texas

Padre Island, a 60 mile stretch of Texas beach south of Corpus Christi, abounds with fish and birds.   Fishermen and their various interpretations of four-wheel-drive dominate the beach. It gets as crazy as one would expect on a South Texas beach.  The beach support once of the most interesting array of wading and shorebirds in the Gulf Coast.  Currents from both the north and south collide offshore of Padre Island and the upwelling of productivity expresses itself in abundant resources for feeding shorebirds like red knot.  The knot from this area confounds researchers.   Some come from nearby wintering areas in Panamas and the west coast of Mexico, but a few marked birds have known to be wintering in Chile.  David Newstead anchors the work in this area.