Dan - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/author/dan/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:46:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/houstonnewmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-cropped-Houston.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Dan - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/author/dan/ 32 32 103504436 Chiriqui display https://houstonnewmedia.org/chiriqui-display/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chiriqui-display Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:46:27 +0000 https://blog.hmns.org/?p=32846 The post Chiriqui display appeared first on HoustonNewMedia.org.

]]> 660385 Tinamou Aggression https://houstonnewmedia.org/tinamou-aggression/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tinamou-aggression Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:45:38 +0000 https://blog.hmns.org/?p=32842 The post Tinamou Aggression appeared first on HoustonNewMedia.org.

]]> 660389 Other Projects https://houstonnewmedia.org/other-projects/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=other-projects Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:39:51 +0000 https://blog.hmns.org/?p=32840 Other Urban Wildlife Projects in the Bayou City Hidden Life of Houston CBC Citizen Science Garden
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]]> 660391 News https://houstonnewmedia.org/news/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=news Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:37:50 +0000 https://blog.hmns.org/?p=32838 2004 – Tickled pink by a Flamingo’s visit 2008 – Ikester – what a mess of things you made! 2012 – Spider webs pose a danger for small birds  2015 – Elusive cardinals are beginning to show up 2018-Update on Waugh bridge bat colony hit by Hurricane Harve...

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]]> 660394 Texas Invasive Bird Project https://houstonnewmedia.org/texas-invasive-bird-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=texas-invasive-bird-project Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:13:37 +0000 https://blog.hmns.org/?p=32823 What is it? The Texas Invasive Bird Project (TIBP) is a citizen-science project that initiated in June 2008. TIBP evaluates status of invasive or introduced species of birds in the state of Texas. Coordinated by Daniel Brooks, Ph.D. since 2008 at the H...

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]]> 670163 Time to Twitch: Birdwatching in Panama https://houstonnewmedia.org/time-to-twitch-birdwatching-in-panama/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=time-to-twitch-birdwatching-in-panama Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:25:53 +0000 https://blog.hmns.org/?p=32800 Editor’s Note: Dr. Dan Brooks, Curator of Vertebrate Zoology recounts recent adventures in Panama while studying and birdwatching along the way. In my last two blogs about a recent trip to Panama, I discussed offshore fish , and the importance of the I...

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]]> 648254 It takes a(n Embera) village https://houstonnewmedia.org/it-takes-an-embera-village/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=it-takes-an-embera-village Thu, 27 Jul 2023 21:37:55 +0000 https://blog.hmns.org/?p=32776 Editor’s Note: Dr. Dan Brooks, Curator of Vertebrate Zoology recounts recent adventures off the shores of Panama with local fishermen of the Embera people. In my last blog, I discussed a recent trip to a remote, pristine part of Panama, just north of t...

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]]> 636752 A sobering lesson for the old man and the sea https://houstonnewmedia.org/a-sobering-lesson-for-the-old-man-and-the-sea/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-sobering-lesson-for-the-old-man-and-the-sea Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:11:33 +0000 https://blog.hmns.org/?p=32749 Editor’s Note: Dr. Dan Brooks, Curator of Vertebrate Zoology recounts recent adventures off the shores of Panama with hopes of spotting the rare Black Marlin. In late 2013, HMNS obtained the world’s largest bony (vs cartilaginous) fish for display in t...

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]]> 615635 Cool birds in strange places (and then some…) https://houstonnewmedia.org/cool-birds-in-strange-places-and-then-some/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cool-birds-in-strange-places-and-then-some Wed, 23 Mar 2022 21:47:12 +0000 https://blog.hmns.org/?p=32079 The blog about the stray woodpecker in a cemetery was such a smash hit, that the clever folks in our PR dept. proposed taking it to the next level. My mind raced with possible sites to visit that would fall under the general theme of ‘Cool birds in str...

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]]> 277190 Enjoying Wildlife with Visual Impairments https://houstonnewmedia.org/enjoying-wildlife-with-visual-impairments/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=enjoying-wildlife-with-visual-impairments Wed, 09 Feb 2022 20:25:58 +0000 https://blog.hmns.org/?p=31997 Editor’s Note: This article was co-authored by HMNS Accessibility Programs Manager Matti Wallin and Marcia Moore, OD, FCOVD, ABO Diplomate of Bellaire Family Eye Care. Nearly everyone enjoys wildlife, but sometimes it can be challenging to get go...

