Conservation

The Amazing Caracara This is a bird I’ve never had the good fortune to see even though their range is limited to Texas, Arizona and...

How Many Birds Can You See in Polk County? Audubon CBC Knows Binoculars and maps at the ready, teams and solo Piney Wood Lakes Texas...

Bald Eagles Bald eagles are very distinctive with their white head and tail feathers and dark brown feathers covering the rest of their body.  They...

Wintertime Bird Feeding The infamous February 2021 freeze, Storm Uri, left an enormous percentage of East Texans without power and water for several days.  It...

Why Does My Night Owl Think It’s an Early Bird? We’ve all heard the expressions “night owl” and “early bird”.  Most of the wildlife animals...

Top 10 Social Media Posts of 2021 2021 has been a great year of social media! Thanks to social media and our well-connected world, SJRA was...

TEAMWORK LESSONS FROM GEESE Look up in the sky. It’s a bird, it’s a plane. No, it’s Canadian geese flying south in their iconic “v”...

6 Useful Christmas Tree Disposal Ideas   There’s just something extra special about getting and caring for a real Christmas tree for the holidays rather than...

Zebra mussels are freshwater mollusks native to Eastern Europe that were first introduced into the U.S. in the 1980’s through the Great Lakes system. ...

Crows- The Guardians of the Galaxy You see and hear them everywhere.  The American Crow thrives with gusto in cities, neighborhoods, farmers’ fields, and vast...