Sea Rim

Winter 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 Common Loon Red-throated Loon *Pied-billed Grebe Earned Grebe American White Pelican Brown Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Neotropic Cormorant Anhinga American Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret *Green-backed Heron *Black-crowned Night-Heron *Yellow-crowned NightHeron White Ibis White-faced Ibis Roseate Spoonbill Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Canada Goose PWD 0089B-P4504 (06/14) No. Sited Green-winged Teal Date u r c c a r c o o c c c c u c o r c u Species American Black Duck *Mottled Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Oldsquaw Black Scoter Surf Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Black Vulture Turkey Vulture o o u c a o 1 a Frequency Sited r c o c c o c c c c o u r a r r r r r r r u u u o No. Sited Bald Eagle Date Frequency Sited Northern Harrier Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Crested Caracara American Kestrel Northern Bobwhite Yellow Rail Black Rail *Clapper Rail *King Rail Sora *Common Moorhen American Coot Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover Snowy Plover Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover *Killdeer American Oystercatcher *Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs *Willet Spotted Sandpiper Whimbrel Long-billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper PWD 0089B-P4504 Date r Species (06/14) No. Sited Species Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Common Snipe Laughing Gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Royal Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Black Skimmer *Morning Dove Groove-billed Ani Barn Owl Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Short-eared Owl Belted Kingfisher Northern Flicker Northern Flicker Eastern Wood Pewee Eastern Phoebe Horned Lark Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Carolina Wren Winter Wren Sedge Wren Marsh Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet c o c r r c u r r c o c u a r c c u c c r r o o o c u r c u o o o c o u u 2 Frequency Sited c u u o c o u c c u u c r c r u r u r u u u u u u u c o u r r r r a u r o No. Sited Date Species Frequency Sited Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Hermit Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher American Pipit Sprague's Pipit *Loggerhead Shrike *European Starling White-eyed Vireo Solitary Vireo Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Black-headed Grosbeak Rufous-sided Towhee Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Savannah Sparrow PWD 0089B-P4504 (06/14) No. Sited Date u o o o u u o r c c r o o c r r r r r Species Grasshopper Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow Le Conte's Sparrow *Sharp-tailed Sparrow *Seaside Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Harris' Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Red-winged Blackbird *Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Great-tailed Grackle *Boat-tailed Grackle Common Grackle *Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Northern Oriole Purple Finch American Goldfinch *House Sparrow c r r u r r r a 3 Frequency Sited r r u c a r o u c u u r o a a r o c a c c c u r o c No. Sited