[texbirds] Big Week 4/22-28

  • From: Jon McIntyre <mcintyrebirds@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Tex Birds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:22:33 -0500

Jeff Shenot and I did a Texas big week from April 22-28.  We ended up with 355 
species and traveled over 2800 miles.  Here is a complete list of the birds we 
saw with info on the "better" birds. 
 
Black-Bellied Whistling-Duck
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard (Mexican and green-headed)
Mottled Duck
Blue-Winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal (Port Aransas Birding Center)
Northern Shoveler
Green-Winged Teal
Redhead
Greater Scaup (Hans Suter Park)
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead (Lake Balmorhea)
Red-Breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Plain Chachalaca
Wild Turkey
Scaled Quail
Northern Bobwhite
Montezuma Quail (LE Wood Picnic Area)
Common Loon
Least Grebe
Pied-Billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe (Lake Balmorhea)
Clark's Grebe (Lake Balmorhea)
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Neotropic Cormorant
Double-Crested Cormorant
Anhinga
American Bittern (Olivera Park/Anahuac NWR)
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
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis (Anahuac NWR-Skillern Tract)
White-Faced Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Mississippi Kite
Northern Harrier
Sharp-Shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Gray Hawk (Cottonwood Campground/Salineno)
Common Black-Hawk (Rio Grande Village)
Harris's Hawk
Red-Shouldered Hawk
Broad-Winged Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
White-Tailed Hawk
Zone-Tailed Hawk (Boot Canyon)
Red-Tailed Hawk
Crested Caracara
American Kestrel
Merlin
Aplomado Falcon (Old Port Isabel Rd)
Peregrine Falcon
Yellow Rail (Anahuac NWR)
Clapper Rail
King Rail
Virginia Rail
Sora
Purple Gallinule (Port Aransas Birding Center/Anahuac NWR)
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Black-Bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover
Snowy Plover
Wilson's Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Killdeer
American Oystercatcher
Black-Necked Stilt
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Ruff (Anahuac NWR-Skillern Tract)
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Upland Sandpiper
Whimbrel (Lake Balmorhea/multiple locations on the coast)
Long-Billed Curlew
Hudsonian Godwit (Packery Channel)
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot (on the beach in Port Aransas)
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-Rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
Stilt Sandpiper
Short-Billed Dowitcher
Long-Billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Phalarope
Laughing Gull
Franklin's Gull
Ring-Billed Gull
Herring Gull
Gull-Billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Least Tern
Black Tern
Black Skimmer
Rock Pigeon
Red-Billed Pigeon (Salineno)
Band-Tailed Pigeon (Boot Springs)
Eurasian Collared-Dove
White-Winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
Common Ground-Dove
White-Tipped Dove
Monk Parakeet
Green Parakeet
Red-Lored Parrot (Olivera Park)
Lilac-Crowned Parrot (Olivera Park)
Yellow-Headed Parrot (Olivera Park)
Red-Crowned Parrot
Black-Billed Cuckoo (Packery Channel)
Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
Greater Roadrunner
Barn Owl
Flammulated Owl (Boot Canyon)
Western Screech-Owl (Boot Canyon)
Eastern Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl
Elf Owl (Christmas Mountains Oasis)
Barred Owl
Lesser Nighthawk
Common Nighthawk
Common Pauraque
Common Poorwill
Chuck-Will's-Widow
Mexican Whip-Poor-Will (Boot Canyon)
Chimney Swift
White-Throated Swift 
Buff-Bellied Hummingbird
Blue-Throated Hummingbird (Boot Springs)
Lucifer Hummingbird (Christmas Mountains Oasis)
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
Black-Chinned Hummingbird
Broad-Tailed Hummingbird
Ringed Kingfisher
Belted Kingfisher
Green Kingfisher
Red-Headed Woodpecker (Jones State Forrest)
Acorn Woodpecker
Golden-Fronted Woodpecker
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker (SPI Convention Center)
Ladder-Backed Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Red-Cockaded Woodpecker (Jones State Forrest)
Northern Flicker (Davis Mountains)
Olive-Sided Flycatcher
Western Wood-Pewee
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Say's Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher
