Laguna Atascosa NWR (LTC 024), Cameron, Texas, US
Apr 21, 2017 8:25 AM - 12:10 PM
Protocol: Traveling
18.0 mile(s)
Comments: Laguna Atascosa NWR Bird Tour: Visitor Center to Dam #1 of
Laguna Atascosa Lake to FM 106 back Gator Pond Rd to Visitor Center
68 species (+1 other taxa)
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 1
American Wigeon 13
Mottled Duck 5
Blue-winged Teal 23
Northern Shoveler 7
Northern Bobwhite 14
Wild Turkey 2 heard only
Neotropic Cormorant 1
Double-crested Cormorant 7
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 2
Snowy Egret 4
Little Blue Heron 7
Tricolored Heron 11
Reddish Egret 2 one red, one white
White Ibis 3
White-faced Ibis 30
Roseate Spoonbill 2
Black Vulture 14
Turkey Vulture 17
Osprey 1
Harris's Hawk 2
Common Gallinule 1
American Coot 208
Black-necked Stilt 5
Black-bellied Plover 2
Wilson's Plover 8
Killdeer 4
Whimbrel 1
Long-billed Curlew 5
Stilt Sandpiper 6
Dunlin 3
Least Sandpiper 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper 2
Long-billed Dowitcher 22
Greater Yellowlegs 4
Willet 13
Lesser Yellowlegs 2
Least Tern 3
Gull-billed Tern 14
Caspian Tern 2
Forster's Tern 16
Royal Tern 2
Mourning Dove 28
Greater Roadrunner 1
Great Horned Owl 1 eastern
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 4
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 2
Crested Caracara 2
Aplomado Falcon 1 defending nest box area: chased off Turkey Vulture
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Brown-crested Flycatcher 1
Great Kiskadee 1
Couch's Kingbird 4
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 2
Barn Swallow 4
Cave Swallow 5
Long-billed Thrasher 1
Northern Mockingbird 16
Yellow Warbler 1
Cassin's Sparrow 4
sparrow sp. 2
Northern Cardinal 3
Red-winged Blackbird 17
Eastern Meadowlark 5
Great-tailed Grackle 125
Bronzed Cowbird 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
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Jo Rita Knopf
RV Volunteer @ Laguna Atascosa NWR (thru Apr 2017)
208.521.4367 (Idaho Falls, ID)
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