Southern Texas 2011 17-24 Apr 2011 by Henry Detwiler Starting with a pair of Whooping Cranes on Sunday the 17th, twelve fine Swedish birders and I had the pleasure of touring Texas together.    Yellow Rail Muscovy Duck Green Parakeet Clay-colored Robin Buff-bellied Hummingbird Golden-cheeked Warbler Common Loon Least Grebe Pied-billed Grebe Magnificent Frigatebird Brown Pelican American White Pelican Anhinga Double-crested Cormorant Neotropic Cormorant Black-crowned Night Heron Cattle Egret Great Egret Great Blue Heron Green Heron Least Bittern Little Blue Heron Reddish Egret Snowy Egret Tricolored Heron Yellow-crowned Night Heron Roseate Spoonbill White Ibis White-faced Ibis Whooping Crane Black-bellied Whistling Duck Blue-winged Teal Fulvous Whistling Duck Gadwall Mottled Duck Red-breasted Merganser Redhead Northern Shoveler Wood Duck Virginia Rail Clapper Rail Common Moorhen American Coot King Rail Purple Gallinule Sora American Oystercatcher American Avocet Black-necked Stilt Wilson's Plover Black-bellied Plover American Golden Plover Killdeer Piping Plover Semipalmated Plover Snowy Plover Baird's Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Dunlin Greater Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper Lesser Yellowlegs Long-billed Curlew Long-billed Dowitcher Marbled Godwit Pectoral Sandpiper Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Whimbrel Willet Herring Gull Laughing Gull Ring-billed Gull Caspian Tern Forster's Tern Black Skimmer Black Tern Common Tern Gull-billed Tern Least Tern Royal Tern Sandwich Tern Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Harris' Hawk Swainson's Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Gray Hawk Northern Harrier Osprey Red-tailed Hawk Mississippi Kite White-tailed Kite Swallow-tailed Kite American Kestrel Crested Caracara Peregrine Falcon Bobwhite Wild Turkey Plain Chachalaca Eurasian Collared Dove Inca Dove Common Ground-Dove Mourning Dove Rock Pigeon White-winged Dove White-tipped Dove Red-billed Pigeon Greater Roadrunner Yellow-billed Cuckoo Eastern Screech Owl Elf Owl Chuck-Will's-Widow Whip-poor-will Common Nighthawk Common Pauraque Chimney Swift Black-chinned Hummingbird Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Ringed Kingfisher Downy Woodpecker Golden-fronted Woodpecker Ladder-backed Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Red-cockaded Woodpecker Red-headed Woodpecker Couch's Kingbird Acadian Flycatcher Ash-throated Flycatcher Black Phoebe Brown-crested Flycatcher Eastern Wood Pewee Eastern Kingbird Great Crested Flycatcher Great Kiskadee Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tropical Kingbird Vermilion Flycatcher Western Kingbird Horned Lark Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Cave Swallow Cliff Swallow Purple Martin Northern Rough-winged Swallow Tree Swallow Blue Jay Green Jay American Crow Fish Crow Chihuahuan Raven Common Raven Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Verdin Brown-headed Nuthatch Bewick's Wren Carolina Wren Cactus Wren Sedge Wren Eastern Bluebird Veery Swainson's Thrush Gray-cheeked Thrush Black-tailed Gnatcatcher Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Loggerhead Shrike Brown Thrasher Curve-billed Thrasher Long-billed Thrasher Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird European Starling Bell's Vireo Hutton's Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Warbling Vireo White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo American Redstart Nashville Warbler Swainson's Warbler Tennessee Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Hooded Warbler Magnolia Warbler N. Parula N. Waterthrush Orange-crowned Warbler Ovenbird Palm Warbler Pine Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Common Yellowthroat Canyon Towhee Northern Cardinal Indigo Bunting Painted Bunting Pyrrhuloxia Rose-breasted Grosbeak Spotted Towhee Cassin's Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Lark Bunting Lark Sparrow Olive Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Altamira Oriole Scott's Oriole Boat-tailed Grackle Bronzed Cowbird Brown-headed Cowbird Common Grackle Eastern Meadowlark Great-tailed Grackle Hooded Oriole Bullock's Oriole Baltimore Oriole Orchard Oriole Red-winged Blackbird Scarlet Tanager Summer Tanager Western Tanager Yellow-headed Blackbird House Sparrow Dickcissel House Finch Lesser Goldfinch Pine Siskin Black-capped Vireo White-tailed Hawk Black-crested Titmouse Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Seaside Sparrow Return to Trip Report Smith Woods Rookery, High Island

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