Trip Reports

Texas Coast - 21st November - 1st December 2001, author Surfbirds Admin (added September 9, 2004)

Texas - 4th - 19th April 2002, author Surfbirds Admin (added September 9, 2004)

Texas, 8th - 22nd April 2002, author Surfbirds Admin (added September 9, 2004)

Texas 14th Dec 2000 - 4th Jan 2001, author Surfbirds Admin (added September 9, 2004)

Texas, Tennessee (and bits in between), 4th April - 16th May 2002, author Surfbirds Admin (added September 9, 2004)

South Texas, February 2001, author Surfbirds Admin (added September 9, 2004)

Trans-Texas (Rio Grande Valley, South Padre Island Pelagic, Edwards Plateau, Davis Mountains, Big Bend National Park) - June 1st - 11th 2002, author Surfbirds Admin (added September 9, 2004)

Texas - March 25th - April 1st 2000, author Surfbirds Admin (added September 9, 2004)

Texas - Lower Rio Grande Valley Feb 2003 (wintering rarities), author Surfbirds Admin (added September 9, 2004)

South Texas - Feb 11th - March 7th 2000, author Surfbirds Admin (added September 9, 2004)

Houston Area and the Trans Pecos, 12th - 26th April 2003, author Alan Whitehead (added September 9, 2004)

Texas, 31st March - 9th April 2001, author Surfbirds Admin (added September 9, 2004)

Texas, 9th - 25th April 2004, author Surfbirds Admin (added September 9, 2004)

Texas, 8th - 28th April 2001, author Surfbirds Admin (added September 9, 2004)

Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park, May 9th - 15th 2004, author Surfbirds Admin (added September 9, 2004)

Texas, High Island and Upper Gulf Coast, August 31st - September 1st 2003, author Surfbirds Admin (added September 9, 2004)

Texas, Upper coast, High Island Fallout - April 8th - 24th 2001, author Surfbirds Admin (added September 9, 2004)

USA - West Texas Summer... before Fan-tailed Warbler - June 23rd - August 24th, 2007, author Forrest Rowland (added September 3, 2007)
(Painted Redstart, Tropical Kingbird, Gray Hawk, Zone-tailed Hawk, Montezuma Quail, Reptiles, Mammals)

USA Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas Nov 07: Illustrated Report of 5 day trip, author Stephen Burch (link created November 28, 2007)
(Audubon's Oriole, Altamira Oriole, Hooded Oriole, Clay Colored Robin)

Rio Grande Valley, Texas on a College Student’s Budget: March 12-19, 2011, author Alex Harper (added March 24, 2011)
(Bentsen-Rio Grande State Park, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Falcon Dam State Park)

Texas - April 2004, author Steve Bird (added March 24, 2007)
(with images of Golden-cheeked Warbler, Whooping Crane, Green Jay and Green Heron)

USA - Whooping Cranes - Aransas and San Bernard NWR - March 2009, author Jeffrey Mohamed (added March 16, 2009)
(Fulton, Rockport, Aransas, San Bernard, Whooping Crane, Bald Eagle, American Bittern)

US Texas, Big Bend National Park - March 11th- 12th 2005, author buckskinhawk (added March 16, 2005)
(Big Bend, National Park, Texas, Southwest US, Golden-fronted Woodpecker,)

Texas - 21st - 29th April 2005, author Martin Pitt (added June 1, 2005)

Three Canucks and a Yankee do the Lower Rio Grande Valley - 19-25 June 2005, author Sandy Ayer (added July 21, 2005)
(Our team visited a number of sites over a five-day period and managed to see all but a handful of our target species outside the high season)

Prairie Boy does Austin, Texas - 15th June 2005, author Sandy Ayer (added July 21, 2005)
(of interest to those who'd like to see Golden-cheeked Warbler and Black-capped Vireo)

Lake Waco Wetlands, Texas - 4th April 2007, author David Rosenbaum (added July 20, 2007)
(Lake Waco, wetlands, whistling-duck, gnatcatcher, phoebe)

ABA Area Big Day Record Broken - Texas 2008, author Ken Behrens (link created July 19, 2008)
(In the late hours of April 19th, 2008, a team consisting of Cameron Cox, Pete Hosner, Michael Retter, and myself stood in darkness at the Port Aransas Birding Center on the Texas coast)

Texas - December 26th 2010 - January 1st 2011, author Noah Gaines (added January 5, 2011)
(Whooping Crane, Crimson-collared Grosbeak, Hook-billed Kite)

Texas – Gulf Coast and Rio Grande Valley April 21st – May 5th 2007, author Phil Ramsgate (added December 19, 2007)
(The following tale of woe tells the story of our two week US stay as we travelled between the Gulf coast at High Island, down to the Rio Grande then up onto the Edwards Plateau and back to the coast.)

Big Bend Texas, July 2004, author Andrew Birch (link created December 14, 2005)
(Colima Warbler, Zone-tailed Hawk, Varied Bunting, Bell's Vireo, Black Hawk)

Texas - Birding and Diamondbacks, author Clayton Burne (link created December 11, 2010)
(High Island, Anahuac, Edwards Plateau, Rio Grande, Cerulean Warbler, Canada Warbler, Cape May Warbler, Painted Bunting, Yellow Rail, Franklin's Gull, Western Scrub Jay, Greater Roadrunner, Pyrrhuloxia, Scott's Oriole, Altamira Oriole, Clay-coloured Robin)

Texas Trip Report March 20th - April 2nd 2005, author Alan Whitehead (added April 28, 2005)

USA April 2011 Upper Texas Coast, author Pritam Baruah (link created April 16, 2012)
(Upper Texas Coast, Pineywoods, Big Thicket, spring migration, warblers)

Recent Sightings

New Braunfels, Rough Legged Hawk Light Morph, very light, mostly author kay stahl-schwarzlose (added February 24, 2012)

sabine river, more swallowed tail kites circleing right over author brandon cruthirds (added May 8, 2008)

burkeville,texas, the swallowed tail kite has returned this author brandon cruthirds (added April 27, 2008)

Paradise Pond, Port Aransas, TX, Female Hermit author S Roper (added April 22, 2007)

Near Plains, Lesser prairie author James Knowlton (added April 13, 2007)