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Josh Coward grew up in the small central Texas town of Harper, near Fredericksburg. His upbringing was a little more…

By the time Cullom Simpson was in middle school he knew exactly what he wanted to do when he grew…

ALPINE TX – The Borderlands Research Institute (BRI) at Sul Ross State University and the Big Bend Conservation Alliance are…

ALPINE TX –West Texas landowners and residents are encouraged to lend a hand in conserving the birds of the Trans-Pecos….

Growing up in a little town in Michigan north of Detroit, Emily Card knew from a young age that she…

ALPINE TX – The Borderlands Research Institute (BRI) at Sul Ross State University has been awarded a $25,000 grant from…

The Borderlands Research Institute (BRI) at Sul Ross State University launched a new series of outreach events this year to…

Populations of quails in Texas have declined over the past few decades due primarily to habitat loss. However, the role…

Trey Johnson has learned how to roll with the punches. Halfway through his bachelor’s degree at Texas A&M, he realized…

The Respect Big Bend (RBB) coalition wrapped up their fall 2020 seminar series hosted by the Borderlands Research Institute (BRI)…

It’s fall and it’s bird migration season in West Texas. Many people are itching to get out and find unique birds heading south for the winter. However, sometimes the greatest places to view birds are hard to get to. Which is why the Borderlands Research Institute (BRI), the Dixon Water Foundation, and the Shield-Ayres Foundation launched a new program, Borderlands Birding Bonanza, to connect people with birds.

 major research focus for the Borderlands Research Institute is desert quail. There’s a lot of research attention on bobwhite quail, but little available research on scaled quail, Gambel’s quail and Montezuma quail. Listen to the full Borderlands Buzz podcast to hear more about BRI’s quail research efforts here.