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]]> 250386 A dispersed flock of angels, a rare woodpecker, and a local cast of celebs from the past… https://houstonnewmedia.org/a-dispersed-flock-of-angels-a-rare-woodpecker-and-a-local-cast-of-celebs-from-the-past/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-dispersed-flock-of-angels-a-rare-woodpecker-and-a-local-cast-of-celebs-from-the-past Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:41:38 +0000 https://blog.hmns.org/?p=31948 While the title of today’s blog perhaps sounds like the introduction to a bad bar joke, these three things really do share something in common besides ambling into a bar or being on a Cessna short of a parachute. The thing they all share in common is t...

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]]> 238702 The Houston Urban Wildlife Project https://houstonnewmedia.org/the-houston-urban-wildlife-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-houston-urban-wildlife-project Thu, 22 Apr 2021 18:14:22 +0000 http://blog.hmns.org/?p=31517 While Earth Day undoubtedly evokes various emotions in people who are passionate about the environment, I don’t consider myself a very emotional person.  I think I can count on my fingers the number of times I’ve had tears in my eyes since I was i...

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]]> 123577 Help Save Millions of Birds with the FLIP of a SWITCH https://houstonnewmedia.org/help-save-millions-of-birds-with-the-flip-of-a-switch/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=help-save-millions-of-birds-with-the-flip-of-a-switch Mon, 29 Mar 2021 16:06:09 +0000 http://blog.hmns.org/?p=31377 If you’ve ever visited the Oak Motte diorama in the Farish Hall of Texas Wildlife, we’ve attempted to recreate the spectacular scene of Spring migration along the Texas Coast.  Each and every Spring, 2.5-3.5 billion birds make their way north to t...

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]]> 118627 From Our Collections: Look overhead! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no – it’s definitely a bird… https://houstonnewmedia.org/from-our-collections-look-overhead-its-a-bird-its-a-plane-no-its-definitely-a-bird/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-our-collections-look-overhead-its-a-bird-its-a-plane-no-its-definitely-a-bird Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:30:00 +0000 http://blog.hmns.org/?p=31070 In some of the blogs I wrote several weeks ago, I tried to let you in on some BtS ideas of why certain diorama scenes were created the way they were.  Here is another fun tidbit – over each label describing species and habitat in Farish Hall of Te...

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]]> 78448 From the Curator: Aquatic Turtles of McGovern Lake https://houstonnewmedia.org/from-the-curator-aquatic-turtles-of-mcgovern-lake/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-the-curator-aquatic-turtles-of-mcgovern-lake Tue, 18 Aug 2020 19:02:56 +0000 http://blog.hmns.org/?p=30984 I’ve been doing aquatic bird surveys at McGovern Lake in Hermann Park for over a decade, but that will have to be a blog topic for the future!  Every now and then my son comes with me, and he’s pretty much a reptile-magnet.   We now have document...

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]]> 67843 How Did We Get These Specimens? The Case of the Edward’s Pheasant https://houstonnewmedia.org/how-did-we-get-these-specimens-the-case-of-the-edwards-pheasant/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-did-we-get-these-specimens-the-case-of-the-edwards-pheasant Thu, 25 Jun 2020 19:11:50 +0000 http://blog.hmns.org/?p=30879 One of the most common questions I’m asked as Curator of Vertebrate Zoology is “Where and how do you get your specimens?” The standard answer is that they died of natural causes or from medical complications in captivity or at a wildlife rehabilitation...

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]]> 55261 Cool Cats and Kittens | A Curator’s Take on Tigers https://houstonnewmedia.org/cool-cats-and-kittens-a-curators-take-on-tigers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cool-cats-and-kittens-a-curators-take-on-tigers Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:38:43 +0000 http://blog.hmns.org/?p=30699 As a wildlife researcher, I have worked with the Latin American Tigre (the common name for the Jaguar [Panthera onca] in Latin America), and that’s the closest I’ve come to working with tigers in their native range. So why would HMNS be interested in h...

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