Welcome the the gallery of Southern Texas Birds! To read about some of the birds of Southern Texas and ideas of where to go head to Birding Southern Texas

Sora (Porzana carolina)- Estro State Park

Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja )

Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors)

Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus)

A pair of Crested Caracara (Caracara cheriway) at Atascosa NWR

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus forficatus ) – South Padre Island

Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)

Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres )

Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus)

Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea )

Yellow-crowned Night-heron (Nyctanassa violacea )

Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens)

Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) – Corpus Christi, Texas

Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor )

Hooded Oriole (Icterus cucullatus)

Black Phoebe (Sayornis nigricans )- Bentson State Park, Texas

Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens)

Eastern Screech Owl (Megascops asio)

Black-bellied Whistling-ducks (Dendrocygna autumnalis) – South Padre Island

Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)

Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata)

Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) among Laughing Gulls- Corpus Christi, Texas

Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor)

Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus )-Falcon State Park

Green Heron (Butorides virescens)

Great Egret (Ardea alba)

Louisisana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla)- South Padre Island

Pyrrhuloxia (Cardinalis sinuatus) – Falcon State Park

Green Jay (Cyanocorax yncas)

Ladder-backed Woodpecker (Picoides scalaris)

Olive Sparrow (Arremonops rufivirgatus)

Long-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma longirostre )

Black-necked Stilts (Himantopus mexicanus)

Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus )

Harris’s Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus) – Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge

Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis )- Los Aranos, TX

Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja ) and Redheads (Aythya americana )

Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor)

White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica)

Black-crested Titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus)

Mottled Duck (Anas fulvigula)

Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata)

White Ibis (Eudocimus albus)

Pauraque (Nyctidromus albicollis )- can you see it??

The Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus ) – Falcon State Park

Altamira Oriole (Icterus gularis) – Salineno, Texas

White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica)

The true joy of bathing for a house sparrow (Passer domesticus ) in Texas!

White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos )

Sora (Porzana carolina)

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus forficatus)

Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens)

Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)

Golden-fronted Woodpecker (Melanerpes aurifrons)

Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus) – Padre Island National Seashore

Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca )

Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)

Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus)

On a cloudy day this northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) took up singing on top of this yucca

Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) at the water foundtain

Willet (Tringa semipalmata )

Wilson’s Plover – Padre Island National Seashore

Clay-colored Thrush (Turdus grayi)

Northern Pintail (Anas acuta )

Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata)

Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia)

White Ibis (Eudocimus albus) – Estero State Park

Unknown Sandpiper

Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres ) and Sanderling (Sanderling) – Padre Island National Seashore

Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) – Corpus Christi, Texas

Great Egret (Ardea alba)

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus forficatus)

Green Jay (Cyanocorax yncas)

Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla ), Laguna Madre, TX