A Checklist of the Birds of
BIG BEND, TEXAS
Bold-faced species are rare, unusual or local species.
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May |
May |
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1996 |
1999 |
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Greater White-fronted Goose |
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Snow Goose |
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Ross's Goose |
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Canada Goose |
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Wood Duck |
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Gadwall |
x |
x |
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American Wigeon |
x |
x |
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Mallard |
x |
x |
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Mottled Duck |
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x |
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Blue-winged Teal |
x |
x |
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Cinnamon Teal |
x |
x |
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Northern Shoveler |
x |
x |
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Northern Pintail |
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Green-winged Teal |
x |
x |
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Canvasback |
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Redhead |
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x |
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Ring-necked Duck |
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Greater Scaup |
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Lesser Scaup |
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Bufflehead |
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Common Goldeneye |
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Hooded Merganser |
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Common Merganser |
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x |
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Red-breasted Merganser |
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x |
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Ruddy Duck |
x |
x |
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Wild Turkey (Rio Grande) |
x |
x |
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Scaled Quail |
x |
x |
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Gambel's Quail |
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x |
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Northern Bobwhite |
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Montezuma Quail |
x |
x |
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Common Loon |
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x |
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Pied-billed Grebe |
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x |
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Eared Grebe |
x |
x |
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Western Grebe |
x |
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Clark's Grebe |
x |
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American White Pelican |
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x |
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Neotropic Cormorant |
x |
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Double-crested Cormorant |
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American Bittern |
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Least Bittern |
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Great Blue Heron |
x |
x |
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Great Egret |
x |
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Snowy Egret |
x |
x |
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Little Blue Heron |
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Tricolored Heron |
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Reddish Egret |
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Cattle Egret |
x |
x |
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Green Heron |
x |
x |
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Black-crowned Night-Heron |
x |
x |
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Yellow-crowned Night-Heron |
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White Ibis |
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White-faced Ibis |
x |
x |
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Black Vulture |
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x |
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Turkey Vulture |
x |
x |
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Osprey |
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Mississippi Kite |
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x |
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Northern Harrier |
x |
x |
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Sharp-shinned Hawk |
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Cooper's Hawk |
x |
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Common Black-Hawk |
x |
x |
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Harris's Hawk |
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x |
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Red-shouldered Hawk |
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Broad-winged Hawk |
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Gray Hawk |
x |
x |
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Swainson's Hawk |
x |
x |
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Zone-tailed Hawk |
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x |
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Red-tailed Hawk |
x |
x |
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Golden Eagle |
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Crested Caracara |
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American Kestrel |
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x |
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Merlin |
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Peregrine Falcon |
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Prairie Falcon |
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Virginia Rail |
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Sora |
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Common Moorhen |
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x |
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American Coot |
x |
x |
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Sandhill Crane |
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Black-bellied Plover |
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American Golden-Plover |
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Snowy Plover |
x |
x |
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Semipalmated Plover |
x |
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Killdeer |
x |
x |
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Black-necked Stilt |
x |
x |
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American Avocet |
x |
x |
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Spotted Sandpiper |
x |
x |
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Solitary Sandpiper |
x |
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Greater Yellowlegs |
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x |
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Willet |
x |
x |
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Lesser Yellowlegs |
x |
x |
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Upland Sandpiper |
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Long-billed Curlew |
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x |
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Marbled Godwit |
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Ruddy Turnstone |
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Red Knot |
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Sanderling |
x |
x |
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Semipalmated Sandpiper |
x |
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Western Sandpiper |
x |
x |
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Least Sandpiper |
x |
x |
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White-rumped Sandpiper |
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Baird's Sandpiper |
x |
x |
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Pectoral Sandpiper |
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Dunlin |
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Stilt Sandpiper |
x |
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Short-billed Dowitcher |
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Long-billed Dowitcher |
x |
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Wilson's Snipe |
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Wilson's Phalarope |
x |
x |
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Red-necked Phalarope |
x |
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Laughing Gull |
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x |
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Franklin's Gull |
x |
