Lower Rio Grande Valley (McAllen, Texas) Trip List,
02/05/09 - 02/09/09
(* = Lifelist bird)

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck    
Greater White-fronted Goose    
Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mottled Duck  
Blue-winged Teal    
Cinnamon Teal    
Northern Shoveler    
Northern Pintail    
Green-winged Teal    
Canvasback    
Ring-necked Duck    
Lesser Scaup    
Ruddy Duck    
*Plain Chachalaca    
*Least Grebe    
Pied-billed Grebe    
American White Pelican    
*Neotropic Cormorant    
Double-crested Cormorant    
Anhinga    
Great Blue Heron    
Great Egret    
Snowy Egret    
Little Blue Heron    
Tricolored Heron    
Cattle Egret    
Green Heron    
Black-crowned Night-Heron    
White Ibis    
White-faced Ibis    
Black Vulture    
Turkey Vulture    
Osprey    
*Hook-billed Kite  (one female at Bentsen RGV SP)
White-tailed Kite    
Northern Harrier    
Sharp-shinned Hawk    
Cooper's Hawk    
Gray Hawk    
Harris's Hawk    
Red-shouldered Hawk     
*White-tailed Hawk    
Red-tailed Hawk    
Ferruginous Hawk    
Crested Caracara    
American Kestrel    
Common Moorhen    
American Coot    
Killdeer    
Black-necked Stilt    
American Avocet    
Spotted Sandpiper    
Greater Yellowlegs    
Lesser Yellowlegs    
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper    
Wilson's Snipe    
Laughing Gull    
pale-backed gull sp.   
Rock Pigeon    
*Red-billed Pigeon    
Eurasian Collared-Dove    
White-winged Dove    
Mourning Dove    
Inca Dove    
Common Ground-Dove    
*White-tipped Dove    
*Green Parakeet    
*Red-crowned Parrot    
Greater Roadrunner    
Eastern Screech-Owl    
*Common Pauraque    
*Buff-bellied Hummingbird    
Ruby-throated/Black-chinned Hummingbird    
Rufous Hummingbird    
*Ringed Kingfisher    
Belted Kingfisher    
*Green Kingfisher    
*Golden-fronted Woodpecker    
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker    
Ladder-backed Woodpecker    
Empidonax sp.    
Black Phoebe    
Eastern Phoebe    
Vermilion Flycatcher    
*Great Kiskadee    
Tropical Kingbird    
*Couch's Kingbird    
Loggerhead Shrike    
White-eyed Vireo    
Blue-headed Vireo    
*Green Jay
(Black-throated Magpie-Jay)
Tree Swallow    
Northern Rough-winged Swallow    
Black-crested Titmouse    
Cactus Wren    
Carolina Wren    
Bewick's Wren    
House Wren    
Ruby-crowned Kinglet    
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher    
*Clay-colored Thrush (seven total at four different sites)
American Robin (only one seen!)
Northern Mockingbird    
Sage Thrasher    
*Long-billed Thrasher    
Curve-billed Thrasher    
European Starling    
American Pipit    
Orange-crowned Warbler    
Nashville Warbler    
Yellow-rumped Warbler    
Black-throated Gray Warbler    
Black-throated Green Warbler    
Yellow-throated Warbler    
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler (one at Sabal Palm)
Black-and-white Warbler    
Common Yellowthroat    
Wilson's Warbler    
*Olive Sparrow    
Cassin's Sparrow    
Chipping Sparrow    
Savannah Sparrow    
Lincoln's Sparrow    
*Crimson-collared Grosbeak (one female at Frontera Audubon)
Northern Cardinal    
Pyrrhuloxia    
*Blue Bunting (one male at Estero Llano SP)
Indigo Bunting    
Red-winged Blackbird    
Western Meadowlark    
Brewer's Blackbird    
Great-tailed Grackle    
Brown-headed Cowbird    
*Altamira Oriole    
*Audubon's Oriole (two at Salineno feeders)
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch    
House Sparrow