MAY MAGAZINE PREVIEW: May is for the birds ... learn more on Passport to Texas
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Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

Texas boasts a bevy of birding hot spots. And in the May issue of Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine ... you'll meet some of the fine feathered creatures that pass through our state.

Associate publisher, Charles Lohrmann ... 

Well. May is our birding issue and it's always popular. And it's a useful reference because we include a comprehensive calendar of birding events throughout the year. We have amazing articles. This one, particularly interesting to me is an article about migration by Noreen Damude. And she describes migration patterns as a complex labyrinth of trails that overlap and interweave. And to illustrate, she describes the migrations of eight different birds. And among them are long distance migrants like the Swainson's Hawk; and one particularly interesting example is the Evening Grosbeak, which she describes as 'irruptive, opportunistic wanderers,' because their arrival is completely unpredictable. And once you read this article, you'll never think of migration as a simple north-south line again. :46

Thanks Charles.

You can find the May issue of Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine on newsstands now. Or learn to subscribe when you visit passporttotexas.org.

That's our show ... Joel Block engineers our program in Austin at the Production Block studios ... For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti