birdWalker | Paradise Birding Texas Day 5

Photos by Bill Walker

Plain Chachalaca, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, TX, Apr 17, 2004

Bronzed Cowbird, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, TX, Apr 17, 2004

Green Jay, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, TX, Apr 17, 2004

Neotropic Cormorant, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, TX, Apr 17, 2004

Blue-winged Teal, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, TX, Apr 17, 2004

Common Gallinule, Brownsville, TX, Apr 17, 2004

Ringed Kingfisher, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, TX, Apr 17, 2004

White-tipped Dove, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, TX, Apr 17, 2004

Great Kiskadee, Brownsville, TX, Apr 17, 2004

Long-billed Thrasher, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, TX, Apr 17, 2004

White-winged Dove, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, TX, Apr 17, 2004

Clapper Rail, Brownsville, TX, Apr 17, 2004

Tricolored Heron, Brownsville, TX, Apr 17, 2004

Semipalmated Plover, Brownsville, TX, Apr 17, 2004

Black-bellied Plover, Brownsville, TX, Apr 17, 2004

Buff-bellied Hummingbird, Brownsville, TX, Apr 17, 2004

Couch's Kingbird, Brownsville, TX, Apr 17, 2004

Least Bittern, Brownsville, TX, Apr 17, 2004

Solitary Sandpiper, Brownsville, TX, Apr 17, 2004

Long-billed Dowitcher, Brownsville, TX, Apr 17, 2004

Golden-fronted Woodpecker, Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, TX, Apr 17, 2004

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Trip Notes

Sabal Palm Grove Sanctuary, Laguna Madre Nature Trail, Hwy 100, Old Port Isabel Road

Trip Map

95 Species at 2 Locations

Anatidae (Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl)

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck B

Mottled Duck B

Blue-winged Teal SPAS

Cracidae (Guans, Chachalacas, and Curassows)

Plain Chachalaca SPAS

Several birds posed cooperatively at the feeders by the visitor's center.

Podicipedidae (Grebes)

Least Grebe SPAS

Phalacrocoracidae (Cormorants and Shags)

Neotropic Cormorant SPAS

Anhingidae (Anhingas)

Anhinga SPAS

Pelecanidae (Pelicans)

American White Pelican B

Brown Pelican B

Ardeidae (Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns)

Least Bittern B

Great Blue Heron B

Great Egret B

Snowy Egret B

Little Blue Heron B

Tricolored Heron B

Reddish Egret B

Cattle Egret B

Green Heron B

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron SPAS

Threskiornithidae (Ibises and Spoonbills)

White Ibis B

White-faced Ibis B

Roseate Spoonbill B

Cathartidae (New World Vultures)

Black Vulture B

Pandionidae (Osprey)

Osprey B

Accipitridae (Hawks, Eagles, and Kites)

Harris's Hawk B

Short-tailed Hawk SPAS

Rallidae (Rails, Gallinules, and Coots)

Clapper Rail B

King Rail B

Sora B

Common Gallinule B

Charadriidae (Plovers and Lapwings)

Black-bellied Plover B

I originally marked this photo as a Sanderling, but Ron Pittaway notes that it is in fact a Black-bellied Plover

Semipalmated Plover B

Piping Plover B

Killdeer B

Recurvirostridae (Stilts and Avocets)

Black-necked Stilt B

Scolopacidae (Sandpipers and Allies)

Solitary Sandpiper B

Greater Yellowlegs B

Willet B

Lesser Yellowlegs B

Long-billed Curlew B

Marbled Godwit B

Ruddy Turnstone B

Sanderling B

Western Sandpiper B

Least Sandpiper B

Dunlin B

Short-billed Dowitcher B

Long-billed Dowitcher B

Laridae (Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers)

Laughing Gull B

Herring Gull B

Least Tern B

Gull-billed Tern B

Caspian Tern B

Royal Tern B

Sandwich Tern B

Black Skimmer B

Columbidae (Pigeons and Doves)

Rock Pigeon B

White-winged Dove SPAS

Mourning Dove B

White-tipped Dove SPAS

Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Buff-bellied Hummingbird B

Alcedinidae (Kingfishers)

Ringed Kingfisher SPAS

Seen from the photo blind at the Resaca at Sabal Palm. I originally marked this photo as a Green Kingfisher, but Ron Pittaway notes that it is in fact a Ringed Kingfisher.

Green Kingfisher SPAS

Seen from the photo blind at the Resaca at Sabal Palm.

Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Golden-fronted Woodpecker SPAS

Ladder-backed Woodpecker B

Falconidae (Falcons and Caracaras)

Crested Caracara B

Aplomado Falcon B

this particular bird was wearing two bands. Given the banding and the location, we believe this bird is not ABA-countable.

Tyrannidae (Tyrant Flycatchers)

Brown-crested Flycatcher B

Great Kiskadee B

Couch's Kingbird B

Western Kingbird B

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher B

Corvidae (Crows, Jays, and Magpies)

Green Jay SPAS

Chihuahuan Raven B

Alaudidae (Larks)

Horned Lark B

Hirundinidae (Swallows)

Purple Martin B

Barn Swallow B

Paridae (Chickadees and Tits)

Black-crested Titmouse B

Troglodytidae (Wrens)

Sedge Wren B

Several were calling from opposite the Botteri's sparrow on Old Port Isabel Road.

Mimidae (Mockingbirds and Thrashers)

Northern Mockingbird B

Long-billed Thrasher SPAS

Sturnidae (Starlings)

European Starling B

Parulidae (New World Warblers)

Common Yellowthroat B

Northern Parula B

Emberizidae (Buntings and New World Sparrows)

Olive Sparrow SPAS

Botteri's Sparrow B

Many of these birds were calling from the side of Old Port Isabel Road, but none would show themselves.

Swamp Sparrow B

Cardinalidae (Cardinals and Allies)

Summer Tanager B

Indigo Bunting B

Icteridae (Troupials and Allies)

Red-winged Blackbird B

Eastern Meadowlark B

Great-tailed Grackle B

Bronzed Cowbird SPAS

Altamira Oriole B

Passeridae (Old World Sparrows)

House Sparrow B

Legend

Brownsville, TX = B

Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary, TX = SPAS