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The Great Backyard Bird Count is an inter-organizational effort between the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, National Audubon Society, and Birds Canada. Details

Rudy talks about the apparent decline of the snake populations in the state.

Thank you to Lizzy N for making this spotter sheet for the Friends of Railway Fields. Some are a little harder to find than others. Good luck! Will post sheet…

5 Feb 2021 INCREASING NUMBERS: Otters are a regular sight along the Tees in Barnard Castle Pic: Peter Cairns/ 2020VISION Nature Notes with Dave Moore CONTINUING my optimistic outlook on the state of Britain’s wildlife, otters have now returned to our river systems. Did you know it took until the late 1970s for the vile sport of otter hunting to be banned? They had been persecuted for their fur and to protect river stocks and they were also affected by the heavy use of the pesticide dieldr...

The common names of the Coreidae vary regionally. Leaf-footed bug refers to leaf-like expansions on the legs of some species, generally on the hind tibiae.

As you take your permitted exercise walk around Railway Fields this week, keep your eyes open for these four things. First of all, as soon as you go through th…

In Presidio County, Archeologists Document the Ancient Architecture of Warfare Originally broadcast on January 21, 2021 By Andrew Stuart photograph by Chris Hillen. Center for Big Bend Studies Director Bryon Schroeder at left. At right, Nature Notes producer Drew Stuart crouches behind one of the stone “bastions” found atop mesas in southern Presidio County. Our region’s Native American legacy endures in communities and living cultural traditions – and in countless ...

Wisteria sinensis, commonly known as the Chinese wisteria, is a species of flowering plant in the pea family, native to China, in the provinces of Guangxi,

Rudy shares a tip about a good book for fossil hunters on the Atlantic coast and the Gulf Coast.

Trichonephila clavipes (formerly known as Nephila clavipes), commonly known as the golden silk orb-weaver, golden silk spider, or banana spider, is an orb