Species |
Comments |
Least Grebe |
SA & SP where numerous |
Pied-billed Grebe |
|
Slavonian Grebe |
1 at LA - in with 1000's of Coot
on Laguna |
American White Pelican |
Kemah Boardwalk, Houston & SS |
Brown Pelican |
All coastal locations |
Double-crested Cormorant |
|
Great Blue Heron |
|
Great Egret |
|
Reddish Egret |
|
Tricoloured Heron |
|
Little Blue Heron |
|
Snowy Egret |
|
Black-crowned Night Heron |
Regularly towards dusk, Kemah
Boardwalk, Houston |
Wood Stork |
Approach road to LA only |
White Ibis |
SS |
Roseate Spoonbill |
Small flock over approach road to
LA. Also SS |
Black-bellied
Whistling-duck |
PE |
American Wigeon |
Rio Grande at SL, SC |
Gadwall
|
|
Mallard |
|
Northern Pintail |
SS |
Blue-winged Teal |
SP |
Northern Shoveler |
|
Redhead |
LA, SP etc |
Lesser Scaup |
LA only |
Ruddy
Duck |
LA |
Black Vulture |
Rio Grande at SL |
Turkey Vulture |
|
Osprey |
|
Hook-billed Kite |
One probable along Rio Grande at
SL |
Northern Harrier |
|
Sharp-shinned Hawk |
Probably also Cooper's but not
confident on IDs to claim both |
Harris' Hawk |
SA, LA approach road, road to Boca
Chica beach etc |
Grey
Hawk |
Ad & juv at BE |
Red-shouldered Hawk |
SA |
White-tailed Hawk |
Route 150 near Bayview, SE of
Harligen only |
Red-tailed Hawk |
Over fields
near SP |
Crested Caracara |
Widespread in SL, FA area. Also 2
at LA |
American Kestrel |
|
Plain Chachalaca |
At nearly all RGV site feeders,
apart from SL |
Sandhill Crane |
Flock in flight from LA approach
road |
Virginia Rail |
One at dusk at SC boardwalk |
American Coot |
LA etc |
Black-necked Stilt |
|
American Avocet |
|
Grey Plover |
LA, SS |
Semipalmated Plover |
SC |
Killdeer |
LA |
Piping Plover |
SC |
Kentish Plover |
SC |
Wilson's Snipe |
Flock at Willow Lake SA |
Long-billed Curlew |
LA |
Greater Yellowlegs |
SA |
Lesser Yellowlegs |
|
Spotted Sandpiper |
Rio Grande at SL |
Willet |
LA, Boca Chica Beach etc |
Ruddy Turnstone |
|
Sanderling |
|
Western Sandpiper |
|
Least Sandpiper |
|
Dunlin |
|
Stilt Sandpiper |
SA |
Ring-billed Gull |
Boca Chica Beach |
American Herring Gull |
|
Laughing Gull |
|
Caspian Tern |
|
Royal
Tern |
|
Forster's Tern |
|
Mourning Dove |
|
White-winged Dove |
SL, SC |
Common Ground-dove |
|
Inca Dove |
At most RGV site feeders |
White-tipped Dove |
At most RGV site feeders |
Green Parakeet |
10th in north McAllen between
Violet & Dove |
Greater Roadrunner |
FA, LA |
Buff-bellied
Hummingbird |
QM, SP |
Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
QM only |
Ringed Kingfisher |
3 at Rio Grande at SL |
Green Kingfisher |
SA, SP |
Golden-fronted
Woodpecker |
Common at most RGV feeders and
also at PE |
Ladder-backed
Woodpecker |
BE feeders only |
Least Flycatcher |
1 at SP |
Eastern Phoebe |
|
Vermilion Flycatcher |
2 at PE, 1 at FA |
Great Kiskadee |
Widespread from QM onwards |
Couch's
Kingbird |
1 at SP behind visitor centre |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
|
Carolina Wren |
|
Bewick's Wren |
2 on nature trail at FA |
Grey Catbird |
|
Northern Mockingbird |
|
Long-billed Thrasher |
QM and other RGV sites |
Curve-billed Thrasher |
More obvious than above |
Clay-coloured Robin |
1 at QM on main feeders behind
house (ID'd from photo) |
Blue-grey Gnatcatcher |
|
Black-crested
Titmouse |
|
Verdin |
1 at FA |
Loggerhead Shrike |
|
Green
Jay |
At all feeding
stations? |
Common Starling |
|
Blue-headed Vireo |
Glimpse of 1-2 at SP |
Orange-crowned Warbler |
Abudant |
Magnolia Warbler |
1 prob this at SC |
Prairie Warbler |
1 at SC |
Black-and-white Warbler |
1 at QM, 1 Frontera Aududon
Thicket, Weslaco |
American Redstart |
1 at SC |
Common Yellowthroat |
1 at SC |
Wilson's Warbler |
1 at SP |
Red-crested Cardinal |
|
Olive Sparrow |
First glimpsed at SA. Better views
on SL feeders |
Clay-coloured Sparrow |
2 at feeders at FA |
Lark Sparrow |
A few by approach road to SL |
Black-throated Sparrow |
With Lark Sparrow at SL, FA |
Lincoln's Sparrow |
SL |
Pyrrhuloxia |
By approach road to SL, SL 'dirt
road', FA & 1 'sparrow alley' dirt road N of
La Joya |
Red-winged Blackbird |
|
Great-tailed Grackle |
Very abundant in all towns/cities
in area! |
Bronzed Cowbird |
Only identified at PE |
Altamira Oriole |
2 at Ebony Grove feeders, BE. Also
1-2 SL |
Hooded Oriole |
1-2 at SL |
Audubon's Oriole |
1-2 at SL |