[bcbirdclub] Re: RGVBF Trip

  • From: Don Carrier <tnbirder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "BCBC Listserve" <bcbirdclub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 01:12:06 +0000

I am a little jealous!

Don

------ Original Message ------
From: "John Kelly" <johnpeterkelly@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "BCBC Listserve" <bcbirdclub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 11/9/2015 12:27:46 PM
Subject: [bcbirdclub] RGVBF Trip

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

Other related posts: