Index of Interesting/Unusual/Rare birds
Last Updated: April 05 , 2008 .
A male American Wigeon with a striking
head pattern - added Feb 23, 2004.
An American Black Duck from Fort Worth, Texas - added Jan, 2000.
A female Common Pochard from Fort Worth in November 2003 - sadly too far away for definitive pics - added Nov 23, 2003.
A female-type Harlequin Duck near Fort Worth, Texas - added Dec, 2001.
A Masked Duck - plus nearby goodies all from the Corpus Christi area - added Dec 23, 2004.
A pair of Masked Ducks from south of Kingsville - added May 13, 2007 .
A bit of fun with some Least Grebes... - added July 31, 2006.
an immature Brown Booby from Port Aransas - added February 27, 2005.
A Great Blue Heron swimming with cormorants near Fort Worth - re-added Dec 11, 2005.
A group of Snowy Egrets fishing on-the-fly in San Antonio - re-added Dec 11, 2005.
An Ashy Cattle Egret from Houston - added June 11, 2007 .
A bit of fun with two Northern Harriers near Fot Worth... - re-added Dec 11, 2005.
An unexpected immature N. Goshawk from
south Texas in April - added April 26,
2005.
An immature Roadside Hawk from south
Texas - added Feb 06, 2005.
A pesky yet impressive Peregrine:
you go girl! - added Feb 07, 2005
.
Added pics of the Abilene,
TX Snowy Owl to those of the Lubbock, TX Gyrfalcon
- Updated March 23, 2002.
Five Whooping Cranes near Fort Worth;
now with sound!
- updated
Nov 02, 2003.
Portraits of some Mountain Plovers
from near Pearsall, Texas - added March
06 2005 .
A Semipalmated Sandpiper wintering in Texas (it has a deformity) - updated Dec 20, 2005.
A juvenile Sharp-tailed
Sandpiper from the Texas Panhandle - added Nov
17, 2004.
The first South Polar Skua for the Gulf
of Mexico, apparently - added Nov 13, 2004.
A Little Gull in full juvenile plumage, from Texas in November - - re-added Dec 11, 2005.
Five species of Tern in thirteen
days at Lake Benbrook, near Fort Worth - including Sooty Tern -
added Sept 23, 2002.
A Brown Noddy from inshore south
Texas waters - added June 26, 2005.
Record pics of a Mountain Pygmy-Owl from Big Bend - added Sept 03, 2007.
A
Northern Pygmy-Owl from Washington State - added February 28, 2008 .
A male Broad-billed Hummingbird from
Houston, Texas - added Nov 13 2004.
A female Magnificent Hummingbird from
near San Antonio, Texas - added Oct 24 2004.
A male Green-breasted Mango from South
Texas - added
Aug 24 2004.
A male Buff-bellied Hummingbird from
South Texas - added May 05 2004.
A "southern" Red-breasted
Sapsucker from West Texas - added
March 11, 2005.
A mixed pair of Red- and Yellow-shafted Northern Flickers interacting - re-added Dec 11, 2005.
A male Elegant Trogon and Blue Bunting from south Texas on January 14-16 2005 - added January 16, 2005.
A Buff-breasted Flycatcher from the Davis
Mtns, Texas - added May 31, 2005.
The first documented record for
North America of Social Flycatcher, from south Texas -
added Jan 09, 2005.
Poor pics of a Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher from the upper Texas Coast - added April 22, 2006 .
A leucistic Loggerhead Shrike from San Antonio - added December, 20 2005.
Two Black-capped Vireos from the Hill Country
- added May 16, 2005.
A Hutton's Vireo from San Antonio - added April 05, 2008 .
Two Tamaulipas
Crows from Brownsville, LRGV - added May 16, 2005.
Two imm. Violet-green Swallows
from Fort Worth - added Sept 13, 2003.
A selection from a huge Swallow
drop-in near Fort Worth - added October
03, 2003 .
A Golden-crowned Kinglet flashing his crest from Washington State
- added February 28, 2008 .
A gorgeous male Varied Thrush from San
Antonio - added
November 08, 2004.
A delightful Painted Redstart in Corpus
Christi, Texas - added April 13, 2004.
Another lovely Painted Redstart from Arizona - added September 03, 2007 .
A series of pages of various warblers from a terrific Fallout
at South Padre Island - added May 05 2004:
- male Bay-breasted
Warbler.
- male and female Golden-winged
Warblers.
- male Tennessee,
Cerulean and Blackburnian Warblers.
- male Magnolia,
Chestnut-sided, and Black-throated Green Warblers.
- male Northern
Parula, American Redstart.
- female Cape
May Warbler, Philadelphia Vireo, plus "combos".
A nice, clean-looking male Tropical Parula from San Antonio - added Jan 04, 2006.
A rare Hermit Warbler from the
Central Texas Coast - added May 01, 2005.
An even rarer Red-faced
Warbler from the same Central Texas Coast spot as the above
Hermit Warbler; at bottom of page - added
May 08, 2005.
A lovely male Golden-cheeked
Warbler from the Hill Country - added May 16, 2005.
An obliging Swainson's Warbler from Corpus Christi - added April 25, 2007.
A lovely Rufous-capped Warbler
from south of San Antonio - updated November 30, 2004.
The long-staying Gray-crowned
Yellowthroat from Sabal Palm, LRGV; is it a pure bird??? - added May 16, 2005.
An Olive Warbler from the Davis
Mtns, Texas - added May 31, 2005.
A nicely-posed adult Golden-crowned Sparrow from west-central Texas - added December 25, 2007 .
Flight shots of the Lewisville, Texas Snow Bunting. - added January 01, 2007 .
Pics of the male and female Crimson-collared
Grosbeaks from the LRGV - updated
January 16, 2005.
A wintering Scott's Oriole from
Tarrant County, TX - updated March 15, 2003
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