x |
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Bonaparte's Gull |
x |
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Ring-billed Gull |
x |
x |
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Herring Gull |
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Least Tern |
x |
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Caspian Tern |
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Common Tern |
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x |
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Forster's Tern |
x |
x |
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Rock Pigeon |
x |
x |
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Band-tailed Pigeon |
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x |
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Eurasian Collared-Dove |
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White-winged Dove |
x |
x |
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Mourning Dove |
x |
x |
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Inca Dove |
x |
x |
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Common Ground-Dove |
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x |
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
x |
x |
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Greater Roadrunner |
x |
x |
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Barn Owl |
x |
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Western Screech-Owl |
x |
x |
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Eastern Screech-Owl |
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Great Horned Owl |
x |
x |
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Elf Owl |
x |
x |
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Burrowing Owl |
x |
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Lesser Nighthawk |
x |
x |
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Common Nighthawk |
x |
x |
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Common Poorwill |
x |
x |
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Chuck-will's-widow |
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Whip-poor-will |
x |
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Chimney Swift |
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White-throated Swift |
x |
x |
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Blue-throated Hummingbird |
x |
x |
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Magnificent Hummingbird |
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Lucifer Hummingbird |
x |
x |
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
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Black-chinned Hummingbird |
x |
x |
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Broad-tailed Hummingbird |
x |
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Belted Kingfisher |
x |
x |
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Lewis's Woodpecker |
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Acorn Woodpecker |
x |
x |
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Golden-fronted Woodpecker |
x |
x |
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Williamson's Sapsucker |
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
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Ladder-backed Woodpecker |
x |
x |
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Northern Flicker |
x |
x |
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Olive-sided Flycatcher |
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x |
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Western Wood-Pewee |
x |
x |
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Acadian Flycatcher |
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Least Flycatcher |
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Hammond's Flycatcher |
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x |
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Gray Flycatcher |
x |
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Cordilleran Flycatcher |
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x |
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Black Phoebe |
x |
x |
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Eastern Phoebe |
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Say's Phoebe |
x |
x |
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Vermilion Flycatcher |
x |
x |
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Ash-throated Flycatcher |
x |
x |
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Great Crested Flycatcher |
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Brown-crested Flycatcher |
x |
x |
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Tropical Kingbird |
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x |
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Cassin's Kingbird |
x |
x |
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Western Kingbird |
x |
x |
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Eastern Kingbird |
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Scissor-tailed Flycatcher |
x |
x |
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Loggerhead Shrike |
x |
x |
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White-eyed Vireo |
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x |
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Bell's Vireo |
x |
x |
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Black-capped Vireo |
x |
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Gray Vireo |
x |
x |
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Yellow-throated Vireo |
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Plumbeous Vireo |
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x |
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Blue-headed Vireo |
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Hutton's Vireo |
x |
x |
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Warbling Vireo |
x |
x |
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Philadelphia Vireo |
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Red-eyed Vireo |
x |
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Western Scrub-Jay |
x |
x |
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Mexican Jay |
x |
x |
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Chihuahuan Raven |
x |
x |
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Common Raven |
x |
x |
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Horned Lark |
x |
x |
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Purple Martin |
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Tree Swallow |
x |
x |
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Violet-green Swallow |
x |
x |
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Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
x |
x |
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Bank Swallow |
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Cliff Swallow |
x |
x |
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Cave Swallow |
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x |
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Barn Swallow |
x |
x |
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Carolina Chickadee |
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Mountain Chickadee |
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Black-crested Titmouse |
x |
x |
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Verdin |
x |
x |
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Bushtit |
x |
x |
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White-breasted Nuthatch |
x |
x |
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Cactus Wren |
x |
x |
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Rock Wren |
x |
x |
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Canyon Wren |
x |
x |
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Carolina Wren |
x |
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Bewick's Wren |
x |
x |
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House Wren |
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Marsh Wren |
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x |
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
x |
x |
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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
x |
x |
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Black-tailed Gnatcatcher |
x |
x |
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Eastern Bluebird |
x |
x |
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Western Bluebird |
x |
x |
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Townsend's Solitaire |
x |
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Veery |
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Gray-cheeked Thrush |
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Swainson's Thrush |
x |
x |
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Hermit Thrush |
x |
x |
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Wood Thrush |
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American Robin |
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x |
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Gray Catbird |
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Northern Mockingbird |
