Birds seen (and heard only) in South Texas, 26 March--2 April, 2000.
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*Abundance Codes: 1 = just one seen (or heard); 2 = 2-8; 3 = 9 to 20 or so;
4 = scores!; 5 = hundreds!!; 6 = thousands!!!
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**Locality Codes:
*** = widespread in RGV and up to Kingsville
KS = Kingsville/Sarita area
EC = El Canelo Ranch near Raymondville
ER = El Rio RV Park at "Chapeno"
FD = Falcon Dam and Falcon SP
SA = Salineno boat landing
BR = Bentsen Rio Grande Valley SP
SN = Santa Ana NWR
AN = Anzalduas Co. Park
WE = Weslaco cemetery/Audubon Park and residential areas
WL = Weslaco Llano Grande waterbird habitat
ZA = Zapata
PI = Padre Island
IS = Old Port Isabel Rd.
LA = Laguna Atascosa NWR
HA = Harlingen ("Thicket" park)
CW = Chihuahua Woods TNC Preserve (near BR)
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Abundance Code* Locality Codes**
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Podicipedidae (grebes)
Pied-billed Grebe 3 ***
Least Grebe 1 ER
Pelecanidae (pelicans)
American White Pelican 4 SN,KS,WL,IS,LA
Brown Pelican 1 PI
Phalacrocoracidae (cormorants)
Double-crested Cormorant 3 ***
Neotropic Cormorant 2 SN,SA,ER
Anhingidae
Anhinga 1 SA
Ardeidae (herons)
Great Blue Heron 3 ***
Great Egret 4 ***
Cattle Egret 3 KS,IS
Snowy Egret 4 ***
Reddish Egret 2 IS,PI,LA
Little Blue Heron 1 WL
Tricolored Heron 2 WL,SN,IS,LA
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2 SA,ER
Threskiornithidae
White Ibis 4 IS
White-faced Ibis 4 LA,KS,SN,WL
Roseate Spoonbill 3 WL,LA
Anatidae (ducks, geese)
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 4 ***
Fulvous Whistling-Duck 3 AN,WL
Muscovy Duck 1/2 SA,ER
Green-winged Teal 3 WL,IS
Blue-winged Teal 5 ***
Cinnamon Teal 2 SA,WL
American Wigeon 5 ***
Mallard 2 SN,SA,ER
Mottled Duck 3 SN,ER,LA
Northern Pintail 2 LA
Northern Shoveler 5 ***
Gadwall 3 ***
Redhead 2 SA,KS
Lesser Scaup 3/4 ***
Ring-necked Duck 3 SA,ER
Ruddy Duck 4 SN,SA,KS,WL
Bufflehead 2 SA
Ciconiidae (New World vultures, storks)
Turkey Vulture 4/5 ***
Black Vulture 3 ***
Falconiformes (hawks, falcons)
Osprey 2/3 ***
White-tailed Kite 2 HA,SA,LA
Northern Harrier 3 ***
Broad-winged Hawk 5 ***
Gray Hawk 2 BR,AN
Red-tailed Hawk 2 KS
Swainson's Hawk 3 ***
Harris's Hawk 3 ***
White-tailed Hawk 1 KS
Cooper's Hawk 2 EC,SA
American Kestrel 2 KS,EC
Merlin 1 EC
Peregrine Falcon 2 AN
Aplomado Falcon 2 (a pair) IS
Crested Caracara 3/4 ***
Galliformes (upland game birds)
Plain Chachalaca 3 ***
Wild Turkey 2 EC
Northern Bobwhite 1 FD
Rallidae (rails, coots)
Sora 2 PI
American Coot 4 ***
Common Moorhen 3 ***
Charadriiformes (shorebirds)
Killdeer 3 ***
Black-bellied Plover 2 IS,PI,LA
American Avocet 4 SN,IS,LA,WL
Black-necked Stilt 4 ***
Greater Yellowlegs 3 SN,IS,LA,WL
Lesser Yellowlegs 3 SN,IS,LA,WL
Spotted Sandpiper 2 SN,ER
Stilt Sandpiper 3 WL,IS,LA
Least Sandpiper 3 WL,IS,LA
Western Sandpiper 2 WL
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1 WL
Pectoral Sandpiper 2 PI
Dunlin 1 WL
Long-billed Dowitcher 4 KS,WL,SN
Short-billed Dowitcher 4 PI,IS,LA
Willet 3 IS,PI,LA
Whimbrel 2 IS
Long-billed Curlew 4 IS,PI,LA
Marbled Godwit 2 PI
American Oystercatcher 2 PI
Wilson's Phalarope 1 SN
[NOTE: 1000s of shorebirds at LA too distant to ID]
Laridae (gulls, terns)
Laughing Gull 5 ***
Ring-billed Gull 4 IS,PI,LA
Common Tern 2 LA
Forster's Tern 3 KS,SN,AN,SA,ER,PI
Gull-billed Tern 3 IS
Royal Tern 3 PI
Caspian Tern 3 SN,ER,WL,AN
Black Skimmer 2 PI
Columbidae (doves)
Rock Dove 4 ***
Mourning Dove 5 ***
Common Ground Dove 3 ***
