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Last updated March 24, 1999
Welcome!
This page is here to help the visiting birder find the birds of
the Upper Texas Coast (UTC). The UTC is made up of Harris County,
Fort Bend County, Brazoria County, Galveston, Chambers County,
and Jefferson County.
The birds covered by this page are the birds found in this
area that are at the edge of either their eastern, western or
northern range.
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Specialties of the Upper Texas Coast
Those species marked with a
have sound files you can play
from the species account.
- Least Grebe, Tachybaptus
dominicus
- Neotropic Cormorant, Phalacrocorax
brasilianus
- Anhinga, Anhinga anhinga
- Magnificent Frigatebird,
Fregata magnificens
- Pelagic Species
- Little Blue Heron, Egretta
caerulea
- Tricolored Heron (Louisiana
Heron), Egretta tricolor
- Reddish Egret, Egretta
rufescens
- White Ibis, Eudocimus
albus
- White-faced Ibis, Plegadis
chihi
- Glossy Ibis, Plegadis
falcinellus
- Roseate Spoonbill, Ajaia
ajaja
- Wood Stork, Mycteria
americana
- Fulvous Whistling-Duck,
Dendrocygna bicolor
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck,
Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Mottled Duck, Anas fulvigula
- Cinnamon Teal, Anas cyanoptera
- Masked Duck, Oxyura
dominica
- Black Vulture, Coragyps
atratus
- White-tailed Kite (Black-shouldered
Kite), Elanus leucurus majusulus
- White-tailed Hawk, Buteo
albicaudatus
- Crested Caracara, Polyborus
plancus
- Greater Prairie-Chicken,
Tympanuchus cupido
- Yellow Rail, Coturnicops
noveboracensis
- Black Rail, Laterallus
jamaicensis
- Clapper Rail, Rallus
longirostris
- King Rail, Rallus elegans
- Purple Gallinule, Porphyrula
martinica
- Sandhill Crane, Grus
canadensis
- Snowy Plover, Charadrius
alexandrinus
- Wilson's Plover, Charadrius
wilsonia
- Piping Plover, Charadrius
melodus
- American Oystercatcher, Haematopus
palliatus
- Black-necked Stilt, Himantopus
mexicanus
- Upland Sandpiper, Bartramia
longicauda
- Eskimo Curlew, Numenius
borealis
- Hudsonian Godwit, Limosa
haemastica
- Marbled Godwit, Limosa
fedoa
- White-rumped Sandpiper,
Calidris fuscicollis
- Baird's Sandpiper, Calidris
bairdii
- Jaegers
- Gull-billed Tern, Sterna
nilotica
- Least Tern, Sterna antillarum
- Sandwich Tern, Sterna
sandvicensis
- Black Skimmer, Rynchops
niger
- Inca Dove, Columbina
inca
- Monk Parakeet, Myiopsitta
monachus
- Groove-billed Ani, Crotophaga
sulcirostris
- Red-headed Woodpecker,
Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Red-bellied Woodpecker,
Melanerpes carolinus
- Red-cockaded Woodpecker,
Picoides borealis
- Pileated Woodpecker, Dryocopus
pileatus
- Empidonax Flycatchers
- Ash-throated Flycatcher,
Myiarchus cinerascens
- Great Crested Flycatcher,
Myiarchus crinitus
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher,
Tyrannus forficatus
- Fish Crow, Corvus ossifragus
- Brown-headed Nuthatch,
Sitta pusilla
- Eastern Bluebird, Sialia
sialis
- Brown Thrasher, Toxostoma
rufum
- Sprague's Pipit, Anthus
spragueii
- Swainson's Warbler, Limnothlypis
swainsonii
- Kentucky Warbler, Oporornis
formosus
- Hooded Warbler, Wilsonia
citrina
- Painted Bunting, Passerina
ciris
- Dickcissel, Spiza americana
- Bachman's Sparrow, Aimophila
aestivalis
- Henslow's Sparrow, Ammodramus
henslowii
- Le Conte's Sparrow, Ammodramus
leconteii
- Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow,
Ammodramus nelsoni
- Seaside Sparrow, Ammodramus
maritimus
- Swamp Sparrow, Melospiza
georgiana
- Harris's Sparrow, Zonotrichia
querula
- Bronzed Cowbird, Molothrus
aeneus
- Great-tailed Grackle, Quiscalus
mexicanus
- Boat-tailed Grackle, Quiscalus
major
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