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County Notes
We have only visited this county 6 times since we started birding, so we think of it as rare.
163 Species
Ducks, Geese, and Swans
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Redhead
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Chachalacas
Plain Chachalaca
New World Quail
Northern Bobwhite
Grebes
Least Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Pelicans
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Cormorants
Neotropic Cormorant
Darters
Anhinga
Bitterns and Herons
Least Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Reddish Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Ibises and Spoonbills
White Ibis
White-faced Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
New World Vultures
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Hawks, Kites, and Eagles
Osprey
White-tailed Kite
Harris's Hawk
Short-tailed Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
White-tailed Hawk
Caracaras and Falcons
Crested Caracara
Merlin
Aplomado Falcon
Rails, Gallinules and Coots
Clapper Rail
King Rail
Sora
Purple Gallinule
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Plovers
Black-bellied Plover
Wilson's Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Killdeer
Stilts and Avocets
Black-necked Stilt
Sandpipers and Phalaropes
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Skuas, Gulls, and Terns
Laughing Gull
Franklin's Gull
Herring Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Least Tern
Black Skimmer
Pigeons and Doves
Rock Pigeon
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
Common Ground-Dove
White-tipped Dove
Cuckoos, Roadrunners and Anis
Greater Roadrunner
Groove-billed Ani
Typical Owls
Great Horned Owl
Goatsuckers
Lesser Nighthawk
Common Nighthawk
Common Pauraque
Swifts
Chimney Swift
Hummingbirds
Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Kingfishers
Ringed Kingfisher
Green Kingfisher
Woodpeckers
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Tyrant Flycatchers
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Least Flycatcher
Brown-crested Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
Tropical Kingbird
Couch's Kingbird
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Shrikes
Loggerhead Shrike
Vireos
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Jays and Crows
Green Jay
Chihuahuan Raven
Larks
Horned Lark
Swallows
Purple Martin
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Chickadees and Titmice
Tufted Titmouse
Black-crested Titmouse
Wrens
Cactus Wren
Carolina Wren
Sedge Wren
Kinglets
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Thrushes
Swainson's Thrush
Clay-colored Robin
Mockingbirds and Thrashers
Northern Mockingbird
Long-billed Thrasher
Starlings
European Starling
Wood-Warblers
Blue-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Palm Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Tanagers
Summer Tanager
Emberizids
Olive Sparrow
Botteri's Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Cardinals and Saltators
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Dickcissel
Blackbirds
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Great-tailed Grackle
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Altamira Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Bullock's Oriole
Northern Finches
Lesser Goldfinch
Old World Sparrows
House Sparrow
6 Trips
2004 Apr 17, Paradise Birding Texas Day 5
2005 Apr 20, South Texas Day One
2005 Apr 21, South Texas Day Two
2005 Apr 22, South Texas Day Three
2005 Apr 23, South Texas Day Four
2008 Apr 11, Texas 2008 Day Six
County Photos
County Map
Brownsville [gallery]
Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary [gallery]
Laguna Atascosa NWR
South Padre Island [gallery]
Old Port Isabel Road