The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Wildlife Services is expanding egret deferment activities in Elmendorf Park. The use of pyrotechnics will be expanded to longer periods throughout the day. The pyrotechnics sound like fireworks. Activities will take place daily over the next few months.

This is part of an effort that began in 2019 to thin the population of egrets in the park because of the threat of bird strikes to aircraft from nearby Kelly Airfield/Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.