Birds Seen in Texas in 2004 in Chronological Order
(NOT a "Big Year"**)
(441 species seen as of November
20, 20 04)
1. Jan. 1 (TC*)-Great-tailed Grackle
2. Mourning Dove
3. Rufous Hummingbird
4. Blue Jay
5. House Sparrow
6. White-winged Dove
7. American Goldfinch
8. Starling
9. Northern Cardinal
10. Downy Woodpecker
11. Red-bellied Woodpecker
12. Carolina Wren
13. Orange-crowned Warbler
14. Inca Dove
15. Cedar Waxwing
16. American Kestrel
17. Ring-billed Gull
18. Red-tailed Hawk
19. Double-crested Cormorant
20. Loggerhead Shrike
21. Eastern Meadowlark
22. Short-eared Owl
23. Northern Bobwhite
24. Great Horned Owl
25. Jan. 2 (TC) American Robin
26. House Finch
27. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
28. Jan. 3 (TC) Killdeer
29. Song Sparrow
30. American Crow
31. Carolina Chickadee
32. Tufted Titmouse
33. Eastern Phoebe
34. Northern Flicker
35. Eastern Bluebird
36. Black Vulture
37. Savannah Sparrow
38. Bonaparte's Gull
39. Turkey Vulture
40. Great Blue Heron
41. Mallard
42. Gadwall
43. Northern Pintail
44. Northern Shoveler
45. Green-winged Teal
46. American Wigeon
47. Ross's Goose
48. American Coot
49. Bufflehead
50. Rusty Blackbird
51. Common Yellowthroat
52. Red-winged Blackbird
53. Greater Yellowlegs
54. Least Sandpiper
55. Vesper Sparrow
56. White-crowned Sparrow
57. Rock Dove
58. Ring-necked Duck
59. Great Egret
60. Lesser Scaup
61. Pied-billed Grebe
62. Greater Scaup
63. Brewer's Blackbird
64. Brown-headed Cowbird
65. Common Grackle
66. Jan. 4 (TC) Eastern Screech-Owl
67. American Woodcock
68. Lesser Black-backed Gull
69. Jan. 6 (TC) Cooper's Hawk
70. Northern Mockingbird
71. Glaucous-winged Gull
72. Herring Gull
73. Jan. 7 (TC) Eurasian Collared-Dove
74. Jan. 8 (TC) Northern Harrier
75. Brown Creeper
76. Bewick's Wren
77. American Pipit
78. Spotted Sandpiper
79. Horned Grebe
80. Forster's Tern
81. Harris's Sparrow
82. Belted Kingfisher
83. Fox Sparrow
84. Field Sparrow
85. Dark-eyed Junco
86. Monk Parakeet
87. Jan. 10 (TC) Prairie Falcon
88. Ladder-backed Woodpecker
89. Jan. 11 (Fayette Co.) Pine Warbler
90. (Lavaca Co.) Wilson's Snipe
91. Jan. 12 (HC) Great Kiskadee
92. Couch's Kingbird
93. Plain Chachalaca
94. Golden-fronted Woodpecker
95. Green Jay
96. White-tipped Dove
97. House Wren
98. N. Beardless-Tyrannulet
99. White-faced Ibis
100. Altamira Oriole
101. Black-crested Titmouse
102. Blue-headed Vireo
103. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
104. Black-throated Gray Warbler
105. Black-and-white Warbler
106. White-eyed Vireo
107. Greater White-fronted Goose
108. Buff-bellied Hummingbird
109. Harris's Hawk
110. Lesser Yellowlegs
111. Black-necked Stilt
112. Blue-winged Teal
113. Sora
114. Snowy Egret
115. Tree Swallow
116. Olive Sparrow
117. Green Kingfisher
118. White-tailed Kite
119. Long-billed Curlew
120. Osprey
121. Black-throated Green Warbler
122. Tropical Parula
123. Gray Hawk
124. Amer. White Pelican
125. Cattle Egret
126. Least Grebe
127. Crested Caracara
128. Indigo Bunting
129. Common Pauraque
130. Jan. 13 (HC) Clay-colored Robin
