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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
11

Here are the sightings submitted:

       Species seen: Belted Kingfisher Number Seen: 2
       Species seen: Eastern Phoebe    Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: House Wren        Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: Northern Mockingbird      Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: Common Yellowthroat       Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: Red-winged Blackbird      Number Seen: 35
       Species seen: Great-tailed Grackle      Number Seen: 11
       Species seen: American Wigeon   Number Seen: 180
       Species seen: Mottled Duck      Number Seen: 4
       Species seen: Blue-winged Teal  Number Seen: 17
       Species seen: Northern Shoveler Number Seen: 3
       Species seen: Northern Pintail  Number Seen: 180
       Species seen: Green-winged Teal Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: Redhead   Number Seen: 540
       Species seen: Greater Scaup     Number Seen: 2
       Species seen: Lesser Scaup      Number Seen: 9
       Species seen: Red-breasted Merganser    Number Seen: 17
       Species seen: Pied-billed Grebe Number Seen: 4
       Species seen: American White Pelican    Number Seen: 450
       Species seen: Brown Pelican     Number Seen: 650
       Species seen: Neotropic Cormorant       Number Seen: 80
       Species seen: Double-crested Cormorant  Number Seen: 2
       Species seen: Great Blue Heron  Number Seen: 9
       Species seen: Great Egret       Number Seen: 3
       Species seen: Snowy Egret       Number Seen: 2
       Species seen: Little Blue Heron Number Seen: 4
       Species seen: Tricolored Heron  Number Seen: 7
       Species seen: Reddish Egret     Number Seen: 2
       Species seen: Cattle Egret      Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: Black-crowned Night-Heron Number Seen: 2
       Species seen: White Ibis        Number Seen: 11
       Species seen: Roseate Spoonbill Number Seen: 6
       Species seen: Osprey    Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: Northern Harrier  Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: Peregrine Falcon  Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: Common Gallinule  Number Seen: 4
       Species seen: American Coot     Number Seen: 10
       Species seen: Black-bellied Plover      Number Seen: 4
       Species seen: Spotted Sandpiper Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: Greater Yellowlegs        Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: Willet    Number Seen: 7
       Species seen: Long-billed Curlew        Number Seen: 3
       Species seen: Ruddy Turnstone   Number Seen: 3
       Species seen: Sanderling        Number Seen: 5
       Species seen: Western Sandpiper Number Seen: 4
       Species seen: Least Sandpiper   Number Seen: 7
       Species seen: Dunlin    Number Seen: 6
       Species seen: Short-billed Dowitcher    Number Seen: 8
       Species seen: Long-billed Dowitcher     Number Seen: 3
       Species seen: Laughing Gull     Number Seen: 400
       Species seen: Ring-billed Gull  Number Seen: 11
       Species seen: Herring Gull      Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: Caspian Tern      Number Seen: 1
       Species seen: Forster's Tern    Number Seen: 4
       Species seen: Royal Tern        Number Seen: 18
       Species seen: Rock Pigeon       Number Seen: 7
       Species seen: Eurasian Collared-Dove    Number Seen: 4

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