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As all hay-fever sufferers will tell you, this is a bad year for pollen. Is all that pollen good for anything besides making you miserable?

Although the American Bittern is by no means a rare bird, it's almost unknown to many birders.

West Texas is blessed - or is cursed - by two of the three species of grackles which are found in Texas.

For some birders, there is nothing more interesting to be seen while driving around looking for birds than to see predatory raptors working flocks of little birds

After an absence of nearly fifty years, black bears have been making a remarkable comeback in Big Bend National Park. Why did they return? And what's the outlook for the future of black bears in our region?

In the last forty years every town of any size has had at least one bird rehabilitator or animal rescue operation become part of the community.

Who hasn't spent a few lazy moments sitting by a pond or stream watching those lovely, gauzy-winged insects called "dragonflies" and "damselflies"? And we have all wondered if these beautiful creatures had descriptive common names or only multi-syllabled scientific ones.

Have you ever seen a mountain lion? Puma concolor has many names: puma, cougar, panther, painter, catamount and mountain lion. In Mexico it is known as "lepardo." By whatever name it is called, it is a handsome and extremely interesting member of our fauna.

Ladybugs are renowned as a good luck symbol and welcomed with open arms by gardeners. Why are these colorful insects worthy of such admiration?

Summer storms send many desert frogs and toads into a raucous reproductive frenzy. What role do their choruses play in their hasty courtship?