131. (Willacy Co.) Common Ground-Dove
132. Lark Sparrow
133. Horned Lark
134. White-tailed Hawk
135. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
136. (Kenedy Co.) Fulvous Whistling-Duck
137. Mottled Duck
138. Canvasback
139. Redhead
140. Jan. 15 (TC) Sharp-shinned Hawk
141. Red-throated Loon
142. Jan. 16 (TC) Eared Grebe
143. Jan. 17 (SA*) Red-shouldered Hawk
144. Yellow-rumped Warbler
145. Greater Pewee
146. Vermilion Flycatcher
147. Verdin
148. Long-billed Dowitcher (prob.)
149. Black-crowned Night-Heron
150. Ruddy Duck
151. Jan. 21 (TC) White-throated Sparrow
152. (PC*) Western Meadowlark
153. (PC) Spotted Towhee
154. Jan. 23 (GC*) Snow Goose
155. Canada Goose
156. Hooded Merganser
157. Jan. 24 (WC*) Mountain Plover
158. Jan. 30 (TC) McCown's Longspur
159. Lapland Longspur
160. Chestnut-collared Longspur
161. Jan. 31 (Wise Co.) Chipping Sparrow
162. Feb. 5 (TC) Wild Turkey
163. Golden-crowned Kinglet
164. Feb. 7 (TC) Hermit Thrush
165. Feb. 8 (NC) Laughing Gull
166. Feb. 9 (NC) Yellow-legged Gull
167. Sanderling
168. Dunlin
169. Black-bellied Plover
170. Snowy Plover
171. Red-breasted Merganser
172. Little Blue Heron
173. Willet
174. Reddish Egret
175. Tricolored Heron
176. Ruddy Turnstone
177. Brown Pelican
178. Peregrine Falcon
179. Neotropic Cormorant
180. Feb. 10 (Goliad Co.) Sandhill Crane
181. Pyrrhuloxia
182. (Dewitt Co.) Cave Swallow
183. Feb. 12 (NC) White Ibis
184. Cinnamon Teal
185. Gull-billed Tern
186. Caspian Tern
187. Black Skimmer
188. Royal Tern
189. Northern Gannet
190. Common Loon
191. Feb. 13 (NC) Roseate Spoonbill
192. (Matagorda Co.) Whooping Crane
193. Marbled Godwit
194. Swamp Sparrow
195. (NC) Virginia Rail
196. Feb. 14 NC) Piping Plover
197. (Kleberg Co.) Western Sandpiper
198. (NC) Purple Martin
199. Northern Waterthrush
200. Marsh Wreb
201. Least Bittern
202. Common Moorhen
203. Feb. 15 (NC) Clapper Rail
204. (Crockett Co.) Chihuahuan Raven
205. (Pecos Co.) Curve-billed Thrasher
206. Feb. 16 (JD) Canyon Towhee
207. Western Bluebird
208. Western Scrub-Jay
209. Bush-Tit
210. Williamson's Sapsucker
211. White-breasted Nuthatch
212. Red-naped Sapsucker
213. Acorn Woodpecker
214. Lesser Goldfinch
215. Cactus Wren
216. Black-throated Sparrow
217. Black Phoebe
218. Say's Phoebe
219. (Reeves Co.) Scaled Quail
220. Common Goldeneye
221. Clark's Grebe
222. Feb. 17 (CU) Ferruginous Hawk
223. Crissal Thrasher
224. Sage Thrasher
225. (HuC) Sage Sparrow
226. Lark Bunting
227. Roadrunner
228. Golden Eagle
229. (JD) Bald Eagle
230. Feb. 18 (BC) Lincoln's Sparrow
231. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
232. Phainopepla
233. Common Raven
234. Feb. 20 (HuC) Western Grebe
235. Common Merganser
236. Yellow-headed Blackbird
237. (JD) Rock Wren
238. Feb. 21 (PR) Green-tailed Towhee
239. Gambel's Quail
240. Brewer's Sparrow
241. Feb. 26 (KeC) Barn Swallow
242. (CaC) Nashville Warbler
243. Broad-winged Hawk
244. Ovenbird
245. Long-billed Thrasher
246. Feb. 27 (CaC) Gray-crowned Yellowthroat
247. Solitary Sandpiper
248. Gray Catbird
249. Groove-billed Ani
