Houston is bayou country flattened into a metro, and the slow brown waterways run right through it. Great egrets and yellow-crowned night-herons stalk the ditches, green anoles turn from green to brown on every fence, and alligators live in the bayous and detention ponds more often than newcomers expect. The city sits on a major migration funnel, so spring brings a flood of warblers and tanagers dropping into the tree cover, and the coast an hour south is one of the best birding regions in North America.
Everything below is pulled live from recent research-grade observations near Houston. Browse by group, explore the map, and identify what you find with Huck.
146,349
recent observations
30
species listed
13
birds
9
insects & arthropods
4
reptiles & amphibians
Naturalists have logged 146,349 research-grade observations across the 30 most-recorded species near Houston. The most frequently seen is the Gulf Fritillary, with 9,554 recorded sightings.
Birds account for the largest share of what gets recorded there (13 of the species listed here), followed by insects & arthropods (9).