A Northern Mockingbird is a medium-sized bird with a dark gray head and paler gray body with distinctive long, white tail feathers. You can find this songbird practically anywhere in Texas.

The Northern Mockingbird, Texas's state bird since 1927, contrasts sharply with the endangered Attwater Prairie Chicken, now down to 200 in the wild, best seen at the Houston refuge.

Here’s the Central Texas bird ... the eye, a gray head with whitish throat, greenish back, pale yellow flanks on an otherwise white breast and two white wingbars. Young birds have dark irises ...

Along with a multitude of insects, mammals and venomous creatures, there is an abundance of shorebirds that call South Texas home ... The blue-gray birds also feed on frogs, small mammals ...

gray-crested bird with a white belly, peach coloring on its flanks and a small black patch on its forehead. The tufted titmouse is a common sight among small winter groupings of chickadees ...

Here’s the Central Texas bird forecast for the month ... They both have black caps, bright white cheeks, and black bibs. Their backs are pale gray with whitish underparts.

Like many of our regular woodpeckers the sapsucker is a study in black, white ... small holes in tree bark to lap the sap that flows in with brushy-tipped tongues. Wintering birds in east Texas ...

Hummingbirds, the tiniest bird species, arrive in Texas ... gray, and blue feathers make this hummer easy to identify. While the different species showcase various colors, all hummingbirds are ...

“Yesterday I was in West Texas ... small size, the cattle tyrant shouldn’t be too hard to spot. The bird is covered mostly in canary-yellow feathers, with wings tinged gray and a bandit ...

Bushtits are another nickel-weight bird, weighing about a fifth of an ounce and having the appearance of a less-than-regulation size ping-pong ball of gray and ... cat a pretty small animal ...

The Texas patient's only symptom was eye inflammation, according to the state's health department. President Joe Biden has been briefed on the bird flu situation, White House spokeswoman Karine ...

Against the gray-green mesh of salt grass ... windy nights ahead at Surfside Beach, Texas. Over the next days, some large yellow and some small white wildflowers, which I could not name, emerged ...