A = abundant - over 50 per day; should be recorded each visit.
C = common - 15 -50 per day; should be recorded on 80% of visits.
F = fairly common - 5-15 per day or several flocks passing overhead; should be recorded on 60% of visits.
U = uncommon - less than 5 per day, or no more than 1 group per day; recorded less than 40% of visits.
R = rare - 1 to several per season, or 1 group per season.
O = Occasional - Not rare or uncommon, but somewhat unpredictable.
I = irregular and unpredictable.
Acc = accidental - out of normal range; maybe two records in a decade.
* = nests regularly.
** = has nested or probably nests in immediate vicinity; additional information needed.
Sp - spring (March-May)
S - summer (June-August)
F - fall (September-November)
W - winter (December-February)
|
SPECIES |
Sp |
S |
F |
W |
Check Space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Common Loon |
O |
|
Acc |
O |
|
|
Pied-Billed Grebe* |
C |
F |
C |
C |
|
|
Horned Grebe |
O |
|
Acc |
O |
|
|
Eared Grebe |
U |
O |
U |
U |
|
|
Blue-footed Booby |
Acc |
|
|
Acc |
|
|
American White Pelican |
U |
U |
R |
|
|
|
Double-crested Cormorant |
C |
|
C |
C |
|
|
Neotropic Cormorant |
U |
U |
U |
R |
|
|
Anhinga |
R |
I |
R |
|
|
|
Least Bittern** |
R |
R |
O |
|
|
|
Great Blue Heron** |
C |
F |
C |
C |
|
|
Great Egret |
F |
U |
F |
F |
|
|
Snowy Egret |
R |
U |
O |
|
|
|
Little Blue Heron |
U |
U |
U |
O |
|
|
Tricolored Heron |
|
R |
R |
|
|
|
Cattle Egret |
F |
F |
F |
O |
|
|
Green Heron* |
U |
U |
U |
R |
|
|
Black-crowned Night Heron |
R |
O |
|
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|
Yellow-crowned Night Heron** |
R |
R |
U |
O |
|
|
White Ibis |
O |
|
|||
|
White-faced Ibis |
|
R |
|||
|
Wood Stork |
R |
R |
|
||
|
Roseate Spoonbill |
|
O |
O |
||
|
Fulvous Whistling Duck |
O |
|
|||
|
Black-bellied Whistling Duck |
R |
R |
U |
R |
|
|
Greater White-fronted Goose |
R |
R |
|
||
|
Snow Goose |
O |
R |
O |
||
|
Canada Goose |
R |
U |
U |
||
|
Wood Duck* |
U |
U |
U |
U |
|
|
Green-winged Teal |
U |
U |
F |
|
|
|
Mottled Duck |
|
R |
R |
||
|
Mallard |
R |
R |
R |
||
|
Northern Pintail |
U |
U |
U |
||
|
Blue-winged Teal |
F |
O |
U |
F |
|
|
Northern Shoveler |
U |
U |
F |
||
|
Gadwall |
C |
U |
C |
||
|
American Wigeon |
C |
F |
C |
||
|
Canvasback |
R |
R |
|||
|
Redhead |
U |
R |
U |
||
|
Ring-necked Duck |
F |
R |
F |
||
|
Greater Scaup |
O |
||||
|
Lesser Scaup |
C |
U |
C |
||
|
Oldsquaw |
R,I |
R |
|||
|
Common Goldeneye |
R |
||||
|
Bufflehead |
U |
R |
U |
||
|
Hooded Merganser |
R |
R |
U |
||
|
Common Merganser |
O |
R |
|||
|
Red-breasted Merganser |
R |
R |
|||
|
Ruddy Duck |
F |
O |
F |
F |
|
|
Black Vulture* |
C |
C |
C |
C |
|
|
Turkey Vulture* |
A |
A |
A |
A |
|
|
Osprey |
U |
R |
U |
||
|
White-tailed Kite* |
U,I |
U,I |
U,I |
U,I |
|
|
Mississippi Kite |
U |
U |
|||
|
Bald Eagle |
R |
O |
R |
||
|
Northern Harrier |
U |
U |
U |
||
|
Sharp-shinned Hawk |
F |
U |
F |
||
|
Cooper's Hawk** |
R |
O |
U |
U |
|
|
Red-shouldered Hawk* |
F |
F |
F |
F |
|
|
Broad-winged Hawk |
U |
U |
|||
|
Swainson's Hawk |
U |
R |
U |
||
|
Zone-tailed Hawk |
