Texas Highways Magazine

SOUTH TEXAS

is famous for its diversity of birdlife and opportunities to see birds that live nowhere else in the country. But the region contains scalier treasures as well. For a close-up look, I join Clint Guadiana, curator of reptiles and amphibians at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville. We embark on a tour of the 557-acre expanse of

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