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	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.

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host posted on May 31, 2010 11:17

It seems like a lot of birds missed the bus headed north. It was quite a surprise to see this many migrating species still at the Convention Center.

Number of Species: 54
    Black-bellied Whistling-Duck    : 9
    Mottled Duck    : 5
    Brown Pelican    : 7
    Great Blue Heron    : 11
    Great Egret    : 1
    Snowy Egret    : 1
    Little Blue Heron    : 1
    Tricolored Heron    : 6
    Reddish Egret    : 1
    Cattle Egret    : 14
    Green Heron    : 2
    Yellow-crowned Night-Heron    : 1

    Least Bittern   : 3
    White Ibis    : 2
    Turkey Vulture    : 1
    Osprey    : 1
    Clapper Rail    : 2
    Common Moorhen    : 2
    Wilson's Plover    : 2
    Killdeer    : 1
    Black-necked Stilt    : 11
    Greater Yellowlegs    : 2
    Willet    : 11
    Semipalmated Sandpiper    : 2
    Dunlin    : 4
    Laughing Gull    : 10
    Ring-billed Gull    : 1
    Least Tern    : 7
    Caspian Tern    : 2
    Black Tern    : 2
    Royal Tern    : 4
    Sandwich Tern    : 6
    Black Skimmer    : 6
    Rock Pigeon    : 2
    Eurasian Collared-Dove    : 1
    Mourning Dove    : 4
    Yellow-billed Cuckoo    : 1
    Ruby-throated/Black-chinned Hummingbird    : 2
    Eastern Wood-Pewee    : 1
    Tropical/Couch's Kingbird    : 2
    Eastern Kingbird    : 1
    Red-eyed Vireo    : 1
    Barn Swallow    : 7
    Cliff Swallow    : 1
    Gray Catbird    : 1
    Northern Mockingbird    : 3
    Yellow Warbler    : 2
    Magnolia Warbler    : 1
    Yellow-rumped Warbler    : 1
    Blackburnian Warbler    : 1
    American Redstart    : 2
    Wilson's Warbler    : 1
    Red-winged Blackbird    : 20
    Eastern Meadowlark    : 1
    Great-tailed Grackle    : 20

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Don't forget about our Birdwalks: Saturdays and Sundays at 9:30 am.

Pelagic trips scheduled for July 17, August 21 & September 11, 2010. $150 ea out of the Osprey Docks here on South Padre Island. Call or e-mail for questions and/or reservations.

See you on the boardwalks...

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