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