Sea Rim

Fall Checklist of Birds at Sea Rim State Park, Texas Compiled by William J. Graber, M.D., 1992 Frequency Sited Code: a: abundant; should see; a common species which is very numerous c: common: should see, certain to be seen in suitable habitat u: uncommon: may see, present but not certain to be seen o-occassional: may see, seen only a few times during the season r-rare: not to be expected, seen at intervals of 2 to 5 per year *-nests in park Date Species Frequency Sited *Pied-billed Grebe Earned Grebe American White Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Neotropic Cormorant Anhinga Magnificent Frigatebird American Bittern *Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Reddish Egret Cattle Egret *Green-backed Heron *Black-crowned NightHeron *Yellow-crowned NightHeron White Ibis White-faced Ibis PWD 0089A-P4504 (06/14) No. Sited Date c c c c u u o c c c c c u c u a u c Species Roseate Spoonbill Fulvous Whistling-Duck Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Canada Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Teal American Black Duck *Mottled Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Common Goldeneye Bufflehead u o o 1 Frequency Sited o r c c o r a r c o c c c c c c o u r c r r No. Sited Date Species Frequency Sited Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey Mississippi Kite Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Swainson's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Northern Bobwhite Yellow Rail Black Rail *Clapper Rail *King Rail Virginia Rail Sora *Purple Gallinule *Common Moorhen American Coot Black-bellied Plover Lesser Golden-Plover Snowy Plover Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover PWD 0089A-P4504 (06/14) No. Sited Date r u c u o r o u o o o c u c r c r r u r r c o c c u c a c r u u u Species *Killdeer American Oystercatcher *Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper *Willet Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Long-billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Common Snipe Wilson's Phalarope Laughing Gull Franklin's Gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Royal Tern 2 Frequency Sited c r c c c c u c c o c o o o a c c u c c o u c c c c o u c u o u c No. Sited Date Species Frequency Sited Common Tern Forster's Tern Black Tern Black Skimmer Rock Dove White-winged Dove *Morning Dove Common Ground-Dove Groove-billed Ani Barn Owl Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Short-eared Owl Chuck-will's-widow Whip-poor-will Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Olive-sided Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Western Kingbird *Eastern Kingbird *Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Horned Lark Tree Swallow PWD 0089A-P4504 (06/14) No. Sited Date o c c r r r u r r u r u u u o u r u Species Swallow Bank Swallow *Cliff Swallow *Cave Swallow Barn Swallow Blue Jay Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Sedge Wren Marsh Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher American Pipit Sprague's Pipit *Loggerhead Shrike *European Starling White-eyed Vireo Solitary Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler c u u u u r r c u o c o o a 3 Frequency Sited a u u u a u o u r a u o u u o u u o u o u u c o r c c u o u u o u No. Sited Date Species Frequency Sited Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler PWD 0089A-P4504 (06/14) No. Sited u c c o u u r u u 4