Yesterday (1/19), Steve Taylor and I did a January big day. We began at 2am
and birded in the dark through Rockport, Tivoli, Goliad, and eventually Choke
Canyon at daybreak. We then birded Victoria, Guadalupe River Delta, Aransas
NWR, Goose Island SP, Indian Point Park, and ended the day in Port Aransas. We
ended the day with 168 species. See below for a complete list.
1. Black-Bellied Whistling-Duck
2. Gadwall
3. American Wigeon
4. Mallard
5. Mottled Duck
6. Blue-Winged Teal
7. Cinnamon Teal (Choke Canyon SP)
8. Green-Winged Teal
9. Northern Shoveler
10. Northern Pintail
11. Canvasback (Choke Canyon SP/Aransas NWR)
12. Redhead
13. Ring-Necked Duck
14. Lesser Scaup
15. Bufflehead
16. Common Goldeneye
17. Red-Breasted Merganser
18. Ruddy Duck
19. Common Loon
20. Least Grebe
21. Pied-Billed Grebe
22. Eared Grebe
23. Horned Grebe (Aransas NWR)
24. American White Pelican
25. Brown Pelican
26. Neotropic Cormorant
27. Double-Crested Cormorant
28. Anhinga (Lamar)
29. American Bittern (PA Birding Center)
30. Least Bittern (PA Birding Center)
31. Great Blue Heron
32. Great Egret
33. Snowy Egret
34. Little Blue Heron
35. Tricolored Heron
36. Reddish Egret
37. Green Heron
38. Black-Crowned Night-Heron
39. White Ibis
40. White-Faced Ibis
41. Roseate Spoonbill
42. Black Vulture
43. Turkey Vulture
44. Osprey
45. White-Tailed Kite (Choke Canyon SP)
46. Northern Harrier
47. Cooper's Hawk
48. Harris's Hawk
49. Red-Shouldered Hawk
50. White-Tailed Hawk
51. Red-Tailed Hawk
52. Crested Caracara
53. American Kestrel
54. Merlin (PA Birding Center)
55. Aplomado Falcon (Hwy. 361 near Port Aransas)
56. Peregrine Falcon
57. Clapper Rail (Cove Harbor- Rockport)
58. King Rail (River Road- GRD)
59. Sora
60. Common Gallinule
61. American Coot
62. Sandhill Crane
63. Whooping Crane (Lamar)
64. Black-Bellied Plover
65. Snowy Plover
66. Semipalmated Plover
67. Piping Plover
68. Killdeer
69. American Oystercatcher
70. Black-Necked Stilt
71. American Avocet
72. Greater Yellowlegs
73. Lesser Yellowlegs
74. Willet
75. Whimbrel (Goose Island SP)
76. Long-Billed Curlew
77. Marbled Godwit
78. Ruddy Turnstone
79. Sanderling
80. Western Sandpiper
81. Least Sandpiper
82. Dunlin
83. Short-Billed Dowitcher
84. Long-Billed Dowitcher
85. Laughing Gull
86. Ring-Billed Gull
87. Herring Gull
88. Gull-Billed Tern (River Road- GRD)
89. Caspian Tern
90. Royal Tern
91. Forster's Tern
92. Black Skimmer
93. Rock Pigeon
94. Eurasian Collared-Dove
95. White-Winged Dove
96. Mourning Dove
97. Greater Roadrunner
98. Great Horned Owl
99. Burrowing Owl (Refugio county)
100. Barred Owl (Goliad county)
101. Common Pauraque
102. Belted Kingfisher
103. Golden-Fronted Woodpecker
104. Red-Bellied Woodpecker
105. Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
106. Ladder-Backed Woodpecker
107. Downy Woodpecker (Riverside Park)
108. Pileated Woodpecker (Riverside Park)
109. Eastern Phoebe
110. Vermilion Flycatcher
111. Great Kiskadee
112. Couch's Kingbird
113. Loggerhead Shrike
114. White-Eyed Vireo
115. Blue-Headed Vireo
116. Blue Jay (Riverside Park)
117. Green Jay
118. American Crow
119. Carolina Chickadee
120. Tufted Titmouse
121. Black-Crested Titmouse
122. Verdin (Choke Canyon SP)
123. Cactus Wren (Choke Canyon SP)
124. Carolina Wren
125. Bewick's Wren
126. House Wren
127. Winter Wren (River Road- GRD)
128. Sedge Wren (River Road- GRD)
129. Marsh Wren
130. Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
131. Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
132. Eastern Bluebird
133. Hermit Thrush
134. Northern Mockingbird
135. Long-Billed Thrasher
136. European Starling
137. American Pipit
138. Sprague's Pipit (Refugio county)
139. Orange-Crowned Warbler
140. Yellow-Rumped Warbler
141. Black-Throated Green Warbler (Riverside Park)
142. Pine Warbler
143. Black-and-White Warbler (Riverside Park)
144. Common Yellowthroat
145. Wilson's Warbler (Riverside Park)
146. Olive Sparrow (Choke Canyon SP)
147. Chipping Sparrow
148. Vesper Sparrow
149. Black-Throated Sparrow (Choke Canyon SP)
150. Savannah Sparrow
151. LeConte's Sparrow (Aransas county)
152. Lincoln's Sparrow
153. Swamp Sparrow
154. White-Crowned Sparrow
155. Northern Cardinal
156. Pyrrhuloxia
157. Red-Winged Blackbird
158. Eastern Meadowlark
159. Western Meadowlark
160. Brewer's Blackbird
161. Common Grackle
162. Boat-Tailed Grackle
163. Great-Tailed Grackle
164. Brown-Headed Cowbird
165. Audubon's Oriole (Choke Canyon SP)
166. House Finch (Riverside Park)
167. American Goldfinch
168. House Sparrow
Jon McIntyre
Corpus Christi, TX
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