Thursday, February 5, 2026

Lifer Birds in TX

 This is just a wrap up of the lifer bird species that I saw in Texas. Many of these photos have been in other blog posts but I wanted to put a post together of the order in which I saw them as the vacation went along. The first was the Great-Tailed Grackle and the last, the Green Parakeets. They are mostly in order. I saw ten species at Bentson, so they are all together, but it happened so fast I couldn't tell you if I saw an Altamira Oriole first or the Clay Colored Thrush. 

Final stats

Lifers  34 that count on ebird

           2 non-countable birds the Yellow Headed Amazon and the White Fronted Amazon

Lifers with photos 30 (four without photos Gray Hawk, Ringed Kingfisher, Aplomado Falcon, White Tailed Kite) 

   I also saw a McCall's Screech Owl which for now is a subspecies of an Eastern Screech but there is talk that it will be split into a separate species.


Great Tailed Grackle


Whooping Crane


Neotropical Cormorant


Harris Hawk



Plain Chachalaca


Great Kikadee


Green Jay



Green Kingfisher


Ladder Backed Woodpecker


Golden Fronted Woodpecker


Common Paquaque



Long Billed Thrasher



Altamira Oriole


Clay Colored Thrush


Black Crested Titmouse



Inca Dove





Audubon's Oriole



Hooded Oriole


Black Chinned Hummingbird


Olive Sparrow


Greater Roadrunner


Black Phoebe


Vermillion Flycatcher


Vermillion Flycatcher


                                                        Aplomado Falcon


Verdin

                                                      White Tailed Kite


                                         

Red Crowned Amazon


White Fronted Amazon



Yellow Headed Amazon


Curve Billed Thrasher


Crimson Collared Grosbeak



                                                     Ringed Kingfisher


                                                    Gray Hawk


                           

Buff Bellied Hummingbird (and below)




Green Parakeet


White Tipped Dove (should be further up
the list, but Blogger keeps screwing it up)



Better photo of Inca Dove


McCall's Screech Owl. Heavily cropped
He is at the bottom of the hole



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