R |
R |
|||
|
Red-tailed Hawk* |
F |
U |
F |
R |
|
|
Golden Eagle |
Acc |
||||
|
Crested Caracara** |
U |
U |
U |
U |
|
|
American Kestrel |
C |
C |
C |
||
|
Merlin |
R |
R |
R |
||
|
Peregrine Falcon |
R |
R |
R |
||
|
Wild Turkey |
R |
R |
R |
R |
|
|
Northern Bobwhite* |
R |
R |
R |
R |
|
|
Virginia Rail |
R |
R |
R |
||
|
Sora |
U |
R |
U |
||
|
Common Moorhen |
R |
R |
O |
||
|
American Coot |
A |
U |
A |
A |
|
|
Sandhill Crane |
U |
U |
R |
||
|
Semipalmated Plover |
R |
|
R |
|
|
|
Killdeer* |
C |
C |
C |
C |
|
|
Black-necked Stilt |
O |
|
O |
|
|
|
American Avocet |
R |
|
R |
|
|
|
Greater Yellowlegs |
U |
|
U |
|
|
|
Lesser Yellowlegs |
U |
|
U |
R |
|
|
Spotted Sandpiper |
F |
|
F |
F |
|
|
Upland Sandpiper |
C |
|
C |
|
|
|
Solitary Sandpiper |
R |
|
U |
|
|
|
Semipalmated Sandpiper |
R |
|
R |
|
|
|
Western Sandpiper |
U |
|
U |
|
|
|
Least Sandpiper |
U |
|
U |
R |
|
|
Baird's Sandpiper |
O |
|
R |
|
|
|
Pectoral Sandpiper |
R |
|
R |
|
|
|
Stilt Sandpiper |
R |
|
R |
|
|
|
Long-billed Dowitcher |
U |
|
U |
|
|
|
Common Snipe |
U |
|
R |
U |
|
|
American Woodcock |
U |
|
|
U |
|
|
Wilson's Phalarope |
R |
|
R |
|
|
|
Herring Gull |
|
|
|
R |
|
|
Franklin's Gull |
U |
|
U |
|
|
|
Ring-billed Gull |
U |
|
R |
U |
|
|
Forster's Tern |
U |
O |
R |
U |
|
|
Black Tern |
R |
|
R |
|
|
|
Rock Dove* |
U |
U |
U |
C |
|
|
Mourning Dove* |
A |
C |
A |
A |
|
|
White-winged Dove |
R |
R |
R |
R |
|
|
Inca Dove* |
U |
U |
U |
U |
|
|
Common Ground-Dove* |
U |
R |
R |
U |
|
|
Black-billed Cuckoo |
R |
|
|
|
|
|
Yellow-billed Cuckoo* |
C |
C |
R |
|
|
|
Greater Roadrunner |
U |
U |
U |
U |
|
|
Eastern Screech-Owl* |
F |
F |
F |
F |
|
|
Great Horned Owl** |
U |
U |
U |
U |
|
|
Barred Owl* |
F |
F |
F |
F |
|
|
Common Nighthawk* |
F |
C |
F |
O |
|
|
Pauraque |
O |
|
|
|
|
|
Chuck-will's-widow* |
U |
C |
|
|
|
|
Whip-poor-will |
U |
|
U |
|
|
|
Chimney Swift* |
C |
C |
C |
|
|
|
Ruby-throated Hummingbird* |
C |
C |
C |
|
|
|
Black-chinned Hummingbird |
R |
R |
R |
|
|
|
Rufous Hummingbird |
R |
|
R |
O |
|
|
Belted Kingfisher |
F |
U |
U |
F |
|
|
Green Kingfisher |
R,I |
|
|
R,I |
|
|
Red-headed Woodpecker* |
R |
R |
R |
R |
|
|
Golden-fronted Woodpecker |
|
R,I |
|
R,I |
|
|
Red-bellied Woodpecker |
C |
C |
C |
C |
|
|
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
U |
|
U |
F |
|
|
Ladder-backed Woodpecker* |
F |
F |
F |
F |
|
|
Downy Woodpecker* |
F |
U |
U |
F |
|
|
Hairy Woodpecker |
R,I |
R,I |
R,I |
U,I |
|
|
Northern Flicker |
F |
|
F |
F |
|
|
Pileated Woodpecker* |
U |
U |
U |
U |
|
|
Olive-sided Flycatcher |
U |
|
U |
I |
|
|
Eastern Wood-Pewee* |
F |
U |
U |
|
|
|
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
R |
|
U |
|
|
|
Acadian Flycatcher* |
U |
U |
R |
|
|
|
Alder Flycatcher |
R |
|
U |
|
|
|
Willow Flycatcher |
F |
|
U |
|
|
|
"Traill's" Flycatcher |
F |
|
F |
|
|
|
Least Flycatcher |
U |
|
U |
|
|
|
Hammond's Flycatcher |
|
|
|
Acc |
|
|
Eastern Phoebe |
U |
U |
U |
F |
|
|
Vermilion Flycatcher |
R,I |
|
R,I |
R,I |
|
|
Ash-throated Flycatcher |
R |
|
|
R |
|
|
Great Crested Flycatcher |
F |
F |
F |
|
|
|
Western Kingbird* |
