Common Name

Number

Pied-billed Grebe

1

Brown Pelican

common

Neotropic Cormorant

fairly common

Great Blue Heron

common

Great Egret

common

Snowy Egret

fairly common

Little Blue Heron

2

white immature and dark adult.

Tricolored Heron

several

Reddish Egret

several

3 age groups: adult, white phase, immature brown birds.

Cattle Egret

common

Green Heron

a few

Black-crowned Night-Heron

9

At night 5 nightherons were fishing on miniature island at end of fishing pier. In morning at 15 minutes before sunrise, one by one these nightherons flew from the pier area to a cluster of oaks to roost for the day. 7 adults and 2 immature birds were counted.

White Ibis

common

Large flock of 80+ over bay, many in marshy areas viewed from boat.

White-faced Ibis

75

37 in perfect V formation flew over Goose Island.

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

several

Mottled Duck

common

Blue-winged Teal

fairly common

Turkey Vulture

common

Osprey

1 at Copano Bay

Swainson's Hawk

1 at Aransas

White-tailed Hawk

2 at Aransas

Red-tailed Hawk

1

American Kestrel

4

Clapper Rail

1

heard in marsh edge on back side of Goose Island

Common Moorhen

a few

American Coot

1

only one. This one is in Rockport bay.

Black-bellied Plover

several

Snowy Plover

2

Killdeer

common

Black-necked Stilt

several

American Avocet

several

Willet

common

Spotted Sandpiper

a few

Long-billed Curlew

fairly common

Marbled Godwit

a few

Ruddy Turnstone

common

Sanderling

several

Western Sandpiper

1

Uncertain whether this was a Semipalmated or Western Sandpiper. Substantial black bill, no curve, little or no droop, thick at base, appeared tubular with some taper, appeared long (therefore Western rather than Semipalmated?), White eyeline, very clear white breast, belly and undertail coverts contrast sharply with dark back.

Least Sandpiper

several

Baird's Sandpiper

8

5 at Rockport Park and 3 at mudflats near Sinton

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

4

at Rockport Park. Photographed.

Short-billed Dowitcher

several

Wilson's Phalarope

1

Laughing Gull

common

Caspian Tern

fairly common

many fewer than Royal Terns, but very obviously different with larger bills brightly colored red orange, forked tails, darker caps.

Royal Tern

common

white foreheads quite apparent, pale bills.

Sandwich Tern

3

photographed from boat.

Forster's Tern

common

Black Skimmer

common

Rock Dove

several

Mourning Dove

common

Inca Dove

fairly common

Great Horned Owl

1

heard at night at campsite.

Common Nighthawk

1

photographed in tree at campsite.

Buff-bellied Hummingbird

2

at Hummingbird Lodge.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

100's

Belted Kingfisher

2

Cordilleran Flycatcher

3

by call and white eyering extending behind eye; at Copano Bay.

Great Crested Flycatcher

1

Eastern Kingbird

fairly common

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

fairly common

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

1

Bank Swallow

1

Brown breast band.

Barn Swallow

common

Carolina Wren

a few

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

1

Northern Mockingbird

a few

Loggerhead Shrike

fairly common

European Starling

fairly common

White-eyed Vireo

fairly common

Red-eyed Vireo

1

Yellow Warbler

a few

Yellow-breasted Chat

1

Knocking or clicking like note.

Northern Cardinal

fairly common

Red-winged Blackbird

a few

Great-tailed Grackle

common

Common Grackle

1

Baltimore Oriole

1

House Sparrow

common