250. (HC) Ringed Kingfisher
251. N. Rough-winged Swallow
252. Bank Swallow
253. Green Parakeet
254. Feb. 28 (HC) Red-crowned Parrot
255. Mar. 8 (NC) Sandwich Tern
256. Mar. 13 (TC) Wood Duck
257. Mar. 15 (Potter) Long-tailed Duck
258. (Moore) Burrowing Owl
259. Mar. 16 (Dallam) Am. Tree Sparrow
260. Ring-necked Pheasant
261. Mar. 17 (Lipscomb) Lesser Prairie-Chicken
262. (Hemphill) Barred Owl
263. Winter Wren
264. Apr. 5 (TC) Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
265. Apr. 6 (TC) Chimney Swift
266. Apr. 9 (TC) Pectoral Sandpiper
267. Common Snipe
268. Baird's Sandpiper
269. Franklin's Gull
270. Summer Tanager
271. Swainson's Hawk
272. Apr. 10 (TC) Upland Sandpiper
273. Grasshopper Sparrow
274. Apr. 16 (TC) Cliff Swallow
275. Apr. 17 (Burnet) Black-capped Vireo
276. Yellow-breasted Chat
277. Apr. 19 (Walker) Great Crested Flycatcher
278. Eastern Kingbird
279. (San Jacinto) Mississippi Kite
280. (Liberty) Swallow-tailed Kite
281. Apr. 20 (JE) Orchard Oriole
282. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
283. American Bittern
284. Sedge Wren
285. Boat-tailed Grackle
286. Green Heron
287. American Redstart
288. Blue Grosbeak
289. Red-eyed Vireo
290. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
291. Brown Thrasher
292. (GA) Yellow-billed Cuckoo
293. Wood Thrush
294. Painted Bunting
295. Tennessee Warbler
296. Swainson's Thrush
297. Whimbrel
298. Least Tern
299. Red Knot
300. Semipalmated Plover
301. Wilson's Plover
302. Common Nighthawk
303. Apr. 21 (CH) Seaside Sparrow
304. Stilt Sandpiper
305. White-rumped Sandpiper
306. Wilson's Phalarope
307. Purple Gallinule
308. Anhinga
309. (GA) Black-billed Cuckoo
310. Scarlet Tanager
311. Philadelphia Vireo
312. Blue-winged Warbler
313. Cape May Warbler
314. Baltimore Oriole
315. Golden-winged Warbler
316. Louisiana Waterthrush
317. Blackpoll Warbler
318. Acadian Flycatcher
319. Eastern Wood-Pewee
320. Hooded Warbler
321. Apr. 22 (JE) Prairie Warbler
322. Worm-eating Warbler
323. Fish Crow
324. Kentucky Warbler
325. Northern Parula
326. Yellow Warbler
327. Palm Warbler
328. Magnolia Warbler
329. Apr. 23 (GA) Black Tern
330. Common Tern
331. Bobolink
332. (CH) Semipalmated Sandpiper
333. Apr. 24 (HA) Chestnut-sided Warbler
334. Red-headed Woodpecker
335. (AC) Glossy Ibis
336. Buff-breasted Sandpiper
337. (CO) Dickcissel
338. (Milam) Pileated Woodpecker
339. Western Kingbird
340. Apr. 27 (CaC) Cerulean Warbler
341. Blackburnian Warbler
342. Short-billed Dowitcher
343. Veery
344. Bronzed Cowbird
345. Brown-crested Flycatcher
346. Warbling Vireo
347. Apr. 28 (CaC) Cassin's Sparrow
348. Ash-throated Flycatcher
349. Gray-cheeked Thrush
350. Short-tailed Hawk
351. American Avocet
352. Willow Flycatcher
353. Apr. 29 (KeC) Audubon's Oriole
354. Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
355. Hooded Oriole
356. Botteri's Sparrow
357. Lesser Nighthawk
358. Apr. 30 (ST) Red-billed Pigeon
359. (ZC) White-collared Seedeater
360. (Duval) Clay-colored Sparrow
361. May 1 (TC) Bay-breasted Warbler
362. Prothonotary Warbler
363. Merlin
