I took visiting birders Mike and Michelle Zito from New York birding for a day
around the Coastal Bend and 3 days in the valley. See a complete list of birds
we saw with info on the "better birds".
1. Black-Bellied Whistling-Duck
2. Gadwall
3. Mottled Duck
4. Blue-Winged Teal
5. Cinnamon Teal- Estero Llano Grande SP
6. Green-Winged Teal
7. Northern Shoveler
8. Redhead
9. Ring-Necked Duck
10. Lesser Scaup
11. Red-Breasted Merganser
12. Ruddy Duck
13. Plain Chachalaca
14. Wild Turkey
15. Northern Bobwhite
16. Least Grebe
17. Pied-Billed Grebe
18. Eared Grebe
19. American White Pelican
20. Brown Pelican
21. Neotropic Cormorant
22. Double-Crested Cormorant
23. Great Blue Heron
24. Great Egret
25. Snowy Egret
26. Little Blue Heron
27. Tricolored Heron
28. Reddish Egret
29. Cattle Egret
30. Black-Crowned Night-Heron
31. Yellow-Crowned Night-Heron
32. White Ibis
33. White-Faced Ibis
34. Roseate Spoonbill
35. Black Vulture
36. Turkey Vulture
37. Osprey
38. White-Tailed Kite
39. Sharp-Shinned Hawk
40. Cooper's Hawk
41. Harris's Hawk
42. Red-Shouldered Hawk
43. White-Tailed Hawk
44. Red-Tailed Hawk
45. Crested Caracara
46. American Kestrel
47. Merlin
48. Aplomado Falcon- Old Port Isabel Rd.
49. Peregrine Falcon
50. King Rail- Tiocano Lake
51. Sora
52. Common Gallinule
53. American Coot
54. Sandhill Crane
55. Black-Bellied Plover
56. Semipalmated Plover
57. Killdeer
58. American Oysertcatcher
59. Black-Necked Stilt
60. American Avocet
61. Greater Yellowlegs
62. Lesser Yellowlegs
63. Willet
64. Spotted Sandpiper
65. Long-Billed Curlew
66. Marbled Godwit
67. Ruddy Turnstone
68. Sanderling
69. Least Sandpiper
70. Dunlin
71. Short-Billed Dowitcher
72. Long-Billed Dowitcher
73. Wilson's Snipe
74. Laughing Gull
75. Ring-Billed Gull
76. Herring Gull
77. Caspian Tern
78. Royal Tern
79. Forster's Tern
80. Rock Pigeon
81. Red-Billed Pigeon- 7 at Salineno
82. Eurasian Collared-Dove
83. White-Winged Dove
84. Mourning Dove
85. Inca Dove
86. Common Ground-Dove
87. White-Tipped Dove
88. Monk Parakeet- Hidalgo
89. Green Parakeet- Brownsville
90. Red-Crowned Parrot- Brownsville
91. Red-Lored Parrot- Brownsville
92. White-Fronted Parrot- Brownsville
93. Yellow-Headed Parrot- Brownsville
94. Greater Roadrunner
95. Burrowing Owl- Refugio/Nueces counties
96. Barred Owl- Lions Park- Refugio
97. Common Pauraque
98. Broad-Billed Hummingbird- Fulton
99. Buff-Bellied Hummingbird
100. Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
101. Black-Chinned Hummingbird- Estero Llano Grande SP
102. Ringed Kingfisher- Salineno
103. Belted Kingfisher
104. Green Kingfisher- Salineno/Hidalgo Pumphouse/Tiocano Lake
105. Golden-Fronted Woodpecker
106. Ladder-Backed Woodpecker
107. Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
108. Black Phoebe- Hidalgo Pumphouse
109. Eastern Phoebe
110. Vermilion Flycatcher
111. Great Kiskadee
112. Tropical Kingbird- Hidalgo Pumphouse
113. Couch's Kingbird
114. Loggerhead Shrike
115. White-Eyed Vireo
116. Blue-Headed Vireo
117. Green Jay
118. Chihuahuan Raven- Salineno
119. Purple Martin
120. Tree Swallow
121. Northern Rough-Winged Swallow
122. Cave Swallow
123. Barn Swallow
124. Black-Crested Titmouse
125. Verdin- CR239 Jim Wells county
126. Cactus Wren- CR239 Jim Wells county
127. Carolina Wren
128. Bewick's Wren
129. House Wren
130. Marsh Wren
131. Sedge Wren
132. Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
133. Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
134. Black-Tailed Gnatcatcher- Salineno Dump Rd.
135. Eastern Bluebird
136. Clay-Colored Thrush
137. Northern Mockingbird
138. Long-Billed Thrasher
139. Curve-Billed Thrasher
140. European Starling
141. American Pipit
142. Sprague's Pipit- Nueces county roads
143. Orange-Crowned Warbler
144. Tropical Parula- Lions Park- Refugio
145. Yellow-Rumped Warbler
146. Black-Throated Gray Warbler- Anzalduas Park
147. Black-and-White Warbler
148. Common Yellowthroat
149. Wilson's Warbler
150. Olive Sparrow
151. Cassin's Sparrow- CR239 Jim Wells county
152. Chipping Sparrow
153. Black-Throated Sparrow- CR239 Jim Wells county
154. Savannah Sparrow
155. Grasshopper Sparrow- Santa Ana NWR
156. Lincoln's Sparrow
157. Swamp Sparrow
158. White-Crowned Sparrow
159. Northern Cardinal
160. Pyrrhuloxia
161. Red-Winged Blackbird
162. Eastern Meadowlark
163. Western Meadowlark
164. Yellow-Headed Blackbird- Progresso
165. Brewer's Blackbird
166. Great-Tailed Grackle
167. Bronzed Cowbird
168. Brown-Headed Cowbird
169. Hooded Oriole- Bentsen SP
170. Altamira Oriole
171. Audubon's Oriole- Salineno
172. House Finch- Anzalduas Park
173. Lesser Goldfinch
174. House Sparrow
Jon McIntyre
Corpus Christi, TX
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