ATTRACT BIRDS: Become a backyard birder ... We'll tell you 
how on Passport to Texas.

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

Birding is a year-round activity in Texas that's growing in 
popularity among all age groups. The wide variety of 
species found here keeps it interesting. 

Texas is Mecca for birders around the world because we are on 
the migration flyway for the entire Western hemisphere. :08
 
Valerie Staats is Executive Director of the Travis Audubon 
Society. She says birds have very simple needs. 

Birds need food, shelter, water, and a place to raise their young. 
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Ms. Staats offer a few simple ways to entice a wide range 
of bird life into your neighborhood.

In the ideal world if you want to bring birds to your backyard, 
you're going to have several feeders offering different types of 
food. Have water available- if anything, that's more important 
than food. The water alone will bring a lot of birds to the 
backyard. One thing that people often forget is that the birds 
need a shelter, and by that I don't mean a home per se, but a way 
to be protected from their predators while they're enjoying what 
you're offering in the backyard. :28
 
Interested in birding? You can find everything you need 
to get started on the Texas Parks & Wildlife website. 

That's our show for today ... thank you for joining us ... we 
had research and writing help from Loren Seeger ... and 
our show is engineered by Joel Block at the Production 
Block Studios ... 

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