Lynn E. Barber's Birding Site
2007 Birds Seen in Texas (not a big year)
Up to date as of November 30, 2007 (435 species) January 1 - Great Horned Owl (Aransas) Red-tailed Hawk Turkey Vulture Osprey American White Pelican Great-tailed Grackle Double-crested Cormorant (San Patricio) Great Blue Heron Laughing Gull White-eyed Vireo American Robin Ruby-crowned Kinglet Sandhill Crane Yellow-rumped Warbler Red-winged Blackbird Northern Cardinal Northern Mockingbird Orange-crowned Warbler Snow Goose Greater White-fronted Goose Ross’s Goose Starling Brown-headed Cowbird Inca Dove Carolina Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Crested Caracara Long-billed Thrasher Brown Pelican Savanna Sparrow Eurasian Collared-Dove Great Egret Lincoln’s Sparrow American Goldfinch House Wren Loggerhead Shrike Swamp Sparrow House Sparrow Ladder-backed Woodpecker Killdeer Belted Kingfisher Black-bellied Plover American Coot Long-billed Curlew Common Yellowthroat Black-necked Stilt Lesser Yellowlegs Northern Shoveler Reddish Egret Tricolored Heron Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Greater Yellowlegs Willet Sanderling Herring Gull Semipalmated Plover Northern Harrier Ring-billed Gull Eastern Phoebe Wilson’s Snipe (Aransas) Roseate Spoonbill Eastern Meadowlark American Kestrel White-tailed Hawk Gadwall American Wigeon Little Blue Heron Black Vulture Red-shouldered Hawk Mottled Duck (San Patricio) Rock Pigeon Caspian Tern (Nueces) Least Sandpiper American Avocet Snowy Egret Couch’s Kingbird Golden-fronted Woodpecker Cinnamon Teal Vermilion Flycatcher Hermit Thrush Great Kiskadee Green Jay Blue-headed Vireo Mourning Dove White-winged Dove White Ibis Redhead Forster’s Tern American Pipit Black Skimmer Royal Tern Ruddy Turnstone Peregrine Falcon Common Moorhen Ruddy Duck Long-billed Dowitcher Black-crowned Night-Heron Pied-billed Grebe White-faced Ibis Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sharp-shinned Hawk Gray Catbird Common Loon (San Patricio) January 2 – Black-crested Titmouse (Aransas) Purple Gallinule Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Spotted Sandpiper Red-breasted Merganser Eared Grebe Sora Lesser Scaup Fulvous Whistling-Duck Barn Owl (Refugio) Wild Turkey (Aransas) Whooping Crane Snowy Plover Least Grebe Chipping Sparrow Red-headed Woodpecker Eastern Bluebird Pine Warbler Golden-crowned Kinglet White-tailed Kite LeConte’s Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow January 3 – American Oystercatcher (Nueces) Downy Woodpecker Dunlin Marsh Wren Neotropic Cormorant January 4 – Harris’s Hawk (Kenedy) Cattle Egret (Willacy) Green Parakeet (Cameron) White-tipped Dove Olive Sparrow Plain Chachalaca Red-crowned Parrot Townsend’s Warbler (Hidalgo) Anhinga Yellow Warbler Ringed Kingfisher Yellow-throated Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Black Phoebe Cedar Waxing January 5 – Altamira Oriole (Starr) Hooded Oriole Audubon’s Oriole Bewick’s Wren Common Ground-Dove Clay-colored Robin Cooper’s Hawk Bronzed Cowbird Black-throated Sparrow (Zapata) Verdin Lesser Goldfinch Greater Roadrunner January 6 – American Crow (Victoria) Carolina Chickadee (Tarrant) House Finch Blue Jay Rufous Hummingbird January 7 – White-crowned Sparrow (Parker) Barred Owl Red-bellied Woodpecker Brown