HIGH ISLAND: A unique migratory stopover ... details on 
Passport to Texas.

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife 

Located on the Bolivar Peninsula, High Island is migratory 
stopover habitat for neo-tropical birds.

I always tell people it's kind of like you go on vacation and you 
have to stop and get gas and get food, and it you can't stop you 
can't get where you're going. So, for these birds, stopover 
habitat like High Island is very important. :12

Winnie Burkett (burr-KET) is sanctuaries manager for 
Houston Audubon, and says the habitat on High Island -- 
which, by the way, isn't an island -- concentrates birds.

It's called High Island because it's the surface expression of a 
salt dome. High Island is 38 feet high, and it's the highest point 
between Mobile Bay and the Yucatan Peninsula. And, high 
habitat is not common on the coast, so we have woods where 
all around High Island is salt marsh. And that really 
concentrates the woodland birds here at High Island. :21 

Not only is High Island a great place for the birds, it's a 
great place for birders.

If they want to see a lot of different species, High island is a 
really great place for them to come, because they're all 
concentrated in one place. Where they'd have to travel all over, 
eastern north America to see the 28 varieties of warblers we get 
here. They can come here on a good day and see most of them. 
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We have more birding information at passporttotexas.org.

That's our show ... we had help today from Tom 
Harvey ... For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti. 







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