Trip : Paradise Birding Texas Day 5 Login
2 Locations, 96 Sightings
Ducks, Geese, and Swans
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck B
Mottled Duck B
Blue-winged Teal SPAS
Chachalacas
Plain Chachalaca SPAS
Several birds posed cooperatively at the feeders by the visitor's center.
Grebes
Least Grebe SPAS
Pelicans
American White Pelican B
Brown Pelican B
Cormorants
Neotropic Cormorant SPAS
Darters
Anhinga SPAS
Bitterns and Herons
Least Bittern B
Great Blue Heron B
Great Egret B
Snowy Egret B
Little Blue Heron B
Tricolored Heron B
Reddish Egret B
Cattle Egret B
Green Heron B
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron SPAS
Ibises and Spoonbills
White Ibis B
White-faced Ibis B
Roseate Spoonbill B
New World Vultures
Black Vulture B
Hawks, Kites, and Eagles
Osprey B
Harris's Hawk B
Short-tailed Hawk SPAS
Caracaras and Falcons
Crested Caracara B
Aplomado Falcon B
this particular bird was wearing two bands. Given the banding and the location, we believe this bird is not ABA-countable.
Rails, Gallinules and Coots
Clapper Rail B
King Rail B
Sora B
Common Moorhen B
Plovers
Black-bellied Plover B
I originally marked this photo as a Sanderling, but Ron Pittaway notes that it is in fact a Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover B
Piping Plover B
Killdeer B
Stilts and Avocets
Black-necked Stilt B
Sandpipers and Phalaropes
Greater Yellowlegs B
Lesser Yellowlegs B
Solitary Sandpiper B
Willet B
Long-billed Curlew B
Marbled Godwit B
Ruddy Turnstone B
Sanderling B
Western Sandpiper B
Least Sandpiper B
Dunlin B
Short-billed Dowitcher B
Long-billed Dowitcher B
Skuas, Gulls, and Terns
Laughing Gull B
Herring Gull B
Gull-billed Tern B
Caspian Tern B
Royal Tern B
Sandwich Tern B
Least Tern B
Black Skimmer B
Pigeons and Doves
Rock Pigeon B
White-winged Dove SPAS
Mourning Dove B
White-tipped Dove SPAS
Hummingbirds
Buff-bellied Hummingbird B
Kingfishers
Ringed Kingfisher SPAS
Seen from the photo blind at the Resaca at Sabal Palm. I originally marked this photo as a Green Kingfisher, but Ron Pittaway notes that it is in fact a Ringed Kingfisher.
Green Kingfisher SPAS
Seen from the photo blind at the Resaca at Sabal Palm.
Woodpeckers
Golden-fronted Woodpecker SPAS
Ladder-backed Woodpecker B
Tyrant Flycatchers
Brown-crested Flycatcher B
Great Kiskadee B
Couch's Kingbird B
Western Kingbird B
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher B
Jays and Crows
Green Jay SPAS
Chihuahuan Raven B
Larks
Horned Lark B
Swallows
Purple Martin B
Barn Swallow B
Chickadees and Titmice
Tufted Titmouse B
Black-crested Titmouse B
Wrens
Sedge Wren B
Several were calling from opposite the Botteri's sparrow on Old Port Isabel Road.
Mockingbirds and Thrashers
Northern Mockingbird B
Long-billed Thrasher SPAS
Starlings
European Starling B
Wood-Warblers
Northern Parula B
Common Yellowthroat B
Tanagers
Summer Tanager B
Emberizids
Olive Sparrow SPAS
Botteri's Sparrow B
Many of these birds were calling from the side of Old Port Isabel Road, but none would show themselves.
Swamp Sparrow B
Cardinals and Saltators
Indigo Bunting B
Blackbirds
Red-winged Blackbird B
Eastern Meadowlark B
Great-tailed Grackle B
Bronzed Cowbird SPAS
Altamira Oriole B
Old World Sparrows
House Sparrow B
Brownsville = B
Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary = SPAS
Trip Notes
Sabal Palm Grove Sanctuary, Laguna Madre Nature Trail, Hwy 100, Old Port Isabel Road
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