Creeper Costa’s Hummingbird Mallard Snow Bunting January 8 – Dark-eyed Junco (Tarrant) January 12 –Smith’s Longspur (Rains) Sprague’s Pipit Horned Grebe Bonaparte’s Gull Field Sparrow Harris’s Sparrow Song Sparrow Pacific Loon Rock Wren (Hunt) Vesper Sparrow Tufted Titmouse Northern Flicker Rusty Blackbird January 15 - White-throated Sparrow (Tarrant) Western Meadowlark Fox Sparrow January 16 - Brewer's Blackbird (Denton) Hooded Merganser (Grayson) White-winged Scoter January 18 - Little Gull (Dallas) Merlin January 19 - Monk Parakeet (Tarrant) January 20 - Mountain Plover (Williamson) January 23 - Bald eagle (Tarrant) January 25 - Canada Goose (Archer) Cackling Goose Ferruginous Hawk (Collingsworth) Horned Lark (Hemphill) Lapland Longspur Common Merganser Prairie Falcon Mountain Bluebird (Hansford) McCown's Longspur (Hutchinson) Chestnut-collared Longspur Rough-legged Hawk Ring-necked Pheasant Wood Duck (Hartley) January 26 Chihuahuan Raven (Dallam) Scaled Quail Golden Eagle (Hartley) Curve-billed Thrasher (Culberson) Cactus Wren January 27 Lark Bunting (Hudspeth) Brewer's Sparrow Green-tailed Towhee Pyrrhuloxia Crissal Thrasher Say's Phoebe White-throated Swift (Culberson) January 30 Western Grebe (Archer) Red-necked Grebe Greater Scaup (Tarrant) February 1 Eastern Screech-Owl (Tarrant) February 3 Common Redpoll (Wise) Common Grackle (Tarrant) February 6 Lark Sparrow (Grayson) February 9 Northern Gannet (Nueces) Brown Thrasher February 10 Winter Wren (Victoria) Pileated Woodpecker February 17 American Woodcock (Tarrant) Spotted Towhee February 22 Cave Swallow (Tom Green) Canyon Towhee (Jeff Davis) Western Bluebird White-breasted Nuthatch Western Scrub-Jay Bushtit Acorn Woodpecker February 23 Rough-winged Swallow (Brewster) Phainopepla Hutton's Vireo February 24 Mexican Jay (Brewster) Common Raven Canyon Wren February 25 Black-tailed Gnatcatcher (Presidio) Gambel's Quail Ash-throated Flycatcher February 28 Purple Martin (Tarrant) March 9 Northern Bobwhite (Tarrant) Pine Siskin (Parker) March 10 Barn Swallow (Johnson) March 12 Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet (Hidalgo) March 13 Green Kingfisher (Starr) Brown Jay Red-billed Pigeon Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Cliff Swallow (Hidalgo) Tree Swallow Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (Kleberg) March 17 Franklin's Gull (Tarrant) March 23 Golden-cheeked Warbler (Burnet) March 29 Clapper Rail (Jefferson) Eastern Towhee Boat-tailed Grackle Ruby-throated Hummingbird Green Heron Hooded Warbler Eastern Kingbird Seaside Sparrow Palm Warbler Orchard Oriole April 2 Chimney Swift (Tarrant) April 3 Nashville Warbler (Tarrant) April 4 Swainson's Hawk (Tarrant) April 12 Summer Tanager (Frio) Brown-crested Flycatcher Painted Bunting Cassin's Sparrow Upland Sandpiper Western Kingbird Bullock's Oriole American Golden-Plover April 14 Black-capped Vireo (Bexar) April 15 Chuck-wills-widow Black-chinned Hummingbird April 16 Bachman's Sparrow (Angelina) Brown-headed Nuthatch Red-cockaded Woodpecker Blue Grosbeak (Jasper) Swainson's Warbler Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Prairie Warbler Northern Parula (Angelina) Acadian Flycatcher (Jasper) Broad-winged Hawk Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-throated Vireo