Great Texas Wildlife Trails

02/04/2025

Spring is the perfect time for birding in Texas! Gather a few friends and form a team to participate in this year's Great Texas Birding Classic. Beginners and experts welcome - there's a tournament category for everyone!

Birding Classic registration is now open! Gather your friends, colleagues, or just your best birding pals and put together a team for the 29th Annual Birding Classic. You can bird anywhere in the state, for a half day, full day, or even all week! Funds raised support birds and birding here in Texas, so you'll be supporting a great cause.
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/TXPWD/bulletins/3cfd154

All participants receive their very own 2025 t-shirt with this year's awesome artwork by artist Laura Wolf as well. That's worth the cost of registration all on its own! Supporting birds: bonus!

01/16/2025

Congratulations to the 5 new Bird City Texas-certified communities, as well as the first High Flyer! Did you know that Texas now has 15 cities that have been certified in this prestigious program? Each of these communities is putting actions in place in three key categories: community engagement, habitat enhancement and creating safer spaces for birds.
https://tpwd.texas.gov/newsmedia/releases/?req=20250116a

11/10/2024

If you’re at the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival, stop by the TPWD booth and say howdy! From park superintendents to volunteers to the Wildlife Trails coordinator, we have all kinds of people available to answer your questions.

10/19/2024

It was an honor to attend yesterday’s ribbon cutting for the new Joan & Scott Holt Paradise Pond expansion. The pond is looking wonderful and the new native landscaping is already attracting great birds. Next time you’re in the Coastal Bend, be sure to check it out! (site CTC 057B on the Central Coast trail map: https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wildlife/wildlife-trails/ctc/mustang-island-loop).

10/10/2024

Who's buzzing with excitement over the Texas Pollinator BioBlitz kick-off tomorrow? Be sure to follow along with the Facebook event for daily challenges, Facebook live events with urban biologists around the state, and more!

Search for butterflies, moths, bees and other pollinators during the Texas Pollinator BioBlitz each fall! Snap a picture, tag it on social med...

08/31/2024

Would you like more information on where to go to view wildlife here in Texas? Sign up to learn more about wildlife viewing locations, what wildlife you can see during different times of the year, and more: https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/TXPWD/subscriber/new?topic_id=TXPWD_59

08/30/2024

Did you know that all state parks are sites along the Great Texas Wildlife Trails? And they offer awesome programs year-round, such as this sounds of the night presentation at Lake Mineral Wells State Park & Trailway - Texas Parks and Wildlife (site PPWW 112 on the Prairies and Pineywoods West Wildlife Trail: https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wildlife/wildlife-trails/ppww/palo-pinto-loop).

🦉🐺🦫Nature is full of strange sounds...when you stop to listen.
Some are downright unsettling until you know what they are.

Join Park Interpreter David Owens for a little game of WHAT'S THAT SOUND and learn about the language of nature here in the park.

Lone Star Amphitheater
Saturday, August 31st | 8:30pm

Program is free with your park entrance fee

08/28/2024

It’s hot out there, making going to see a bat flight at dusk a great summer viewing opportunity! Last night’s emergence at site HOTW 080: Old Tunnel State Park - Texas Parks and Wildlife was perfect. We had a gorgeous Hill Country sunset, cooler weather, and about 3 million Mexican free-tailed bats making the night spectacular.

https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wildlife/wildlife-trails/hotw/peach-loop

08/09/2024

Save the date for the 2024 Texas Pollinator BioBlitz! Find more information here:

Texas Pollinator BioBlitz 2024: Save the Date! Texas Parks and Wildlife Department sent this bulletin at 08/09/2024 08:49 AM CDT View as a Webpage Texas Pollinator BioBlitz is Back this Fall! Texas Pollinator BioBlitz Information The 9th Annual Texas Pollinator BioBlitz returns in October. Mark your...

04/27/2024

Did you know that the 4th Saturday in April is Texas Wildflower Day? Love this message from the I-20 Wildlife Preserve & Jenna Welch Nature Study Center (Site FWTX 055) celebrating the day!

Find site FWTX 055 at https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wildlife/wildlife-trails/fwtx/permian-basin-east-loop

Happy Texas Wildflower Day, from some of the many flower species, spotted at The Preserve!

Celebrate by visiting The Preserve today!

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03/22/2024

Do you enjoy looking at birds? Is Spring migration the best time of the year for you? The Birding Classic may be for you! Read more about it in the release below, and register your team by the end of the day Monday, April 1st to be part of the fun!
https://tpwd.texas.gov/newsmedia/releases/?req=20240322a

And it's for a great cause - funds raised support bird conservation and birding projects throughout the state. Win-win!

News Release, March 22, 2024: 28th Annual Great Texas Birding Classic Begins April 15

03/06/2024

Are you looking for a different way to view wildlife on the Great Texas Wildlife Trail? Try one of our Texas Paddling Trails (link in comments)! Here's a story out just this week about the Brazos Bridges and Bosque Bluffs Paddling Trails right in the heart of Waco. One of the trail's access sites is right across the river from Cameron Park, site PPWW 026. Check it out!

Located right in the heart of downtown Waco, the Bosque Bluffs and Brazos Bridges paddling trails provide a unique view of the outdoors. The trails offer eas...

03/05/2024

Just around the corner from site UTC 066 (8-Mile Road and Sportsmen's Road) in Galveston, wildlife viewers in the area can have a different viewing experience tomorrow - seeing rehabbed green sea turtles released back into the wild! What an awesome opportunity!

Tomorrow, March 6th, 2024 at 2 pm we will be releasing rehabilitated green sea turtle patients with our Houston Zoo partners! Join us at Pocket Park 1 in Galveston to see these animals return to the Gulf after being cold stunned in January!

02/29/2024

Happy Leap Day!

I've been waiting 4 years for this.

02/16/2024

This weekend is the annual Great Backyard Bird Count! If you love spending time viewing wildlife in your own backyard, this is a wonderful way to contribute to science.

https://www.birdcount.org/

Each year people from around the world come together to watch, learn about, count, and celebrate birds. Join us in February!