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Lights Out, Austin!
By Christy Esmahan, TAS Board Member It’s fall! Or, well, it’s September, I should say, even if “fall” remains an elusive concept here in Central Texas. Nonetheless, we…
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Starling Confessions
An Opinion Piece by David Cook I have an avian confession to make: over the past 3 months I have grown more fond of starlings. There, I said…
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Rare Bird Alert: August 21 – September 3
This is the Austin Area Rare Bird Alert. Last update on 9/3/20. Send interesting sightings, complete with species name, location, and contact information to Vincent O’Brien at
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Rare Bird Alert: August 7 – 20
This is the Austin Area Rare Bird Alert. Last update on 8/20/20. Send interesting sightings, complete with species name, location, and contact information to Vincent O’Brien at
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Book Review: The Thing With Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human by Noah Strycker
By Jeanette Larson, Travis Audubon Master Birder Strycker is often described as a “birder at large” and he has birded…
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August Bird Forecast
By: Kristen Currie What to watch for in August: Flashy-throated Hummingbirds and Other Migrants It might be a hard sell to get outside in the heat of August, but…
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Rare Bird Alert: July 7 – August 7
This is the Austin Area Rare Bird Alert. Last update on 8/7/20. Send interesting sightings, complete with species name, location, and contact information to Vincent O’Brien at
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Rare Bird Alert: July 5 – 24
This is the Austin Area Rare Bird Alert. Last update on 7/24/20. Send interesting sightings, complete with species name, location, and contact information to Vincent O’Brien at
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Stop Them from Dying
By Christy Esmahan, Ph.D. Last Thursday was a tough day. I got news that my brother-in-law, my cousin’s daughter and my son-in-law, all living in different cities, had…
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Geology of Blair Woods
By Mark Wilson Did you know that Blair Woods, our Travis Audubon urban nature preserve, is the site of an important historical spring? Coleman Springs, cited in…
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Filming a Hummingbird Nest
By Sachin Aggarwal My life is all about travel, and the COVID-19 pandemic brought a sudden halt to all my travel plans – Costa Rica, Botswana for work…
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Rare Bird Alert: June 23 – July 7
This is the Austin Area Rare Bird Alert. Last update on 7/7/20. Send interesting sightings, complete with species name, location, and contact information to Vincent O’Brien at
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A Bird Keeper’s Guide to Raising Backyard Chickens
By Chris Lesley For most people, unless they’re farmers, raising chickens is unlike any other animal keeping project they’ve ever undertaken, and the learning curve can be much…
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Admiring the Warblers
By Terry Banks We were all disappointed when our Birdathons had to be postponed because of COVID-19. We all understood, of course, and Travis Audubon took prompt action to keep us…
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The Lost Birds
By David Cook What do the following birds have in common? heron kingfisher lark magpie pelican raven starling stork thrush wren For children, these birds are all now lost from the language of the natural world via a linguistic…
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