Great Crested Flycatcher Prothonotary Warbler Pectoral Sandpiper (Hardin) Fish Crow (Jefferson) Solitary Sandpiper April 17 Indigo Bunting (Jasper) Baird's Sandpiper (Jefferson) Western Sandpiper Baltimore Oriole (Chambers) Yellow Rail Glossy Ibis Least Bittern Wood Thrush (Galveston) Tennessee Warbler Kentucky Warbler Sandwich Tern Black Tern Marbled Godwit Whimbrel Least Tern Piping Plover Wilson's Plover Common Tern Short-billed Dowitcher April 18 Sedge Wren (Galveston) Gull-billed Tern Bank Swallow Yellow-breasted Chat Northern Waterthrush Black-throated Green Warbler Rose-breasted Grosbeak Scarlet Tanager Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow (Brazoria) Western Tanager Yellow-headed Blackbird Black-headed Grosbeak Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Dickcissel (Wharton) Buff-breasted Sandpiper American Bittern (Colorado) April 19 Common Pauraque (Live Oak) Lesser Nighthawk Whip-poor-will Common Poorwill Clay-colored Sparrow Bell's Vireo Semipalmated Sandpiper (San Patricio) Swallow-tailed Kite (Aransas) Gray-cheeked Thrush Wilson's Phalarope (Nueces) Stilt Sandpiper Philadelphia Vireo Common Nighthawk (Kleberg) Masked Duck April 20 Muscovy Duck (Starr) White-collared Seedeater (Zapata) Varied Bunting Tropical Kingbird (Cameron) Buff-bellied Hummingbird Louisiana Waterthrush Tamaulipas Crow Botteri's Sparrow Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl (Hidalgo) Elf Owl April 21 Willow Flycatcher (Hidalgo) Blackpoll Warbler Gray Hawk Mississippi Kite White-rumped Sandpiper (Cameron) Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Nueces) Hermit Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Alder Flycatcher Swainson's Thrush Magnolia Warbler American Redstart April 22 Cerulean Warbler (Nueces) April 24 Blue-winged Warbler (Jefferson) Veery Bay-breasted Warbler Worm-eating Warbler April 25 Hudsonian Godwit (Chambers) Ovenbird (Galveston) Golden-winged Warbler (Jefferson) Bobolink Cape May Warbler April 26 Black-billed Cuckoo (Jefferson) May 19 Least Flycatcher (Tarrant) Canada Warbler Olive-sided Flycatcher Mourning Warbler June 13 Burrowing Owl (Pecos) Common Black-Hawk (Brewster) Rufous-crowned Sparrow Scott's Oriole June 14 Band-tailed Pigeon (Brewster) Dusky-capped Flycatcher Violet-green Swallow Broad-tailed Hummingbird Colima Warber Zone-tailed Hawk Blue-throated Hummingbird Cordilleran Flycatcher Painted Redstart June 15 Lucy's Warbler (Brewster) Cassin's Kingbird Western Wood-Pewee(Jeff Davis) Hepatic Tanager Plumbeous Vireo June 16 Black-chinned Sparrow (Culberson) Black-throated Gray Warbler Mountain Chickadee August 2 Gray Vireo (Culberson) August 3 Grace's Warbler (Culberson) Clark's Grebe (Hudspeth) August 4 Montezuma Quail (Jeff Davis) August 11 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (Tarrant) August 14 Magnificent Frigatebird (Nueces) Red Knot August 15 Masked Booby (Nueces) August 17 Wood Stork (Brazoria) August 30 Wilson's Warbler (Brewster) FAN-TAILED WARBLER October 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch (Tarrant) October 30 Short-eared Owl (Tarrant) November 8 Brant (Andrews) November 10 Hairy Woodpecker (Hunt) November 11 Surf Scoter (Tarrant) November 19 Long-tailed Duck (Tarrant) November 28 Red Crossbill (Wilbarger)
