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When you visit Matagorda County, you'll never run out of things to do... that is, unless you want to. you'll find miles of world-class beaches, amazing nature and wildlife, museums, historic sites, unique shopping and great dining. Wherever you go, you're sure to encounter nature at its best and Texas hospitality at its warmest.


Bird Species

ACCIDENTALS - pacific loon, least grebe, western grebe, brown booby, tundra swan, common merganser, rough-legged hawk, golden eagle, prairie falcon, attwater's prairie chicken, ruff, pomarine jaeger, California gull, glaucous gull, sooty tern, lesser nighthawk, green violet-ear, blue-throated hummingbird, Allen's hummingbird, ringed kingfisher, green kingfisher, great kiskadee, sulphur-bellied flycatcher, yellow-bellied flycatcher, yellow-green vireo, Chihuahuan raven, white-breasted nuthatch, black-throated blue warbler, black-throated gray warbler, lazuli bunting, varied bunting, black-throated sparrow, Henslow's sparrow, Harris' sparrow, chestnut-collared longspur, rusty blackbird, shiny cowbird, altamira oriole, lesser goldfinch

AHNINGA & FRIGATEBIRD - anhinga, magnificent frigatebird

BITTERNS, HERONS & EGRETS - American bittern, least bittern, great blue heron, great egret, snowy egret, little blue heron, tricolored heron, reddish egret, cattle egret, green heron, black-crowned night-heron, yellow-crowned night-heron

BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES & ALLIES - bobolink, red-winged blackbird, eastern meadowlark, western meadowlark, yellow-headed blackbird, brewer's blackbird, great-tailed grackle, boat-tailed grackle, common grackle, bronzed cowbird, brown-headed cowbird, orchard oriole, bullock's oriole, Baltimore oriole

BOOBIES & GANNETS - masked booby, northern gannet

CARACARA & FALCONS - crested caracara, American kestrel, merlin, peregrine falcon

CHICKADEE, TITMOUSE & CREEPER - Carolina chickadee, tufted titmouse, red-breasted nuthatch, brown creeper

CRANES - sandhill crane, whooping crane

DOVES, CUCKOOS, ROADRUNNERS & ANI - rock dove, Eurasian collared dove, white-winged dove, mourning dove, Inca dove, common ground-dove, black-billed cuckoo, yellow-gilled cuckoo, greater roadrunner, grooved- billed ani

DUCKS & GEESE - fulvous whistling-duck, black-bellied whistling-duck, greater white-fronted goose, snow goose, Ross' goose, Canada goose, wood duck, green-winged teal 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, white-winged scoter, common goldeneye, bufflehead, hooded merganser, red-breasted merganser, ruddy duck

FINCHES, SISKIN & WEAVER FINCH - purple finch, house finch, pine sisken, American goldfinch, house sparrow

FLYCATCHERS - olive-sided flycatcher, eastern wood pewee, yellow-bellied flycatcher, Acadian flycatcher, alder flycatcher, willow flycatcher, least flycatcher, eastern phoebe, say's phoebe, vermilion flycatcher, ash-throated flycatcher, great crested flycatcher, brown-crested flycatcher, couch's kingbird, western kingbird, eastern kingbird, scissor-tailed flycatcher

GREBES - common loon, horned grebe, eared grebe, pied-billed grebe

GULLS, TERNS & SKIMMERS - laughing gull, Franklin's gull, Bonaparte's gull, ring-billed gull, herring gull, gull-billed tern, Caspian tern, royal tern, sandwich tern, common tern, forster's tern, least tern, black tern, black skimmer

IBISES, SPOONBILL & STORK - white ibis, glossy ibis, white-faced ibis, roseate spoonbill, wood stork

KINGFISHER - belted kingfisher

LARKS, SWALLOWS, JAY & CROW - horned lark, purple martin, tree swallow, northern rough-winged swallow, bank swallow, cliff swallow, cave swallow, barn swallow, blue jay, American crow

OWLS & NIGHTHAWKS - barn owl, eastern screech owl, great horned owl, burrowing owl, barred owl, short-eared owl, common nighthawk, chuck-will's widow, whip-poor-will

PELICANS & CORMORANTS - American white pelican, brown pelican, double-crested cormorant, neotropic cormorant