U |
F |
U |
|
|
|
Eastern Kingbird* |
U |
R |
U |
|
|
|
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher* |
C |
C |
F |
Acc |
|
|
Purple Martin* |
C |
C |
U |
|
|
|
Tree Swallow |
U |
|
U |
O |
|
|
Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
U |
O |
F |
|
|
|
Bank Swallow |
U |
|
U |
|
|
|
Cave Swallow |
|
R |
R |
|
|
|
Cliff Swallow |
F |
F |
A |
|
|
|
Barn Swallow* |
U |
U |
C |
O |
|
|
Blue Jay* |
C |
C |
C |
C |
|
|
American Crow* |
A |
C |
A |
A |
|
|
Common Raven |
|
|
|
R |
|
|
Carolina Chickadee* |
C |
C |
C |
C |
|
|
Tufted Titmouse* |
C |
C |
C |
C |
|
|
Red-breasted Nuthatch |
R,I |
|
R,I |
U,I |
|
|
Brown Creeper |
R |
|
R |
U |
|
|
Carolina Wren* |
C |
C |
C |
C |
|
|
Bewick's Wren |
U |
U |
U |
U |
|
|
House Wren |
F |
|
F |
U |
|
|
Winter Wren |
U |
|
R |
U |
|
|
Marsh Wren |
U |
|
R |
U |
|
|
Golden-crowned Kinglet |
U,I |
|
U,I |
U,I |
|
|
Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
C |
|
C |
C |
|
|
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher* |
F |
U |
F |
R |
|
|
Eastern Bluebird |
F |
U |
U |
F |
|
|
Mountain Bluebird |
|
|
|
O |
|
|
Townsend's Solitaire |
|
|
|
O |
|
|
Veery |
R |
|
Acc |
|
|
|
Gray-cheeked Thrush |
R |
|
R |
|
|
|
Hermit Thrush |
C |
|
U |
C |
|
|
Wood Thrush* |
R |
R |
R |
O |
|
|
American Robin |
A |
R |
F |
A |
|
|
Gray Catbird |
F |
O |
U |
R |
|
|
Northern Mockingbird* |
C |
C |
C |
C |
|
|
Brown Thrasher |
F |
U |
F |
U |
|
|
American Pipit |
U |
|
U |
U |
|
|
Cedar Waxwing |
U,I |
|
U,I |
A,I |
|
|
Loggerhead Shrike* |
F |
U |
F |
F |
|
|
European Starling* |
C |
F |
C |
C |
|
|
White-eyed Vireo* |
C |
C |
C |
U |
|
|
Bell's Vireo |
R |
R |
|
O |
|
|
Black-capped Vireo |
|
Acc |
|
|
|
|
Solitary Vireo |
F |
|
F |
U |
|
|
Yellow-throated Vireo* |
U |
U |
|
|
|
|
Warbling Vireo |
U |
|
F |
|
|
|
Philadelphia Vireo |
U |
|
|
|
|
|
Red-eyed Vireo* |
F |
F |
R |
|
|
|
Blue-winged Warbler |
R |
|
R |
|
|
|
Golden-winged Warbler |
R |
|
|
|
|
|
Tennessee Warbler |
U |
|
R |
|
|
|
Orange-crowned Warbler |
F |
|
U |
F |
|
|
Nashville Warbler |
F |
|
F |
O |
|
|
Northern Parula* |
C |
C |
F |
|
|
|
Yellow Warbler |
U |
|
C |
|
|
|
Chestnut-sided Warbler |
U |
|
U |
|
|
|
Magnolia Warbler |
U |
|
R |
|
|
|
Yellow-rumped Warbler |
A |
|
C |
A |
|
|
Black-throated Gray Warbler |
Acc |
|
|
Acc |
|
|
Black-throated Green Warbler |
F |
|
F |
R |
|
|
Blackburnian Warbler |
F |
|
U |
|
|
|
Yellow-throated Warbler** |
U |
|
R |
R |
|
|
Pine Warbler* |
A |
C |
A |
A |
|
|
Palm Warbler |
R |
|
|
R |
|
|
Bay-breasted Warbler |
U |
|
R |
|
|
|
Blackpoll Warbler |
R |
|
O |
|
|
|
Cerulean Warbler |
O |
|
Acc |
|
|
|
Black-and-white Warbler* |
C |
U |
U |
R |
|
|
American Redstart |
U |
|
F |
|
|
|
Prothonotary Warbler |
U |
|
R |
|
|
|
Worm-eating Warbler |
U |
|
R |
|
|
|
Swainson's Warbler* |
R |
R |
O |
|
|
|
Ovenbird |
U |
|
O |
|
|
|
Northern Waterthrush |
F |
|
F |
|
|
|
Louisiana Waterthrush** |
U |
R |
U |
O |
|
|
Kentucky Warbler* |
F |
F |
U |
|
|
|
Mourning Warbler |
R |
|
R |
|
|
|
Common Yellowthroat** |
U |
R |
U |
U |
|
|
Hooded Warbler* |
U |
U |
R |
|
|
|
