Bird-friendly agriculture can assist in helping waterbirds with rest stops along their seasonal migration routes.

Here’s the Central Texas bird forecast for the month ... you can see a variety of species enjoying the water. Swallows come in to drink on the wing, herons and egrets search for small fish ...

But many stops along the birds’ round-trip route are threatened. There are water shortages affecting agriculture in Texas, where the birds forage at turf grass farms; grassland loss and ...