V-27 Texas Red Wolf Size:7.5" x 9.5" Nests are usually located under

Nests are usually located under shrubs or in some other protected and shaded site

also known as Bonaparte's sandpiper

The images were then printed in black and white (the texture gives the image a "pen and ink" feel) on watercolor paper and are now hand watercolored by his son Ben Beckendorf

It is weak-clawed and must eat when and where it finds a carcass

Fish and Wildlife Service established the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge where 18 or 19 birds were counted

V-27 Texas Red Wolf Size:7.5" x 9.5" Nests are usually located underThe Texas red wolf formerly ranged throughout the eastern half of Texas. It was a subspecies of a little known American canine that once ranged over the southeastern United States from Central Texas to Southern Illinois. The Texas red wolf is today, for all practical purposes, extinct in the wild. The increase in human population, land use changes, and predator control, all contributed to the demise of the red wolf. This image is from the Charles