Last week we went to the Rio Grande Valley Bird Fest in Harlingen, TX.
Between the festival trips and some birding on our own we saw 148 species,
one billion mosquitoes, and many border patrol agents. The list is below
with the Rio Grande specialties in bold:
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
*Mallard (Mexican)*
*Mottled Duck*
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Ruddy Duck
*Plain Chachalaca*
Northern Bobwhite
*Least Grebe*
Pied-billed Grebe
Wood Stork
*Neotropic Cormorant*
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Reddish Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
White Ibis
White-faced Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
White-tailed Kite
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
*Harris's Hawk*
*White-tailed Hawk*
*Gray Hawk*
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Sora
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Black-necked Stilt
Black-bellied Plover
Piping Plover
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Dunlin
Least Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Inca Dove
Common Ground-Dove
*White-tipped Dove*
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Greater Roadrunner
*Eastern Screech-Owl (McCall's)*
*Common Pauraque*
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
*Buff-bellied Hummingbird*
*Ringed Kingfisher*
Belted Kingfisher
*Green Kingfisher*
*Golden-fronted Woodpecker*
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
*Crested Caracara*
American Kestrel
*Aplomado Falcon*
Green Parakeet
Red-crowned Parrot
Black Phoebe
Eastern Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher
*Great Kiskadee*
*Tropical Kingbird*
*Couch's Kingbird*
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
*Green Jay*
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Cave Swallow
Barn Swallow
*Black-crested Titmouse*
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Carolina Wren
Bewick's Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
*Clay-colored Thrush*
Curve-billed Thrasher
*Long-billed Thrasher*
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Black-and-white Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Northern Parula
Bay-breasted Warbler
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
*Olive Sparrow*
Black-throated Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Summer Tanager
Western Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Indigo Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Great-tailed Grackle
Bronzed Cowbird
Hooded Oriole
*Altamira Oriole*
*Audubon's Oriole*
House Sparrow
Brewer's Duck (Pintail X Gadwall)
--John & Sheri
