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Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus subsp. mexicanus) Hazel Bazemore Park, Calallen, Nueces County, Texas, USA. Gulf Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Zone. Situated in the Nueces-Rio Grande Coastal Basin at ca. 4 m (13 ft) elevation. Margin of small depressional pond among Saltgrass...
Great Southern White (Ascia monuste: Pieridae) Wingspan 4.4-6.4 cm (1.75-2.5 in). Male, species sexually dimorphic. Pollywog Pond Bird and Wildlife Sanctuary, Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, USA. Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Area. Nueces River Basin. Sewage treatment...
American Coot (Fulica americana subsp. americana) Sexes similar. The troublemaker. Leonabelle Turnbull Nature Center, Port Aransas, Nueces County, Texas, USA. Coastal marsh plus a thin gallery forest against a coastal marsh with a boardwalk leading into the marsh.
Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus: Portunidae) Pollywog Pond Bird and Wildlife Sanctuary, Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, USA. Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Area. Nueces River Basin. Sewage treatment ponds with riparian woods at ca. 27 m ( 90 ft). In small drainage feeding...
Great Pondhawk (Erythemis visculosa: Libellulidae) Male, species slightly sexually dimorphic. Female paler. 5.5-6.5 cm (2.2-2.6 in) long. Pollywog Pond Bird and Wildlife Sanctuary, Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, USA. Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Area. Nueces River Basin...
Green Heron (Butorides virescens subsp. virescens) Sexes similar. Leonabelle Turnbull Nature Center, Mustang Island, Port Aransas, Nueces County, Texas, USA. Barrier Island, coastal marsh plus a thin gallery forest against a coastal marsh with a boardwalk leading into the marsh.
American Coot (Fulica americana subsp. americana) Sexes similar. Mother and fledgeling. Leonabelle Turnbull Nature Center, Port Aransas, Nueces County, Texas, USA. Coastal marsh plus a thin gallery forest against a coastal marsh with a boardwalk leading into the marsh.
Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata) Females, species sexually dimorphic. Hazel Bazemore Park, Calallen, Nueces County, Texas, USA. Gulf Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Zone. Situated in the Nueces-Rio Grande Coastal Basin at ca. 4 m (13 ft) elevation. Small depressional pond.
Snowy Egret (Egretta thula subsp. thula) Photographed on Mustang Island, east of Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, USA. Mustang Island is a 29 kilometer (18 mi) long barrier island and is representative of the Gulf Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Area. Its bordered on the west by Corpus...
Snowy Plover (Chardrius nivosus subsp. nivosus) The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service list the most western populations (California, Oregon, Washington) as Threatened while listing other populations as a species of concern. Though it is the same subspecies across the US they refer to the western...
Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) The U.S. Fish & Wildlife list this species as threatened everywhere except in the Great Lakes Watershed in the U.S. where it is considered Endangered. Photographed in Oso Bay, Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, USA. Muddy tidal flats.
Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus texanus) Five subspecies are recognized with two being mapped for Texas. Subspecies texanus is found in South Texas and along the coast from the Coastal Bend southward and ranges south to Central Mxico. Photographed just west of Flour Bluff near Oso Bay...
Least Tern (Sterna antillarum antillarum) Three subspecies are recognized with two being mapped for Texas. Subspecies athalassos is known as the Interior Least Tern and is listed as Federally and State Endangered. Sexes similar. Photographed on Mustang Island on the Gulf of Mexico side...
Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis acuflavidus) There are two or three recognized subspecies with only subspecies acuflavidus mapped for Texas. Many authors today recognized subspecies eurygnatha (one of the three subspecies) as a distinct species as Cabots Tern. Sexes similar. Photographed...
Black Tern (Chilidonias niger surinamensis) There are two recognized subspecies with only subspecies surinamensis migrating through Texas. Sexes similar. In molt from breeding to non-breeding plumage. Photographed on Mustang Island on the Gulf of Mexico side, southwest of Port Aransas, Nueces...
Mexican Free-tailed Bat also known as the Brazilian Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana: Molossidae) It is the official state bat of Texas and Oklahoma and happens to be the icon for Bacardi rum. These colonial nesting bats are 8.9-10.2 cm (3.5-4.0 in) in length with a wingspan of...
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea caerulea) There are nine recognized subspecies with two being mapped for Texas. Subspecies amoenissima is a non breeding bird in western Texas while the nominate is both a breeding bird to North and Central Texas and a wintering bird in Texas from...
Stilt Sandpiper (Calidris himantopus) Sexes similar. Photographed in Hazel Bazemore County Park, Calallen, Nueces County, Texas, USA. Small shallow pond in the Nueces River floodplain at ca. 1 m (3.3 ft) elevation.
Yellow-throated Warbler (Setophaga dominica albilora) Three subspecies have been described including the nominate. Some authors recognize all three subspecies and other authors do not recognize any subspecies. When subspecies are recognized this would be subspecies albilora. Photographed in...
Willet (Tringa semipalmata inornatus) Two subspecies are recognized with both being found in Texas. The nominate subspecies semipalmata breeds in Texas but does not winter here. Semipalmata is generally gone from Texas by the end of July. The western subspecies inornatus is present year round...
Tawny Emperor (Asterocampa clyton: Nymphalidae) Wingspan ranges from 5.8-7.0 cm (2.00-2.76 in). Photographed in Bishop, Nueces County, Texas, USA. Urban setting in the Gulf Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Area at 16.8 m (55 ft) elevation. Nectaring on the flowers of an Anaqua tree (Ehretia...
Steel-blue Cricket Hunter (Chlorion aerarium: Sphecidae) This attractive thread-wasted wasp is about 2.5 cm (1 in) long. Photographed in a transitional riparian forest in Hazel Bazemore Park, a Nueces County Park in Calallen, Texas, USA at ca 9 m (30 ft) elevation.