NPAT – Houston

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The Houston Chapter of the Native Prairie Association of Texas (HNPAT) invites you to join our monthly meeting online (see link below) on Wednesday, April 27 at 7:00 PM (You may log in as early as 6:30 PM to work through any connection issues).
Meeting Presentation: Bird Tales from the Katy Prairie
by Bob Honig

This presentation will examine some of the ways the Katy Prairie has changed over the past 50 or so years and some of the changes in Katy Prairie avifauna during those years. It will address changes in bird species observed during the 2010-2013 drought, and species that were impacted by the 2021 mega-freeze. Bob will also include some of his more interesting observations while living on the Katy Prairie from 2006 to 2021 before moving to southern Wisconsin, near Madison, in 2021.

Bob Honig has spent many years observing and studying natural history. Bob is a former member of the Board of Directors and the Advisory Board of the Katy Prairie Conservancy, a land trust based in Houston. He is a past Chairman of the Ornithology Group of Houston’s Outdoor Nature Club and a former Compiler of the Buffalo Bayou (west Houston) and Brazos Bend, Texas, Christmas Bird Counts. As an environmental consultant he addressed such diverse issues as endangered species, wetlands, archaeology, recycling, and sustainability in addition to performing numerous bird surveys. His work took him throughout North America and included environmental surveys in Bolivia and the Algerian Sahara. His natural history pursuits have focused particularly on birds and dragonflies and damselflies. He has degrees in Biology (B.A., University of Pennsylvania) and Zoology (M.S., Virginia Tech, in the Aquatic Ecology Program).

While living in and near Houston, Texas for several decades, Bob and his wife Maggie led numerous field trips/tours in Texas, to Glacier National Park in Montana, and to the Asa Wright Nature Centre in Trinidad; and they have been part of Earthwatch expeditions to study caterpillars and their parasitoids in Costa Rica and sustainable watershed management in California. Bob and Maggie moved to Wisconsin in mid-2021. In addition to exploring their new habitat, they have been volunteering for the Madison Audubon Society and the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin.

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