364. Least Flycatcher
365. May 8 (TRC) Bachman's Sparrow
366. Red-cockaded Woodpecker
367. Swainson's Warbler
368. Alder Flycatcher
369. (HoC) Brown-headed Nuthatch
370. May 11 (TC) Black-chinned Hummingbird
371. May 12 (JC) Barn Owl
372. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
373. May 14 (Bosque) Golden-cheeked Warbler
374. (Crockett) Bullock's Oriole
375. (JD) Canyon Wren
376. Zone-tailed Hawk
377. Cassin's Kingbird
378. Black-headed Grosbeak
379. Scott's Oriole
380. May 15 (JD) Bell's Vireo
381. Varied Bunting
382. Colima Warbler
383. Mexican Jay
384. Wilson's Warbler
385. White-throated Swift
386. Violet-Green Swallow
387. Gray Vireo
388. Cordilleran Flycatcher
389. Whip-poor-will
390. May 16 (JD) Dusky-capped Flycatcher
391. Painted Redstart
392. Plumbeous Vireo
393. Hammond's Flycatcher
394. Common Black-Hawk
395. Western Screech-Owl
396. Elf Owl
397. Lucy's Warbler
398. Tropical Kingbird
399. May 21 (CaC) Masked Booby
400. Bridled Tern
401. Magnificent Frigatebird
402. Audubon's Shearwater
403. Tamaulipas Crow
404. May 28 (GA) Greater Flamingo
405. May 29 (FR) Yellow-throated Warbler
406. May 31 (TC) Chuck-will's-widow
407. (HC) Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush
408. June 23 (BC) Band-tailed Pigeon
409. Hutton's Vireo
410. Rufous-crowned Sparrow
411. Blue-throated Hummingbird
412. June 25 (BC) Common Poorwill
413. July 15 (CaC) Yellow-green Vireo
414. Wood Stork
415. American Oystercatcher
416. July 16 (CaC) Cory's Shearwater
417. Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
418. Aug. 12 (BC) Western Tanager
419. Aug. 13 (BC) W. Wood-Pewee
420. Hermit Warbler
421. Grace's Warbler
422. Aug. 14 (BC) Broad-tailed Hummingbird
423. Aug. 20 (JD) Lucifer Hummingbird
424. Magnificent Hummingbird
425. Allen's Hummingbird
426. Broad-billed Hummingbird
427. Aug. 21 (JD) Olive-sided Flycatcher
428. Aug. 22 (JD) Virginia's Warbler
429. Sept. 9 (TC) Mourning Warbler
430. Sept. 24 (CaC) Long-tailed Jaeger
431. Red-billed Tropicbird
432. Sooty Tern
433. Sept. 29 (TC) Amer. Golden-Plover
434. Oct. 20 (TC) Red-breasted Nuthatch
435. Oct. 29 (TC) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
436. Oct. 30 (TC) Pine Siskin
437. Nov. 5 (HC) Crimson-collared Grosbeak
438. Nov. 6 (CaC) Pomarine Jaeger
439. Parasitic Jaeger
440. South Polar Skua
441. Nov. 20 (WC) Purple Finch
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*AC=Austin Co.; BC=Brewster Co.; CaC=Cameron Co.; CH=Chambers Co.; CO=Colorado Co.; CU=Culberson Co.; FR=Freeston Co.;
GA=Galveston Co.; GC=Grayson Co.; HA=Harris; HC=Hidalgo Co.; HoC=Houston Co.; HuC=Hudspeth Co.; JC=Johnson Co.; JD=Jeff Davis
Co.; JE=Jefferson Co.; KeC-Kenedy Co.; NC=Nueces Co.; PC=Parker Co.; PR=Presidio Co.; SA=San Antonio; ST=Starr Co.; TC=Tarrant
Co.; TRC=Trinity Co.; WC=Williamson Co.; ZC=Zapata Co. (not all locations are abbreviated)
**By that I mean that I'm trying to bird more moderately than in 2003, and trying desperately NOT to chase every
good bird; of course, I'm still birding a lot, as I always do.
