Rare 'fancy-looking' Northern Jacana bird spotted at Texas wildlife refuge

A water bird any avid birder would like to check off their list was recently spotted at the Santa Ana National Wildlife ...

Once vanished from Texas, species makes a surprise return

A tropical waterbird rarely seen in the U.S. made a surprise appearance at Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge this week, sending a ripple of excitement through the Texas birding community.
San Antonio Current

Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge

A federal judge has cleared surveyors working on President Trump’s border wall to enter disputed land adjacent a South Texas wildlife refuge given congressional protection from the project. Following ...

Rare bird sightings are on the rise in Texas-but why?

The sudden burst of rare sightings has drawn attention and speculation. Are more rare birds actually arriving in Texas, or ...
LAist

Border Wall Threatens National Wildlife Refuge That's Been 40 Years In The Making

Over the past 41 years, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been buying up land on the lower Texas-Mexico border to protect one of the most biologically diverse regions in North America from ...
WESA

Specs For Border Wall Show It Would Divide Texas Wildlife Refuge

The South Texas borderlands get a lot of bad press as the site of illegal immigration, drug smuggling, occasional cartel mayhem. That's how the president sells the border wall. What many people don't ...
WISH-TV

Desolate wildlife refuge slated for border wall in South Texas

ARROYO RAMIREZ WILDLIFE REFUGE TRACT, STARR COUNTY, Texas (BorderReport.com) ⁠— Deep in the heart of South Texas in a rural and hard-to-find wildlife refuge in western Starr County, the Trump ...