A road runner! This guy was in our campsite in south western Texas at Falcon state park. He did seem to prefer running over flying but as the girls observed he didn't go 'meep meep'.
We were also privileged to see the rare whooping crane at Aransas national wildlife refuge in south eastern Texas. We saw them from about a mile away through a telescope on top of a viewing tower where we also saw a few wandering 'collared peccaries' or wild boars. The whooping cranes were down to 15 in 1941 and are now about 335 wild and captive. The flock of 158 that winters at Aransas is the only self-sustaining group in the wild. They migrate to the Northwest Territories.
We visited the Texas Sea Centre near Houston where we went on a great tour of a large fish hatchery. The girls liked the sticky anemones in the touch tanks.
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