2007 South Texas

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Species List - 200 Species Recorded  (* indicates heard-only)

Heron Rookery at Estero Llano Grande

SPECIES DAYS RECORDED GREBES Least Grebe 2 Pied-billed Grebe 4 Eared Grebe 1 PELICANS American White Pelican 2 Brown Pelican 3 CORMORANTS Neotropic Cormorant 7 ANHINGAS Anhinga 3 HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS Great Blue Heron 5 Great Egret 8 Reddish Egret 6 Tricolored Heron 6 Little Blue Heron 5 Snowy Egret 8 Cattle Egret 5 Green Heron 7 Black-crowned Night-Heron 3 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 3 American Bittern 1 IBIS AND SPOONBILLS White Ibis 3 White-faced Ibis 2 Roseate Spoonbill 4 DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS Fulvous Whistling-Duck 1 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 7 Muscovy Duck 1 Gadwall 1 "Mexican" Mallard 2 Mottled Duck 5 Northern Pintail 2 Blue-winged Teal 5 Northern Shoveler 3 Lesser Scaup 1 Ruddy Duck 1 NEW WORLD VULTURES Black Vulture 4 Turkey Vulture 8 OSPREY Osprey 5 HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES White-tailed Kite 3 Northern Harrier 1 Harris's Hawk 6 Gray Hawk 3 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Broad-winged Hawk 2 Swainson's Hawk 7 White-tailed Hawk 3 Red-tailed Hawk 4 FALCONS AND CARACARAS Crested Caracara 5 Peregrine Falcon 1 GUANS, CHACHALACAS, CURASSOWS Plain Chachalaca 4 NEW WORLD QUAIL Scaled Quail 1 Northern Bobwhite 3 RAILS, GALLINULES AND COOTS Clapper Rail 2 Sora 1 Common Moorhen 4 American Coot 5 AVOCETS AND STILTS Black-necked Stilt 4 American Avocet 2 PLOVERS AND LAPWINGS Black-bellied Plover 3 Semipalmated Plover 1 Killdeer 3 Snowy Plover 1 SANDPIPERS Wilson's Snipe 1 Long-billed Dowitcher 3 Whimbrel 1 Long-billed Curlew 2 Greater Yellowlegs 3 Lesser Yellowlegs 4 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Spotted Sandpiper 4 Willet 4 Ruddy Turnstone 1 Red Knot 1 Sanderling 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper 2 Western Sandpiper 1 Least Sandpiper 3 Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Dunlin 2 Stilt Sandpiper 2 Wilson's Phalarope 2 GULLS Ring-billed Gull 2 American Herring Gull 1 Laughing Gull 7 Franklin's Gull 1 TERNS Gull-billed Tern 2 Caspian Tern 3 Sandwich Tern 3 Royal Tern 4 Forster's Tern 5 Least Tern 2 SKIMMERS Black Skimmer 2 PIGEONS AND DOVES Rock Pigeon 9 Red-billed Pigeon 2 Eurasian Collared-Dove 9 Mourning Dove 9 White-winged Dove 8 Common Ground-Dove 5 Inca Dove 8 White-tipped Dove 7 PARROTS Green Parakeet 1 Red-crowned Parrot 2 CUCKOOS Yellow-billed Cuckoo 6 Groove-billed Ani 2 Greater Roadrunner 2

SPECIES DAYS RECORDED BARN-OWLS Barn Owl 1 OWLS Eastern Screech-Owl 2 Great Horned Owl 1 Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl 2 *Elf Owl 1 NIGHTJARS Lesser Nighthawk 4 Common Nighthawk 3 Pauraque 3 SWIFTS Chimney Swift 2 HUMMINGBIRDS Buff-bellied Hummingbird 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 4 KINGFISHERS Ringed Kingfisher 2 Green Kingfisher 2 WOODPECKERS Golden-fronted Woodpecker 7 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 6 TYRANT FLYCATCHERS Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Black Phoebe 1 Vermilion Flycatcher 1 Ash-throated Flycatcher 5 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Brown-crested Flycatcher 5 Great Kiskadee 7 Tropical Kingbird 1 Couch's Kingbird 8 Western Kingbird 3 Eastern Kingbird 4 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 9 LARKS Horned Lark 1 SWALLOWS Purple Martin 5 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 5 Cliff Swallow 1 Cave Swallow 4 Barn Swallow 8 KINGLETS Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 WAXWINGS Cedar Waxwing 1 WRENS Cactus Wren 2 Carolina Wren 3 Bewick's Wren 4 MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS Gray Catbird 2 Northern Mockingbird 9 Long-billed Thrasher 3 Curve-billed Thrasher 4 THRUSHES Eastern Bluebird 1 Swainson's Thrush 1 Clay-colored Robin 2 CHICKADEES AND TITS Black-crested Titmouse 7 PENDULINE TITS Verdin 1 SHRIKES Loggerhead Shrike 3 CROWS AND JAYS Green Jay 7 Brown Jay 2 Tamaulipas Crow 1 Chihuahuan Raven 2 STARLINGS European Starling 9 OLD WORLD SPARROWS House Sparrow 9 VIREOS AND ALLIES White-eyed Vireo 2 Philadelphia Vireo 1 FINCHES, SISKINS, CROSSBILLS Lesser Goldfinch 2 WOOD WARBLERS Tennessee Warbler 3 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Northern Parula 1 Yellow Warbler 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Ovenbird 1 Northern Waterthrush 2 Common Yellowthroat 5 Canada Warbler 1 TANAGERS AND ALLIES Summer Tanager 1 BUNTINGS, SEEDEATERS, ALLIES White-collared Seedeater 1 SPARROWS, TOWHEES, JUNCOS Olive Sparrow 7 *Botteri's Sparrow 1 Cassin's Sparrow 1 Lark Sparrow 2 Black-throated Sparrow 2 Lark Bunting 1 Grasshopper Sparrow 1 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 Swamp Sparrow 1 SALTATORS, CARDINALS AND ALLIES Northern Cardinal 8 Pyrrhuloxia 2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Blue Grosbeak 2 Indigo Bunting 2 Painted Bunting 3 Dickcissel 3 BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, GRACKLES, ETC. Red-winged Blackbird 9 Eastern Meadowlark 5 Brewer's Blackbird 1 Great-tailed Grackle 9 Bronzed Cowbird 8 Brown-headed Cowbird 6 Altamira Oriole 6 Hooded Oriole 5 Baltimore Oriole 4 Bullock's Oriole 2 Orchard Oriole 1 Audubon's Oriole 2