NDC News – Nature Discovery Center

NDC Partners with Discovery Green for Special Programs during Paloma Installation
2019-12-12
The Nature Discovery Center is partnering with Discovery Green to offer urban birding opportunities, wildlife encounters, crafts and activities, and a mindfulness experience during Paloma, a temporary art installation of…
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2019-12-05
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Fall Changes to take NDC Discovery Rooms Back to their Roots
2019-09-30
Over the next month or so, staff at the Nature Discovery Center will be making mission driven changes to our Discovery Rooms that will take the rooms back to the…
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We’re Partnering with Houston Audubon and others for Bird Week
2019-09-20
We’re excited to be an official partner with the Houston Audubon in the first-ever Houston Bird Week, in honor of their 50th anniversary. Equal parts fun, education, and celebration, experience…
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Fall Planting Season is Coming
2019-09-10
It’s almost fall planting season! Visit these two great native plant events hosted by our partners at the Native Plant Society and the Garden Club of Houston! Wildscapes Workshop Saturday,…
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June 2019 Wired to Nature
2019-06-20
Duran, E. (6/2019) Why bats and wasps matter: Debunking myths about pollinators. Essentials, p. 18 Wired to Nature is the Nature Discovery Center’s regular column in Essentials, a monthly…
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New Snake Species for Russ Pitman Park
2019-05-13
By Eric Duran, Staff Naturalist On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 during a light rain, I went out flipping logs to add a couple of species to the previous day’s bio-blitz,…
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117 Species Spotted on Spring Migration Field Trip
2019-04-29
Last Friday, April 27, 2019, a group of senior members of the Nature Discovery Center traveled to Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge and High Island for our annual Spring Migration Field…
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SNAIL INVASION!
2019-04-24
This past April 13th, during our Spring Fling Festival, an unwelcome discovery was made. One of our volunteers was dip-netting in the pond with kids, as part of a pond…
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2019 Spring Fling!
2019-04-22
Despite a dreary forecast, we had over 400 people attend our annual Spring Fling! A Big Thank You to the volunteers and families who came out to enjoy the beauty…