Wilson's Warbler |
U |
|
U |
R |
|
|
Canada Warbler |
R |
|
U |
|
|
|
Red-faced Warbler |
Acc |
|
|
|
|
|
Yellow-breasted Chat* |
U |
R |
U |
|
|
|
Hepatic Tanager |
R |
|
|
R,I |
|
|
Summer Tanager* |
F |
F |
U |
|
|
|
Scarlet Tanager |
U |
|
R |
|
|
|
Western Tanager |
R |
|
|
O |
|
|
Northern Cardinal* |
A |
A |
A |
A |
|
|
Pyrrhuloxia |
R |
|
|
R |
|
|
Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
U |
|
R |
|
|
|
Black-headed Grosbeak |
Acc |
|
|
|
|
|
Blue Grosbeak** |
F |
R |
F |
|
|
|
Indigo Bunting* |
F |
F |
F |
O |
|
|
Painted Bunting* |
C |
A |
U |
|
|
|
Dickcissel** |
A |
F |
C |
|
|
|
Spotted Towhee |
U |
|
R |
U |
|
|
Eastern Towhee |
F |
|
R |
F |
|
|
Chipping Sparrow |
A |
|
C |
A |
|
|
Clay-colored Sparrow |
F |
|
R |
|
|
|
Field Sparrow |
U |
R |
U |
U |
|
|
Vesper Sparrow |
U |
|
U |
F |
|
|
Lark Sparrow* |
F |
F |
F |
F |
|
|
Savannah Sparrow |
C |
|
U |
C |
|
|
Grasshopper Sparrow |
R |
|
R |
R |
|
|
LeConte's Sparrow |
R,I |
|
R,I |
U,I |
|
|
Fox Sparrow |
U |
|
R |
U |
|
|
Song Sparrow |
U |
|
R |
U |
|
|
Lincoln's Sparrow |
C |
|
U |
C |
|
|
Swamp Sparrow |
U |
|
R |
U |
|
|
White-throated Sparrow |
A |
|
C |
A |
|
|
White-crowned Sparrow |
U |
|
U |
C |
|
|
Harris's Sparrow |
R |
|
U |
F |
|
|
Dark-eyed Junco |
F |
|
U |
|
|
|
Red-winged Blackbird* |
C |
F |
C |
C |
|
|
Eastern Meadowlark* |
F |
F |
F |
F |
|
|
Western Meadowlark |
U |
|
R |
U |
|
|
Yellow-headed Blackbird |
R |
|
R |
|
|
|
Rusty Blackbird |
R,I |
|
R,I |
U,I |
|
|
Brewer's Blackbird |
O |
|
R |
U |
|
|
Great-tailed Grackle* |
F |
U |
U |
F |
|
|
Common Grackle* |
C |
R |
F |
C |
|
|
Brown-headed Cowbird* |
C |
C |
F |
C |
|
|
Bronzed Cowbird |
R |
|
R |
R |
|
|
Orchard Oriole* |
U |
R |
U |
|
|
|
Hooded Oriole |
Acc |
|
|
|
|
|
Baltimore Oriole |
U |
|
U |
O |
|
|
Bullock's Oriole |
R |
R |
R |
|
|
|
Purple Finch |
R,I |
|
|
U,I |
|
|
House Finch |
R |
|
R |
R |
|
|
Red Crossbill |
O |
|
R,I |
R,I |
|
|
Pine Siskin |
U,I |
|
U |
F |
|
|
Lesser Goldfinch |
R |
U |
|
R |
|
|
American Goldfinch |
C |
|
U |
C |
|
|
Evening Grosbeak |
Acc |
|
|
Acc |
|
|
House Sparrow* |
U |
U |
U |
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In 1983, the Texas Legislature created the Special Nongame and Endangered Species Conservation Fund. This fund may be used for nongame wildlife and endangered species research and conservation, habitat acquisition and development and dissemination of information pertaining to nongame management. Money for this fund is obtained through private donations and sale of nongame wildlife art prints and stamps. This fund now gives Texans a unique opportunity to help support this state's valuable and sensitive nongame resources. Your individual contributions and purchases of nongame art prints and stamps will help determine the level of nongame conservation activities in Texas. For more information call toll-free (1-800-792-1112) or contact: Nongame and Endangered Species Program, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Department, 4200 Smith School Road, Austin Texas 78744.
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