12 August, 2019
The majestic Rio Grande River cuts deep canyons between the United States and Mexico, creating staggering landscapes in one of the largest protected areas of its kind in North America. The most remote corner of this infamous borderland is Big Bend National Park a vast, unspoiled wonderland of serene beauty and home to some of America’s most glorious wildlife. This is true frontier land, where horizons never end and stars blaze as they have for eons.
Nature Big Bend: The Wild Frontier of Texas premieres nationwide
Wednesday, February 10 at 8 p.m. on PBS,pbs.org/nature and the PBS Video app.
This was Papa Quincyâs first Christmas without Queenie.
And he was sure the quail he saw on the other side of the road looked familiar. They both cocked their heads. Could it be?
He had been thinking about how he met Queenie long ago on the miraculous Christmas day it snowed. He was just a chick. A cold chick that had been lost for days. A twig snapped by a coyote flushed Queenie straight into his tail feathers as he pecked, beak down, for seeds in the snow. Within days the two crossed their crown feathers to form a heart, becoming one for life, through wildfires and wildflowers.