Brown
August 2010. Whooping Cranes Prove to be Tough Survivors. With grace, stamina and charisma, the whooping crane has shown an extraordinary ability to survive. By Noreen Damude. What does the 3-D blockbuster film Avatar, with its lush reimagining of Edenic nature on an alien moon, have to do with the whooping crane?
Mar 5, 1999 · “We’ve had a few nibbles from the rich and famous but we’re not at liberty to say anything about them,” said Noreen Damude, director of bird conservation at the Texas Audubon Society, which...
