Bird Checklist

BRAZOS BEND SP BIRD CHECKLIST This checklist is a list of common and specialty birds seen in the park. Staf and volunteers have used previous checklists as well as eBird data to compile these lists. This list should not be used as a comprehensive list of birds seen in this park. Please help us protect the natural avian communities by refraining from using playback tapes of bird songs. Thank you for your cooperation. Waterfowl ___ Black-bellied Whistling-Duck ___ Snow Goose ___ Greater White-fronted Goose ___ Wood Duck ___ Blue-winged Teal ___ Northern Shoveler ___ Gadwall ___ American Wigeon ___ Mallard ___ Northern Pintail ___ Green-winged Teal ___ Ring-necked Duck ___ Ruddy Duck Grouse, Quail, and Allies ___ Northern Bobwhite Pigeons and Doves ___ Inca Dove ___ White-winged Dove ___ Mourning Dove Cuckoos ___ Yellow-billed Cuckoo Nightjars ___ Common Nighthawk Hummingbirds ___ Ruby-throated Hummingbird Rails, Gallinules, and Allies ___ Sora ___ Common Gallinule ___ American Coot ___ Purple Gallinule Limpkin ___ Limpkin Cranes ___ Sandhill Crane Shorebirds ___ Black-necked Stilt ___ Killdeer ___ Wilson’s Snipe Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers ___ Caspian Tern Grebes ___ Pied-billed Grebe Storks ___ Wood Stork Cormorants and Anhingas ___ Anhinga ___ Neotropic Cormorant ___ Double-crested Cormorant Herons, Ibis, and Allies ___ American Bittern ___ Least Bittern ___ Great Blue Heron ___ Great Egret ___ Snowy Egret ___ Little Blue Heron ___ Tricolored Heron ___ Cattle Egret ___ Green Heron ___ Black-crowned Night-Heron ___ Yellow-crowned Night-Heron ___ White Ibis ___ White-faced Ibis ___ Roseate Spoonbill Pelicans ___ American White Pelican Vultures, Hawks, and Allies ___ Black Vulture ___ Turkey Vulture ___ Osprey ___ Mississippi Kite ___ Northern Harrier ___ Cooper’s Hawk ___ Bald Eagle ___ White-tailed Hawk ___ Red-shouldered Hawk ___ Red-tailed Hawk Owls ___ Barn Owl ___ Great Horned Owl ___ Barred Owl Kingfshers ___ Belted Kingfsher Woodpeckers ___ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ___ Red-bellied Woodpecker ___ Downy Woodpecker ___ Pileated Woodpecker Falcons and Caracaras ___ Crested Caracara ___ American Kestrel Tyrant Flycatchers: Pewees, Kingbirds, and Allies ___ Acadian Flycatcher ___ Eastern Phoebe ___ Vermilion Flycatcher ___ Great Crested Flycatcher ___ Eastern Kingbird ___ Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Vireos ___ White-eyed Vireo ___ Yellow-throated Vireo ___ Blue-headed Vireo ___ Red-eyed Vireo Shrikes ___ Loggerhead Shrike Jays, Magpies, Crows, and Ravens ___ Blue Jay ___ American Crow Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice ___ Carolina Chickadee ___ Tufed Titmouse Martins and Swallows ___ Northern Rough-winged Swallow ___ Purple Martin ___ Tree Swallow ___ Barn Swallow Kinglets ___ Ruby-crowned Kinglet Gnatcatchers ___ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Wrens ___ House Wren ___ Sedge Wren ___ Marsh Wren ___ Carolina Wren Starlings and Mynas ___ European Starling Catbirds, Mockingbirds, and Thrashers ___ Gray Catbird ___ Brown Thrasher ___ Northern Mockingbird Thrushes ___ Eastern Bluebird ___ Hermit Thrush ___ American Robin ___ Wood Thrush Waxwings ___ Cedar Waxwing Old World Sparrows ___ House Sparrow Wagtails and Pipits ___ American Pipit Finches, Euphonias, and Allies ___ American Goldfnch New World Sparrows ___ Chipping Sparrow ___ Field Sparrow ___ White-throated Sparrow ___ LeConte’s Sparrow ___ Savannah Sparrow ___ Henslow’s Sparrow ___ Song Sparrow ___ Lincoln’s Sparrow ___ Swamp Sparrow Blackbirds ___ Eastern Meadowlark ___ Baltimore Oriole ___ Red-winged Blackbird ___ Brown-headed Cowbird ___ Common Grackle ___ Boat-tailed Grackle ___ Great-tailed Grackle Wood-Warblers ___ Ovenbird ___ Louisiana Waterthrush ___ Northern Waterthrush ___ Black-and-white Warbler ___ Prothonotary Warbler ___ Tennessee Warbler ___ Orange-crowned Warbler ___ Nashville Warbler ___ Common Yellowthroat ___ Hooded Warbler ___ American Redstart ___ Northern Parula ___ Magnolia Warbler ___ Yellow Warbler ___ Palm Warbler ___ Pine Warbler ___ Yellow-rumped Warbler ___ Yellow-throated Warbler ___ Black-throated Green Warbler ___ Wilson’s Warbler ___ Chestnut-sided Warbler ___ Worm-eating Warbler ___ Kentucky Warbler Cardinals, Grosbeaks, and Allies ___ Summer Tanager ___ Northern Cardinal ___ Indigo Bunting ___ Painted Bunting ___ Dickcissel © 2025 TPWD PWD CD P4504-0110AA (4/25) TPWD receives funds from DHS and USFWS. 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