Inca Dove 4 ***
White-winged Dove 2 *** except KS,EC
White-tipped Dove 3 *** except KS,EC
Red-billed Pigeon 2 SA,ER
Psittacidae (parrots)
Red-crowned Parrot 3 WE
Green Parakeet 3 WE,HA
Coccyzidae (New World Cuckoos)
Greater Roadrunner 2 FD,ER,CW
Strigidae + Tytonidae (owls)
Barn Owl 1 ER
(Great Horned Owl) 2 ER,BR,FD
Eastern Screech Owl 2 WE,BR,ER
Ferruginous Pygmy-owl 2 (1 pair) EC
Elf Owl 2 (1 pair) BR
Caprimulgidae (goatsuckers)
Pauraque 4 ***
Apodiformes (swifts, hummingbirds)
Chimney Swift 3 WE,HA,ER
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 2 WE
Black-chinned Hummingbird 2 WE
Alcedinidae (kingfishers)
Belted Kingfisher 2 ***
Ringed Kingfisher 2 BR,ER
Green Kingfisher 2 ER
Picidae (woodpeckers)
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 4 ***
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 3 ***
Tyrannidae (flycatchers) + Becards
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet 2 (1 pair) BR
Black Phoebe 1 WL
Vermilion Flycatcher 2 KS,FD
Ash-throated Flycatcher 2 EC,FD,BR,HA
Brown-crested Flycatcher 2 BR
Great Kiskadee 4 ***
Tropical Kingbird (?) 1/2 AN
Couch's Kingbird 4 ***
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 5 ***
Rose-throated Becard 1 AN
Laniidae (shrikes)
Loggerhead Shrike 2 ***
Alaudidae (larks)
Horned Lark 2 IS
Hirudinidae (swallows)
Purple Martin 2/3 KS,AN
Bank Swallow 2 ER
Barn Swallow 3 IS,PI,LA
Cliff Swallow 3 FD
Cave Swallow 4 KS,WL,EC
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 4 ER,SN,AN,BR,KS
Tree Swallow 3 KS
Corvidae (jays, crows)
Green Jay 4 ***
Brown Jay 2 ER
Chihuahuan Raven 2/3 ER,FD,ZA,IS
Paridae (chickadees)
Tufted Titmouse 4 ***
Remizidae
Verdin 1 LA
Troglodytidae (wrens)
House Wren 2 KS,LA,FD,SN
Marsh Wren 2 PI
Bewick's Wren 3 EC,FD,LA,IS,ER
Carolina Wren 2 WE
Cactus Wren 3 ***
Sylviidae (kinglets)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3 ***
Muscicapidae (true thrushes)
Eastern Bluebird 2 KS
Clay-colored Robin 1 SN
Sturnidae (mimic thrushes, starlings)
Northern Mockinbgird 4 ***
(Blue Mockingbird) 1 WE
Long-billed Thrasher 2/3 EC,BR,LA,HA,WE
Curve-billed Thrasher 3 ER,KS,BR,AN,FD
European Starling 4 ***
Vireonidae (vireos)
White-eyed Vireo 2 WE,HA
Fringillidae
Emberizinae/Parulini (wood warblers)
Black-throated Green Warbler 1 WE
Black-throated Gray Warbler 1 WE
Nashville Warbler 3 WE,SN,BR
Orange-crowned Warbler 3/4 ***
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2/3 KS,LA,BR
Northern Parula 2 WE
Tropical Parula 1 BR
Worm-eating Warbler 2 LA
Common Yellowthroat 2 WE,SN,ZA
Gray-crowned Yellowthroat 1 SN
Emberizinae/Thraupini (tanagers)
(Summer Tanager) 2 KS
Emberizinae/Cardinalini
Northern Cardinal 4 ***
Pyrruhloxia 3 ***
Emberizinae/Icterini (blackbirds, orioles)
Eastern Meadowlark 3 EC,KS,FD
Brewer's Blackbird 4 EC,KS
Red-winged Blackbird 6 ***
Great-tailed Grackle 5 ***
Brown-headed Cowbird 4 EC,KS
Bronzed Cowbird 3 ***
Hooded Oriole 1 KS
Altamira Oriole 3 WE,BR,AN,ER,FD
Audubon's Oriole 2 ER
Emberizinae/Emberizini (sparows, buntings, longspurs...)
White-collared Seedeater 2 (1 pair) ZA
Olive Sparrow 3 ***
(Black-throated Sparrow) 1 ZA
Cassin's Sparrow 3 ***
Chipping Sparrow 4 ***
Clay-colored Sparrow 3 ***
Field Sparrow 1 SA
Lark Sparrow 3 EC,FD,KS
Lincoln's Sparrow 3 ***
Savannah Sparrow 2 SA,ER,PI
Song Sparrow 2 EC
Vesper Sparrow 1 KS
White-crowned Sparrow 1 EC
Indigo Bunting 2 BR
Fringillinae/Carduelini (finches, crossbills)
American Goldfinch 2/3 KS,HA,WE
Lesser Goldfinch 2 WE
Passeridae
Ploceinae (weavers)
House Sparrow 4 ***
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