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South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center welcome to the Birding and nature center
The South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center and gift shop is the Rio Grande Valley's premier destination for birdwatching. Our unique location on South Padre Island is the perfect place to observe the birds, butterflies and natural wildlife in coastal South Texas.  Visit us on South Padre Island, walk the bayfront boardwalks, take a birding tour and explore the nature center.
Bird Walk Reports
21

Here are the sightings submitted:

       Species seen: Eastern Kingbird  Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: Purple Martin     Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: Barn Swallow      Number Seen: 4
       Species seen: Marsh Wren        Number Seen: 2
       Species seen: Northern Mockingbird      Number Seen: 4
       Species seen: European Starling Number Seen: 2
       Species seen: Savannah Sparrow  Number Seen: 2
       Species seen: Swamp Sparrow     Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: Red-winged Blackbird      Number Seen: 25
       Species seen: Great-tailed Grackle      Number Seen: 20
       Species seen: Brown-headed Cowbird      Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: Baltimore Oriole  Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: Black-bellied Whistling-Duck      Number Seen: 12
       Species seen: Mottled Duck      Number Seen: 6
       Species seen: Blue-winged Teal  Number Seen: 4
       Species seen: Red-breasted Merganser    Number Seen: 4
       Species seen: Pied-billed Grebe Number Seen: 7
       Species seen: Brown Pelican     Number Seen: 3
       Species seen: Double-crested Cormorant  Number Seen: 2
       Species seen: Least Bittern     Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: Great Blue Heron  Number Seen: 5
       Species seen: Snowy Egret       Number Seen: 3
       Species seen: Little Blue Heron Number Seen: 4
       Species seen: Tricolored Heron  Number Seen: 6
       Species seen: Reddish Egret     Number Seen: 2
       Species seen: Cattle Egret      Number Seen: 40
       Species seen: Black-crowned Night-Heron Number Seen: 2
       Species seen: White Ibis        Number Seen: 7
       Species seen: Turkey Vulture    Number Seen: 2
       Species seen: Osprey    Number Seen: 2
       Species seen: Clapper Rail      Number Seen: 3
       Species seen: Sora      Number Seen: 2
       Species seen: Common Moorhen    Number Seen: 4
       Species seen: Black-bellied Plover      Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: American Golden-Plover    Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: American Oystercatcher    Number Seen: 4
       Species seen: Black-necked Stilt        Number Seen: 9
       Species seen: Spotted Sandpiper Number Seen: 2
       Species seen: Greater Yellowlegs        Number Seen: 6
       Species seen: Willet    Number Seen: 10
       Species seen: Lesser Yellowlegs Number Seen: 4
       Species seen: Marbled Godwit    Number Seen: 5
       Species seen: Ruddy Turnstone   Number Seen: 6
       Species seen: Sanderling        Number Seen: 11
       Species seen: Western Sandpiper Number Seen: 2
       Species seen: Least Sandpiper   Number Seen: 5
       Species seen: Dunlin    Number Seen: 8
       Species seen: Long-billed Dowitcher     Number Seen: 3
       Species seen: Laughing Gull     Number Seen: 55
       Species seen: Franklin's Gull   Number Seen: 15
       Species seen: Ring-billed Gull  Number Seen: 10
       Species seen: Herring Gull      Number Seen: 10
       Species seen: Least Tern        Number Seen: 5
       Species seen: Gull-billed Tern  Number Seen: 4
       Species seen: Caspian Tern      Number Seen: 15
       Species seen: Royal Tern        Number Seen: 23
       Species seen: Sandwich Tern     Number Seen: 5
       Species seen: Black Skimmer     Number Seen: 35
       Species seen: Rock Pigeon       Number Seen: 4
       Species seen: Eurasian Collared-Dove    Number Seen: 6
       Species seen: Mourning Dove     Number Seen: 6

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