June 2023 Killdeer By Stephanie Boyd Killdeer are small shorebirds who do not, in fact, kill deer. Their name is a reference to the sound of... Read More
May 2023 Purple Storm Snail By Stephanie Boyd Janthinidae are a family of holoplanktonic sea snails (they live in the water column for their entire life cycle and... Read More
April 2023 Brittle Stars By Stephanie Boyd With over 2000 described species, Ophiuroidea is the largest class of living echinoderms, found in all oceans from intertidal to... Read More
March 2023 Bridled Tern By Stephanie Boyd Bridled terns are medium-sized tropical terns, with long, slender wings and a deeply forked tail. They reach a little over... Read More
February 2023 Humpback Whale By Stephanie Boyd "We sent whalesong into interstellar space because the creatures that sing these songs are superlative beings that fill us with... Read More
January 2023 Common Loon By Stephanie Boyd "The woodland lakes would be solitudes, indeed, did they lack the finishing touch to make the picture complete – the... Read More
January 2023 2022 Fishing in Review – Still Rebuilding By Stephanie Boyd For many years my January article has been a detailed month-by-month review of the previous year’s fishing along with some... Read More
December 2022 Gulf Stone Crab By Stephanie Boyd The species of stone crab local to the Texas coast is the Gulf stone crab, Menippe adina. It is very... Read More
November 2022 Anhinga By Stephanie Boyd Gliding just beneath the surface of the water, at first glance, it appears to be a snake. But upon closer... Read More
October 2022 Lesser Electric Ray By Stephanie Boyd You’ve done the Stingray Shuffle, but what about the Electric Slide?~Padre Island National Seashore Facebook Every regular beachgoer in Texas... Read More