2007 South Texas - Other Critters

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The area south of the Brazos River is rich in diversity with much of the area being more closely aligned with northern Mexico than the United States.  Following are the lists of some other species seen and identified by at least some members of the group.  Hey, we don't just look at birds!  With so many great photographs available, it was hard to choose some representative ones, but here is just a taste of South Texas natural history.

Reptiles & Amphibians American Alligator Indigo Snake Texas Rat Snake Red-backed Ribbon Snake Western Diamondback Rattlesnake Red-eared Slider Giant Toad Mexican Whiptail Four-lined Skink Mesquite Lizard Rose-bellied Lizard Mammals Spotted Ground Squirrel Mexican Ground Squirrel Fox Squirrel Eastern Cottontail Desert Cottontail Coyote Beaver Nutria White-tailed Deer Javelina Feral Hog Unicorn (Nilgai) More Birds Black Skimmer White Ibis Bathing Painted Bunting Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tri-colored Heron Brown Pelican

Insects Ants Fire Ants!!!! Beetles Eyed Click Beetle       Butterflies Pipevine Swallowtail Black Swallowtail Polydamas Swallowtail Giant Swallowtail Ornythion Swallowtail Checkered White Great Southern White Southern Dogface Sleepy Orange Little Yellow Dainty Sulphur Cloudless Sulphur Orange-barred Sulphur Lyside Sulphur Gray Hairstreak Red-bordered Pixie Zebra Gulf Fritillary Variegated Fritillary Phaon Crescent Texan Crescent Bordered Patch Question Mark Red Admiral American Painted Lady Buckeye Hackberry Emperor Tawny Emperor American Snout Queen Carolina Satyr Brown Longtail Teleus Longtail Sickle-winged Skipper Mournful Duskywing Common Checkered-Skipper Laviana White-Skipper Fiery Skipper Clouded Skipper Celia's Roadside Skipper Dragonflies/Damselflies Bronzed River Cruiser Blue Dasher Spot-tailed Dasher Roseate Skimmer Amelia's Threadtail   Red Knots Neotropic Cormorant  Great Kiskadee