JUNE BIRDS: Summer's here ... time to introduce the family 
to birding ... on Passport to Texas
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Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

What's wonderful about Texas?

The wonderful thing about Texas is that someplace in the state 
- all the time - there's something wonderful going on. :06

Especially when it comes to birding. Madge Lindsay, 
executive director of Audubon Mississippi, was 
instrumental in creating the Great Texas Birding Trail 
when she worked for Texas Parks and Wildlife. She says 
June in Texas offers myriad birding opportunities.

In June you've got a lot of neo-tropical migratory birds in the 
state breeding. And these are the birds that come winter in 
Mexico and Central America and they come up in the summer 
and they breed in the woodlands and the habitats and then they 
return in the fall and winter. :14

A family birding adventure is easy and inexpensive. 

If a family got their children out with some binoculars and a 
field guide , and went to a state park, and went out early in the 
morning and just listened to the dawn chorus; just stopped to 
listen what's going on out there, and heard the birds 
singing ... That's the best place to start. :15

To find state park birding opportunities near you -- log 
onto the Texas Parks and Wildlife Website. 

That's our show for today ... thank you for joining us ... Joel 
Block engineers our program.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.