People come from all over the country to look at the various bird habitats here.
This is a way to capitalize on it. All that's left is for the City Council to sign off on the grants today. The annual Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's birding extravaganza is touted as the biggest and longest birding tournament in the United States. Birders scan hundreds of square miles of Texas coastal areas during the weeklong competition. The brochures will point people to the birding and outdoor hot spots throughout the city, and hopefully lure more birders to Corpus Christi, he said.