PHEASANT, TURKEY & QUAIL - ring-necked pheasant, wild turkey, northern bobwhite

PIPITS, WAXWING, SHRIKE & STARLING - American pipit, Sprague's pipit, cedar waxwing, loggerhead shrike, European starling

PLOVERS & OYSTERCATCHER - black-bellied plover, American golden plover, snowy plover, Wilson's plover, semipalmated plover, piping plover, kildeer mountain plover, American oystercatcher

RAILS, GALLINULE & COOT - yellow rail, black rail, clapper rail, king rail, Virginia rail, sora, purple gallinule, common moorhen, American coot

SANDPIPERS & PHALAROPE - greater yellowlegs, lesser yellowlegs, solitary sandpiper, willet, spotted sandpiper, upland sandpiper, whimbrel, long-billed curlew, hudsonian godwit, marbled godwit, ruddy turnstone, red knot sanderling, semipalmated sandpiper, western sandpiper, least sandpiper, white-rumped sandpiper, baird's sandpiper, pectoral sandpiper, dunlin, stilt sandpiper, buff-breasted sandpiper, short-billed dowitcher, long-billed dowitcher, common snipe, American woodcock, Wilson's phalarope

SPARROWS, TOWHEES & LONGSPUR - green-tailed towhee, spotted towhee, eastern towhee, chipping sparrow, clay-colored sparrow, field sparrow, vesper sparrow, lark sparrow, lark bunting, savannah sparrow, grasshopper sparrow, Leconte's sparrow, sharp-tailed sparrow, seaside sparrow, fox sparrow, song sparrow, Lincoln's sparrow, swamp sparrow, white-throated sparrow, white-crowned sparrow, dark-eyed junco

STILT & AVOCET - black-necked stilt, American avocet

SWIFTS & HUMMINGBIRDS - chimney swift, buff-bellied hummingbird, ruby-throated hummingbird, black-chinned hummingbird, Anna's hummingbird, broad-tailed hummingbird, rufous hummingbird

TANAGERS, CARDINAL, GROSBEAKS & BUNTING - summer tanager, scarlet tanager, western tanager, northern cardinal, pyrrhuloxia, rose-breasted grosbeak, black-headed grosbeak, blue grosbeak, indigo bunting, painted bunting, dickcissel

THRUSH & ALLIES - eastern bluebird, veery, gray-cheeked thrush, Swainson's thrush, hermit thrush, wood thrush, American robin, gray catbird, northern mockingbird, brown thrasher, long-billed thrasher, curved-billed thrasher

VIREOS - white-eyed vireo, bell's vireo, blue-headed vireo, yellow-throated vireo, warbling vireo, Philadelphia vireo, red-eyed vireo

VULTURES, KITES, EAGLES & HAWKS - black vulture, turkey vulture, osprey, swallow-tailed kite, white tailed kite, Mississippi kite, bald eagle, northern harrier, sharp-shinned hawk, cooper's hawk, Harris' hawk, red-shouldered hawk, broad-winged hawk, Swainson's hawk, white-tailed hawk, red-tailed hawk, ferruginous hawk

WOOD WARBLERS - blue-winged warbler, golden-winged warbler, Tennessee warbler, orange-crowned warbler, Nashville warbler, northern parula, yellow warbler, chestnut-sided warbler, magnolia warbler, cape may warbler, yellow-rumped warbler, black-throated green warbler, blackburnian warbler, yellow-throated warbler, pine warbler, prairie warbler, palm warbler, bay-breasted warbler, blackpoll warbler, cerulean warbler, black-and-white warbler, American redstart, prothonotary warbler, worm-eating warbler, Swainson's warbler, ovenbird, northern waterthrush, Louisiana waterthrush, Kentucky warbler, mourning warbler, Macgillivray's warbler, common yellowthroat, Wilson's warbler, Canada warbler, yellow-breasted chat, hooded warbler

WOODPECKERS - red-headed woodpecker, golden-fronted woodpecker, red-bellied woodpecker, yellow-bellied sapsucker, ladder-backed woodpecker, downy woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, northern flicker, pileated woodpecker

WRENS, KINGLETS & GNATCATCHER - Carolina wren, Bewick's wren, house wren, winter wren, sedge wren, marsh wren, golden-crowned kinglet, ruby-crowned kinglet, blue-gray gnatcatcher


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