Trip : Paradise Birding Texas Day 6 Login
2 Locations, 51 Sightings
Ducks, Geese, and Swans
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck MA
Fulvous Whistling-Duck MA
Mottled Duck MA
Blue-winged Teal MA
Northern Shoveler MA
Chachalacas
Plain Chachalaca (h) MA
Grebes
Pied-billed Grebe MA
Pelicans
American White Pelican MA
Cormorants
Neotropic Cormorant MA
Bitterns and Herons
Great Egret MA
Little Blue Heron MA
Ibises and Spoonbills
White-faced Ibis MA
New World Vultures
Turkey Vulture MA
Hawks, Kites, and Eagles
Mississippi Kite MA
We got to watch a kettle of several hundred Mississippi Kites circling around the horizon at sunset. I've never seen so many raptors together in one place!
Gray Hawk MA
Rails, Gallinules and Coots
Purple Gallinule MA
We have officially designated this sighting as our four hundredth life bird. We were talking with a Canadian fellow who said he'd been birding for twenty years but had never seen a Purple Gallinule. Within seconds, Mary and another woman spotted the bird walking out from the reeds. In remained in the open for several minutes, so everybody could admire it in the scope.
Common Moorhen MA
American Coot MA
Plovers
Killdeer MA
Stilts and Avocets
Black-necked Stilt MA
Sandpipers and Phalaropes
Lesser Yellowlegs MA
Long-billed Dowitcher MA
Skuas, Gulls, and Terns
Laughing Gull MA
Pigeons and Doves
Rock Pigeon MA
White-winged Dove MA
Inca Dove MA
White-tipped Dove MA
Psittacids
White-Fronted Parrot MA
Typical Owls
Eastern Screech-Owl (h) MA
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl MA
Elf Owl BRGVSP
heard and seen at a staked-out nest site
Goatsuckers
Lesser Nighthawk MA
Common Pauraque MA
Chuck-will's-widow (h) MA
Hummingbirds
Buff-bellied Hummingbird MA
Woodpeckers
Golden-fronted Woodpecker MA
Ladder-backed Woodpecker MA
Tyrant Flycatchers
Couch's Kingbird MA
Eastern Kingbird MA
Swallows
Purple Martin MA
Barn Swallow MA
Chickadees and Titmice
Black-crested Titmouse MA
Thrushes
Clay-colored Robin MA
We watched the female on the nest for quite a while, she made a brief trip out of the nest for this photo in very low light.
Mockingbirds and Thrashers
Long-billed Thrasher MA
Emberizids
Olive Sparrow MA
Blackbirds
Red-winged Blackbird MA
Great-tailed Grackle MA
Great-tailed Grackle MA
Bronzed Cowbird MA
Altamira Oriole MA
Old World Sparrows
House Sparrow MA
Bentsen Rio Grande Valley State Park = BRGVSP
McAllen = MA
Trip Notes
Santa Ana NWR, Bentsen Rio Grande River State Park
Trip Photos
Trip Map