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Monday 14th April 2003, 03:37
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Texas Coast Trip List
Here's my trip list from a weekend on the northeastern section of the Upper Texas Coast. Most of the birds were seen at Sabine Woods, a migrant trap near Sabine Pass, TX. Others were seen in the Big Thicket, the piney woods area north of Beaumont. Misses include Bachman's Sparrow, Scarlet Tanager and Yellow-billed Cuckoo, but who can complain about 114 species!
I got one lifer - Fish Crow. It was easily seen at the Catttail Marsh in Tyrell Park, Beaumont. Year birds are noted by an asterisk (*). GREBES Pied-billed Grebe PELICANS American White Pelican Brown Pelican CORMORANTS Double-crested Cormorant Neotropic Cormorant HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS Great Blue Heron Great Egret Tricolored Heron Snowy Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron American Bittern IBIS AND SPOONBILLS White Ibis White-faced Ibis DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler NEW WORLD VULTURES Black Vulture Turkey Vulture OSPREY Osprey HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Swainson's Hawk RAILS, GALLINULES AND COOTS Common Moorhen American Coot AVOCETS AND STILTS Black-necked Stilt PLOVERS AND LAPWINGS Killdeer SANDPIPERS Long-billed Dowitcher Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper *Wilson's Phalarope (females molting into breeding plumage) GULLS Ring-billed Gull Laughing Gull TERNS Gull-billed Tern Forster's Tern PIGEONS AND DOVES Rock Dove Mourning Dove Inca Dove SWIFTS Chimney Swift HUMMINGBIRDS Ruby-throated Hummingbird KINGFISHERS Belted Kingfisher WOODPECKERS Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker TYRANT FLYCATCHERS *Eastern Wood-Pewee *Acadian Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Scissor-tailed Flycatcher SWALLOWS Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow KINGLETS Ruby-crowned Kinglet WRENS Carolina Wren MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher THRUSHES *Veery *Swainson's Thrush (even had one singing its beautiful song) *Wood Thrush (seen and heard) American Robin GNATCATCHERS Blue-gray Gnatcatcher CHICKADEES AND TITS Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse SHRIKES Loggerhead Shrike CROWS AND JAYS Blue Jay American Crow FISH CROW European Starling VIREOS AND ALLIES White-eyed Vireo *Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Red-eyed Vireo WOOD WARBLERS Blue-winged Warbler *Tennessee Warbler Northern Parula *Chestnut-sided Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler *Prairie Warbler *Cerulean Warbler Black-and-white Warbler *American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler *Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler *Yellow-breasted Chat TANAGERS AND ALLIES Summer Tanager SPARROWS, TOWHEES, JUNCOS Savannah Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-throated Sparrow SALTATORS, CARDINALS AND ALLIES Northern Cardinal *Rose-breasted Grosbeak *Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting *Painted Bunting BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, GRACKLES, ETC. Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Boat-tailed Grackle Common Grackle Great-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird *Baltimore Oriole Orchard Oriole OLD WORLD SPARROWS House Sparrow |
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Monday 14th April 2003, 21:32
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That's some list. What distinguished the Fish Crow from the Am. Crow? Was it the voice, or could you compare it's smaller size against the other species?
Have you ever seen the Tamaulipas Crow, Corvus imparatus? I heard that they come up as far as Brownsville (sometimes) Cheers. |
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Tuesday 15th April 2003, 02:19
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Hi, Steve: The Fish Crow is distinguished from American Crow by its very different vocalization. It sounds like a toy, actually, or a compressed, higher-pitched 'caw' than the American. It's really quite comical to hear them. They are somewhat smaller than American Crow, but I was not in a position to directly compare the two species side by side.
I've not seen Tamaulipas Crow. They've been really inconsistent down in Brownsville, their normal Texas haunt. I did meet up with some ladies this weekend who'd videoed and audioed the Tamaulipas Crow in Brownsville last month, because they knew that they'd have to strongly back their sighting. Apparently, American Crow occurs there as well and many people have just called any crow they saw a Tamaulipas. I've seen others do this with the Whooping Cranes at Aransas NWR here in Texas. People will climb to the platform of the Observation Deck, see a Great Egret (another large white bird), call it a Whooping Crane, and drive back home. Too bad they missed the real thing. Thanks for your interest. Steve in Houston
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Wednesday 8th July 2009, 18:38
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Hi again, Steve.
Did you see most of the viroes, warblers and thrushes in the Big Thicket? If so, could you suggest a good location or two? I've only been to the Thicket once, in springtime, and I saw virtually no birds! Jeff |
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