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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
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Black-bellied Whistling-Duck : 8 
Mottled Duck : 4 
Brown Pelican : 23 
Least Bittern : 4 
Great Blue Heron : 8 
Great Egret : 2 
Snowy Egret : 2 
Reddish Egret : 2 
Little Blue Heron : 1 
Tricolored Heron : 6 
Cattle Egret : 6 
Green Heron : 2 
White Ibis : 3 
Roseate Spoonbill : 2 
Clapper Rail : 6 
Common Moorhen : 8 
Wilson's Plover : 4 
Killdeer : 3 
Black-necked Stilt : 10 
Spotted Sandpiper : 1 
Willet (Eastern) : 8 
Laughing Gull : 26 
Least Tern : 12 
Gull-billed Tern : 4 
Forster's Tern : 6 
Caspian Tern : 4 
Royal Tern : 12 
Sandwich Tern : 2 
Black Skimmer : 6 
Rock Pigeon : 8 
Mourning Dove : 4 
Eurasian Collared-Dove : 2 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo : 1 
Barn Swallow : 8 
Cliff Swallow : 4 
Northern Mockingbird : 4 
Red-winged Blackbird : 16 
Great-tailed Grackle : 18 
Empidonax sp. : 1 
 
Cate Ball 
Manager

(956) 243-8179   

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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South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center 6801 Padre Boulevard, South Padre Island, TX 78597 call (956) 243-8179