[texbirds] Hidalgo County Shorebirding
- From: MiriamEagl@xxxxxxx
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 18:24:36 -0400 (EDT)
Hi, all!
Pat Heirs felt sorry for me and offered to take me birding today :-), so I
cheated and decided to include this day as part of my "Big Week"! We had a
ball: the full trip report with pictures is on my blog, but the highlight
was a flooded field to the east along FM 1015 just north of FM 1422 that
was just STUFFED with shorebirds! Specialties included Buff-breasted Sands,
Pectoral Sands, one Upland Sand, and a couple of Golden Plovers! Besides
that, tons of yellowlegs and dowitchers... We also stopped at the Hargill
Playa (Pat got the Wilson's Plover; I just got the Snowy) and Delta Lake
(thought we had a Hudsonian Godwit, but it was just a bright dowitcher doing
a good impersonation... ;-)) Just a few hours of birding tallied 64 species!
Full report and pics:
http://miriameaglemon.com/Trip%20Reports/Big%20Week%202014/Day%202%20Hidalgo
%20County%20Shorebirding.html
Bird List:
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula
Blue-winged Teal Anas discors
Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata
Redhead Aythya americana
Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus
Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus
Great Egret Ardea alba
Snowy Egret Egretta thula
Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi
Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni
Sora Porzana carolina
American Coot Fulica americana
Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
American Golden-Plover Pluvialis dominica
Snowy Plover Charadrius nivosus
Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa
Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
Buff-breasted Sandpiper Calidris subruficollis
Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
Least Tern Sternula antillarum
Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
Rock Pigeon Columba livia
Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto
White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons
Crested Caracara Caracara cheriway
Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus tyrannulus
Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis
Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus
Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
Bank Swallow Riparia riparia
Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
Cave Swallow Petrochelidon fulva
Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
European Starling Sturnus vulgaris
Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
Dickcissel Spiza americana
Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
Bronzed Cowbird
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
64 SPECIES
So far: 87 SPECIES
Mary Beth Stowe
McAllen, TX
_www.miriameaglemon.com_ (http://www.miriameaglemon.com/)
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