Ash-Throated Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Brown-Crested Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
Tropical Kingbird
Couch's Kingbird
Cassin's Kingbird
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
White-Eyed Vireo
Bell's Vireo (Pollywog Ponds/multiple birds in Big Bend)
Black-Capped Vireo (South Llano River SP)
Gray Vireo (Blue Creek Trail)
Yellow-Throated Vireo
Plumbeous Vireo (LE Wood Picnic Area)
Blue-Headed Vireo
Hutton's Vireo (Boot Canyon)
Warbling Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
Green Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
Mexican Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow (Tyrrell Park)
Chihuahuan Raven
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Violet-Green Swallow (Boot Canyon)
Northern Rough-Winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Cave Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Black-Crested Titmouse
Verdin
Bushtit
White-Breasted Nuthatch
Brown-Headed Nuthatch (Jones State Forrest)
Cactus Wren
Rock Wren
Canyon Wren
Carolina Wren
Bewick's Wren
House Wren
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
Black-Tailed Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Western Bluebird
Veery
Gray-Cheeked Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
Clay-Colored Thrush
American Robin (Cottonwood Campground)
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Long-Billed Thrasher
Curve-Billed Thrasher
European Starling
American Pipit (Lake Balmorhea)
Cedar Waxwing (Chalk Bluff Park)
Blue-Winged Warbler
Golden-Winged Warbler (multiple locations on the coast)
Brewster's Warbler (Pollywog Ponds/Sabine Woods)
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-Crowned Warbler (Boot Canyon)
Nashville Warbler
Colima Warbler (Pinnacles Trail)
Lucy's Warbler (Cottonwood Campground)
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-Sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Yellow-Rumped Warbler (Myrtle and Audubon's)
Golden-Cheeked Warbler (Real county)
Black-Throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow-Throated Warbler (Jones State Forrest)
Pine Warbler
Palm Warbler (Anahuac NWR)
Bay-Breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler 
Cerulean Warbler (multiple locations along the coast)
Black-and-White Warbler
American Redstart
Prothonotary Warbler
Worm-Eating Warbler
Swainson's Warbler (SPI Convention Center)
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush (Real county)
Kentucky Warbler
Mourning Warbler (Sabel Palm)
MacGillivray's Warbler (Christmas Mountains/Blucher Park)
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Canada Warbler
Painted Redstart (Boot Canyon)
Yellow-Breasted Chat
Hepatic Tanager (Basin- BBNP)
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager
Olive Sparrow
Green-Tailed Towhee (Christmas Mountains Oasis)
Spotted Towhee
Canyon Towhee
Cassin's Sparrow
Botteri's Sparrow (Old Port Isabel Rd)
Rufous-Crowned Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-Colored Sparrow
Brewer's Sparrow (Lake Balmorhea)
Field Sparrow (South Llano River SP)
Black-Chinned Sparrow (Basin- BBNP)
Lark Sparrow
Black-Throated Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Nelson's Sparrow (Anahuac NWR)
Seaside Sparrow (Anahuac NWR)
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-Crowned Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
Black-Headed Grosbeak
Crimson-Collared Grosbeak (Sabel Palm)
Blue Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting (Real county)
Indigo Bunting
Painted Bunting
Dickcissel
Bobolink (Near Anahuac NWR)
Red-Winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-Headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Common Grackle
Boat-Tailed Grackle
Great-Tailed Grackle 
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown-Headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Hooded Oriole (Sabel Palm)
Bullock's Oriole
Altamira Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Scott's Oriole
Audubon's Oriole (Salineno)
House Finch
Pine Siskin
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch (Christmas Mountains Oasis)
House Sparrow
 
Jon McIntyre
Ingelside
 
 
                                          
Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at 
//www.freelists.org/list/texbirds

Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission 
from the List Owner


Other related posts:

  • » [texbirds] Big Week 4/22-28 - Jon McIntyre