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Is it time yet? When to hang your hummingbird feeder
When to put the hummingbird feeder up? This question is well debated. Some suggest that if you are willing to maintain the feeder, leave it up all year. There…
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Rare Bird Alert: February 16, 2017
This is the Austin Area Rare Bird Alert and has been updated through 2/16/2017. To report rare or unusual bird sightings in the Austin area, provide recent sighting…
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De-list the Black-capped Vireo? Travis Audubon says no.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed removing the Black-capped Vireo from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. Travis Audubon has filed an official comment with the…
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Massive Robin Flocks in Austin
The past few weeks we’ve received many calls about large numbers of reddish hued birds flying around the eastern and north eastern parts of Austin. Some flocks consist of…
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Bird of the Week: Ringed Kingfisher
Ringed Kingfisher Once excluded from American field guides entirely, the Ringed Kingfisher is now a regular, if rare, visitor to central Texas. Common in Central and South America, the Ringed…
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Bird Outreach
Travis Audubon Member Doug Tabony has been doing an incredible job educating his neighbors about the sights and sounds of backyard birds! He developed an interactive bird education page…
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Texas Naturalist’s Notes By Bill Reiner
From the Archives This article originally appeared in the Travis Audubon Newsletter in 2005. Photos by Jim deVries. On a cold, cloudy January afternoon, the open prairie seems lifeless. To the…
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Prescribed Fire at Commons Ford Park
On February 9th, the Austin Fire Department Wildfire Division, Austin PARD, CE-Bar Fire and Lake Travis Fire Rescue Wildfire conducted a prescribed burn in the Commons Ford Park Prairie…
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Master Birders Graduate!
Travis Audubon graduated its first enthusiastic class of Master Birders last month! Thirty students explored the world of birds, bird anatomy and habitat through eight classroom sessions and a…
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February Bird Forecast: Songs, Valentine Cardinals, and a Colorful Warbler
Early Sounds of Spring By now you probably know that some high-achieving Purple Martin adult males begin arriving in Austin in early February, back from their wintering grounds in South…
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Bird of the Week: Loggerhead Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike Little in the Loggerhead Shrike’s appearance, apart perhaps from its sharply hooked beak, suggests a violent nature. Yet this unassuming songbird has the appetite of a raptor, along…
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Superb Owl
Miss the Super Bowl? What about the Superb Owl? Alan Taylor of The Atlantic, created a photographic essay celebrating a few international owls! Not Falcons (nor Patriots), these superb owls…
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Claude’s River Survey: February 4, 2017
Big Webberville to Howard Lane, Bastrop, Texas, USFeb 4, 2017 9:15 AM – 2:45 PMProtocol: Traveling9.0 mile(s) Comments: EPISODE 129: ON A COLD AND…
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Baker Sanctuary 2016 Year in Review
The article below represents an abridged version of the “Baker Sanctuary 2016 Year in Review” by Chris Murray, Land Manager and Educator at Travis Audubon.
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Rare Bird Alert: February 3, 2017
This is the Austin Area Rare Bird Alert and has been updated through 2/3/2017. To report rare or unusual bird sightings in the Austin area, provide recent sighting…
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