Browsing: Environment

Sharing my Beautyberries with the birds.

The allure of the Pascagoula River and its tributaries that fascinated him as a boy are now the subjects for an environmental impact photography project that will highlight how smaller tributaries contribute to the last free-flowing river in the United States.

Queen Butterflies are as beautiful as Monarchs

With the support of the Bacot-McCarty Foundation, Chevron Refinery and the Imperial Palace Casino, among many others, the Center is hosting the “Birds of a Feather” fundraiser to invite current and potential supporters to visit and learn more about new and existing programs. The event will take place along the bayou on Thursday, Oct. 24, from 6 to 9 p.m.

Groundsel Bush adds a splash of white to our world.

Nature has a language of its own, often expressed in colors or structures that send signals to the rest of the world. So it is with spines on caterpillars, like those on the beautiful Io moth.

Field trips are not just for children in traditional school settings, especially when the outing has so much educational value.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected the Gulf – Caribbean Oceanographic Consortium, cooperatively led by The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), to operate the third new oceanographic research ship to carry out regional scale research in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.

From live to dry and back again, Resurrection Fern is a survivor.

Rhodes Bayou will be humming on Sept. 13 as the site of the first-ever Hummingbird Happy Hour hosted by the Pascagoula River Audubon Center.

Owls are quite beautiful. Many sport brown, red, gray and white feathers in an array of patterns. Snowy owls are completely white, but they are not a common site south of Canada. Seeing a white owl in our part of the world is, therefore, a reason to take a second look.

For free-ranging Wolf Spiders, they take their egg sacs with them – securely attached to the spinnerets located at the end of their abdomens.

There is a hum of excitement in the air at the Pascagoula River Audubon Center as the staff prepares for its first-ever Hummingbird Festival. Held in conjunction with the fall migration, the Hummingbird Festival will be Sept. 13 and 14 and features activities for all ages.

A name can make an impression – good or bad. So it is with Gulf Toadfish. Brings a smile to your face, right? Well, let me speak up for the lowly Gulf Toadfish, with a face only a mother could love.

Some birds just take your breath away when you see them. That is the case for the large and brightly colored Black-Bellied Whistling Ducks that seem to have appeared out of nowhere in the past few years in South Mississippi.

I take great pleasure in telling anyone just how cool and beautiful spiders can be. This is especially true for my spider-phobic friends, for whom I have great empathy. I also like to allay the fears of others that have grown up with the belief that spiders are creatures to be feared.