Hi, all!
Yesterday Team Birder Patrol embarked on an unofficial Birdathon to help
raise funds for Frontera Audubon: we started pre-dawn in Harlingen and
picked up the Canada Goose, then headed to Sabal Palm where the highlights
included Cerulean Warblers and a Yellow-throated Vireo! OPIR was next for
the Aplomado Falcon and others, then the Hwy 48 Boat Ramp (Wilson's Plover)
and SPI, with highlights there being Black-billed Cuckoo, Wood Thrush, and
Blue Grosbeak! (We also had what was probably a very dark Savannah Sparrow,
but comments welcome!) Hit pay dirt again at Weaver Road with all the
expected grasspipers (including Buff-breasted Sandpiper) and an added show
of almost 20 juvenile Swainson's Hawks sitting in the fields! After a quick
check of the Ebony Resacas we hit Oliviera Park for the parrot show and
logged all the expected species except for Lilac-crowned. The "official"
tally was 144, but total species logged was 146! A few pictures are on my
Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/marybeth.stowe
Bird List (those with a * are species that only one of us heard/saw):
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
Canada Goose Branta canadensis
Gadwall Anas strepera
Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula
Blue-winged Teal Anas discors
Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata
Northern Pintail Anas acuta
Redhead Aythya americana
Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
Plain Chachalaca Ortalis vetula
Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus
Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
Brown Pelican
Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus
Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus
Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret Ardea alba
Snowy Egret Egretta thula
Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
Reddish Egret Egretta rufescens
Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
Green Heron Butorides virescens
Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
White Ibis Eudocimus albus
*Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
Osprey Pandion haliaetus
White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus
Harris's Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus
Gray Hawk Buteo plagiatus
Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni
Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris
Sora Porzana carolina
Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
American Coot Fulica americana
Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
American Avocet
Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola
American Golden-Plover Pluvialis dominica
Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia
Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
Willet Tringa semipalmata
Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus
Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
Sanderling Calidris alba
Dunlin Calidris alpina
Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
Buff-breasted Sandpiper Calidris subruficollis
Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus
Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
Least Tern Sternula antillarum
Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus
Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
Black Skimmer Rynchops niger
Rock Pigeon Columba livia
Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto
White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi
Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus
Common Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis
Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
Buff-bellied Hummingbird Amazilia yucatanensis
Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana
Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius
Ladder-backed Woodpecker Picoides scalaris
Crested Caracara Caracara cheriway
American Kestrel Falco sparverius
Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
Green Parakeet Aratinga holochlora
Red-crowned Parrot Amazona viridigenalis
Red-lored Parrot Amazona autumnalis
Yellow-headed Parrot Amazona oratrix
White-fronted Parrot Amazona albifrons
Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus tyrannulus
Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
Couch's Kingbird Tyrannus couchii
Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus
Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons
Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
Green Jay Cyanocorax yncas
Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
*Purple Martin Progne subis
Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
Black-crested Titmouse Baeolophus atricristatus
Verdin Auriparus flaviceps
Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
Bewick's Wren Thryomanes bewickii
Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina
Clay-colored Thrush Turdus grayi
Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
Curve-billed Thrasher Toxostoma curvirostre
Long-billed Thrasher Toxostoma longirostre
Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
European Starling Sturnus vulgaris
Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
Tennessee Warbler Oreothlypis peregrina
Nashville Warbler Oreothlypis ruficapilla
Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
Cerulean Warbler Setophaga cerulea
Northern Parula Setophaga americana
Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata
Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
Olive Sparrow Arremonops rufivirgatus
Cassin's Sparrow Peucaea cassinii
Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
Summer Tanager Piranga rubra
Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
Pyrrhuloxia Cardinalis sinuatus
Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus
Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
Hooded Oriole Icterus cucullatus
Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
Lesser Goldfinch Spinus psaltria
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
146 SPECIES
Mary Beth Stowe
Alamo, TX
www.miriameaglemon.com
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