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The Thunderbird Hunting Club and Lodge was founded in 1986 to provide private hunting memberships to individuals and corporations looking for quality waterfowl hunting with easy access and no overcrowding or outside competition from guides.

07/31/2026

Conservation isn’t just about the season, it’s everything that happens between them.

07/17/2026

Good habitat doesn’t happen by accident.

05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day from your family at Thunderbird!

Yesterday we filmed a flock of Wilson’s Phalaropes on one of our ponds at the Thunderbird Hunting Club. The Wilson’s Phalarope shorebird is an elegantly shorebird that has a couple of very unique behaviors. Unlike most other bird species where the males are the ones doing the courting with brightly colored feathers, it is the females that are the ones doing all the wooing in a showy tuxedo-like dress of chestnut/rusty-red neck stripes, a bold black eye-line, a bluish-gray crown, along with cinnamon or peach-colored highlights on the back and upper sides, all accented by a bleached white throat. Furthermore the “dads” become the “moms” both incubating the eggs and raising the young. Talk about a Mother’s Day Out!

A second interesting behavior in the Wilson’s Phalarope is that they feed on invertebrates by twirling around like spinning tops stirring the bottom sending their food to the surface.

Along the Texas coast shorebirds migrate through in mass in May. At Thunderbird we leave as much water on the landscape as possible for migrating shorebirds whose population numbers have dropped dramatically in recent times due to habitat loss.

04/22/2026

This land isn’t just where we hunt—it’s where life thrives.

On this Earth Day, we’re proud to manage and protect habitat that supports not just ducks, but a full range of waterfowl and wildlife that depend on these wetlands every day. From sunrise flights to quiet marsh mornings, it all starts with conservation.

Days like these don’t happen by accident. They’re built. Protected. Sustained.

We’re reminded that the future of the flyway is in the work we put in today. And we’re all in. 🌎🦆

04/05/2026

Happy Easter from your friends at Thunderbird Hunting Club. THC’s own, Todd Steele, spends every spring photographing ducks on our properties. The drake bull sprig in his dramatic courtship display is one of many images Todd captured this past spring.

At Thunderbird we leave as much water on the landscape as possible year-round to not only help migrating ducks but shorebirds, wading birds, and other migratory birds.

02/08/2026

Gus would like to point out that migratory bird hunting is not over. Snipe are in season until February 15 and yes this is a real thing.

01/31/2026

Thunderbird Hunting Club was recognized at the 2026 Matagorda County Soil and Water Conservation District for its year round habitat work.

Combining conservation minded landowners, partnerships with key conservation organizations, our reliable supplier networks, our members’ hunter dollars and countless hours of work by the Steele family and our managers — we deliver the equivalent of four square miles of habitat each year for migratory waterfowl, shore birds and countless other critters.

It’s a labor of love and we can’t wait to get busy for next season.

01/22/2026

One last weekend to try to coax the Pintails from 35k feet into the decoys!

01/16/2026

Thunderbird’s newest retreiver…

01/09/2026

January habit work is a tricky job. This part of the season brings evaporation from north winds and lower humidity. Your duck habitat can disappear overnight and you need to know when to flood.

Wednesday this pond was on its way out. Overnight flooding with staged water restored acres of skinny water ducks love.

On Friday morning the scout report shows 2,000+ ducks in this spot.

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