Upcoming Speakers

These speakers and events will be featured during our monthly meetings, 7pm on the second Tuesday of each month (excluding the dog days of July and August) at the South Texas Botanical Gardens in Corpus Christi. Come join us!

 
 

December 9, 2025

Dania Sanchez

Join us at the South Texas Botanical Garden education building at 7 PM for our December meeting. Dania Sanchez of the Golden Triangle Audubon Society will talk about her Texas Big Year in 2024.

Dania Sanchez is a Texas wildlife photographer and birder on a mission to express her appreciation for birds and wildlife through her work. Her educational background from Del Mar College, Lamar State College Port Arthur and Lamar University provided her with skills to capture nature and understand the impact that technology has on historical and conservancy efforts. She currently serves as President of Golden Triangle Audubon Society and a volunteer for Texas Ornithological Society's Sabine Woods.

Through observation, visual storytelling and advocacy she hopes to spread awareness of the birds and wildlife of many areas in Texas specially the Golden Triangle where she resides. Dania believes that with the help of visibility and education our current and future generations can learn a new appreciation for birds and how they can improve quality of life. You can see her work through tourism brochures, social media, publications, travelogues and at her public speaking events. 

In 2024 Dania and her fiance Gregory Reynolds embarked on a wild adventure called the Texas Big Year resulting with Dania observing 512 species and Gregory with 508 putting them on the 1st and 2nd place lead for the year in Texas. Dania now holds the number 1 female spot for most species seen for Texas in a year. 


 

Upcoming Field Trips

Come join us in the field as we explore the bird life around Corpus Christi and beyond!

We are taking a break until September to beat the heat. Have a great summer!

 

December 6 - Kingsville and Kleberg County

We will meet at Love’s Truck Stop (1451 US 77 frontage road) at 7:30 am.  From there we will head west to a couple stops on the Texas A&M University - Kingsville campus to look for various winter residents and resident birds that can often be found there.  Included in this university visit will be a stop at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Center to explore the A. E. Leonard Family Native Plant Garden.  This garden with its diverse native plantings attracts a nice assortment of birds. 

After that we will make stops at the King Ranch Visitor Center grounds and then head to Dick Kleberg Park.  We will finish out the morning by heading down to Kaufer Hubert county park and the waterbirds that can be found there. 

All stops will be slow paced, short walks.  Restrooms will be available at most birding stops. This tour will end at approximately 11:30.

Bring water, snacks and might as well tote along bug spray just to be fully prepared!

Questions?  Tom Langschied can be reached at 361-522-784.