Check out the next Rio Grande Tour, February 2015!
| Areas Visited in LRG Valley:
Santa Ana NWR, Alamo |
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| Habitats: fresh and salt-water marsh, thickets, scrub, farmland, resacas (ox-bow lakes), river, seacoast | Time: generally 7-11 am/1-4pm (excluding travel time) |
| Weather: temps generally 70s-80s, humid and sunny; infrequent showers | Altitude: sea level |
| Temps: 60's-high 80's | Wind: generally slight to none |
| Observers: TP, KC, OH, MH, JM |
Species Observed: 110 |
| Summary of Natural Science Observations | |
| Birds Observed: |
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Cormorants |
Gulls/Terns |
Flycatchers |
| Double-crested |
Laughing Gull |
Couch's Flycatcher |
| Neo- tropical Cormorant | Royal Tern |
Tropical Flycatcher |
| Anhingas | Caspian Tern |
Great Kiskadee |
| Anhinga | Kingfishers |
Eastern Phoebe |
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Ducks, Wildfowl |
Belted Kingfisher |
Swallows |
| Black-bellied Whistling-Duck | Ringed Kingfisher |
Barn Swallow |
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Blue-wing Teal |
Green Kingfisher |
Tree Swallow |
| Green-winged Teal | Rails, Coots | Shrikes |
Black Duck |
Gallinule |
Loggerhead |
| Muscovy Duck | Coot | Thrushes |
Ring -Billed Duck |
Sora |
Hermit Thrush |
| Ruddy Duck | Cuckoos | Mimic Thrushes |
| Cinnamon Teal | Greater Roadrunner | Mockingbird |
| Fulvous Whistling-Duck | Hummingbirds | Long-billed Thrasher |
| Pintail | Buff-bellied | Catbird |
| Shoveler | Ruby-throated | Wrens |
| Mottled Duck | Hawks | Marsh Wren (H/P) |
Common Merganser |
Crested Caracara |
Titmice/Chickadees |
Gadwall |
Osprey |
Black Crested Titmouse |
| Scaup, sp? | White-tailed Kite | Corvids: (Jays, Crows) |
| Grebes | Zone-tailed Hawk | Green Jay |
| Least Grebe | Harris Hawk | Starlings |
Pied-billed Grebe |
Kestrel |
European Starling |
| Egrets/Herons/Ibis | White-tailed Hawk | Blackbirds, Orioles |
| Great Egret | Northern Harrier | Great-tailed Grackle |
| Tri-colored Heron | Cooper’s Hawk | Red-wing Blackbird |
| Little Blue Heron | New World Vultures | Cowbird |
| Snowy Egret | Turkey Vulture | Altamira Oriole (P) |
| White Ibis | Black Vulture | Kinglets |
| Cattle Egret | Owls | Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
| Great Blue Heron | Eastern Screech owl | Vireos |
| Reddish Egret | Guans, Chachalacas | White-eyed Vireo |
| Pelicans | Plain Chachalaca | Warblers |
| Brown Pelican | Parrots | Wilson’s Warbler |
| White Pelican | Red-crowned Parrot | Nashville Warbler |
| Avocets/Stilts | Goatsuckers, Nighthawks | Orange-crowned |
| Avocet | Pauraque | Yellow-rumped |
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Red-legged Stilt |
Pigeons/Doves | Yellow-throated |
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Plovers |
Rock Dove | Buntings and Allies |
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Killdeer |
Mourning Dove | Cardinal |
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Sandpipers |
White-winged Dove |
Sparrows |
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Least Sandpiper |
White-tipped Dove |
Lark Sparrow |
| Long billed Curlew | Inca Dove | Olive Sparrow |
| Willet | Woodpeckers | White-throated Sparrow |
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Western Sandpiper |
Golden-fronted Woodpecker |
Song Sparrow |
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Dunlin |
Ladder-back Woodpecker |
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Dowitcher, sp? |
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A: abundant. H: hear. sev: several. C: common. UC: uncommon. sp: species. P: probable ID. (?) ID questionable. S: singing. F: flying. M: male. F: female.
! : Unexpected. * With young/immature