x |
x |
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Brown Thrasher |
x |
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Long-billed Thrasher |
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x |
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Curve-billed Thrasher |
x |
x |
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Crissal Thrasher |
x |
x |
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European Starling |
x |
x |
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American Pipit |
x |
x |
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Cedar Waxwing |
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x |
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Phainopepla |
x |
x |
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Blue-winged Warbler |
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Tennessee Warbler |
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Orange-crowned Warbler |
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Nashville Warbler |
x |
x |
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Virginia's Warbler |
x |
x |
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Colima Warlber |
x |
x |
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Northern Parula |
x |
x |
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Yellow Warbler |
x |
x |
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Chestnut-sided Warbler |
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Magnolia Warbler |
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Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler |
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Yellow-rumped (Aud's) Warbler |
x |
x |
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Black-throated Gray Warbler |
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Black-throated Green Warbler |
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Townsend's Warbler |
x |
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Blackburnian Warbler |
x |
x |
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Yellow-throated Warbler |
x |
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Bay-breasted Warbler |
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Blackpoll Warbler |
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Black-and-white Warbler |
x |
x |
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American Redstart |
x |
x |
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Prothonotary Warbler |
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Ovenbird |
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Northern Waterthrush |
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Lousiana Waterthrush |
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Kentucky Warbler |
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MacGillivray's Warbler |
x |
x |
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Common Yellowthroat |
x |
x |
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Hooded Warbler |
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Wilson's Warbler |
x |
x |
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Canada Warbler |
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Yellow-breasted Chat |
x |
x |
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Hepatic Tanager |
x |
x |
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Summer Tanager |
x |
x |
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Scarlet Tanager |
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Western Tanager |
x |
x |
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Green-tailed Towhee |
x |
x |
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Spotted Towhee |
x |
x |
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Canyon Towhee |
x |
x |
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Cassin's Sparrow |
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Rufous-crowned Sparrow |
x |
x |
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Chipping Sparrow |
x |
x |
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Clay-colored Sparrow |
x |
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Brewer's Sparrow |
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Field Sparrow |
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Black-chinned Sparrow |
x |
x |
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Vesper Sparrow |
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x |
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Lark Sparrow |
x |
x |
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Black-throated Sparrow |
x |
x |
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Lark Bunting |
x |
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Savannah Sparrow |
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x |
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Grasshopper Sparrow |
x |
x |
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Song Sparrow |
x |
x |
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Lincoln's Sparrow |
x |
x |
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Swamp Sparrow |
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White-crowned Sparrow |
x |
x |
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Dark-eyed Junco |
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Northern Cardinal |
x |
x |
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Pyrrhuloxia |
x |
x |
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
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x |
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Black-headed Grosbeak |
x |
x |
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Blue Grosbeak |
x |
x |
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Lazuli Bunting |
x |
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Indigo Bunting |
x |
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Varied Bunting |
x |
x |
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Painted Bunting |
x |
x |
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Dickcissel |
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Bobolink |
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Red-winged Blackbird |
x |
x |
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Eastern Meadowlark |
x |
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Western Meadowlark |
x |
x |
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Yellow-headed Blackbird |
x |
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Rusty Blackbird |
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Brewer's Blackbird |
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Common Grackle |
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Great-tailed Grackle |
x |
x |
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Bronzed Cowbird |
x |
x |
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Brown-headed Cowbird |
x |
x |
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Orchard Oriole |
x |
x |
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Hooded Oriole |
x |
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Bullock's Oriole |
x |
x |
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Baltimore Oriole |
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Scott's Oriole |
x |
x |
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House Finch |
x |
x |
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Pine Siskin |
x |
x |
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Lesser Goldfinch |
x |
x |
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American Goldfinch |
x |
x |
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House Sparrow |
x |
x |
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Total Species |
187 |
187 |
x = observed d = dead
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May |
May |
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1996 |
1999 |
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MAMMALS |
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Virginia Opossum |
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d |
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Striped Skunk |
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d |
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Raccoon |
x |
d |
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Ringtail |
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Gray Fox |
x |
x |
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Coyote |
x |
x |
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Bobcat |
x |
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Thriteen-lined Ground Squirrel |
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Spotted Ground Squirrel |
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x |
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Mexican Ground Squirrel |
x |
x |
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Eastern Gray Squirrel |
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Rock Squirrel |
x |
x |
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Eastern Fox Squirrel |
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Nutria |
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Desert Cottontail |
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Eastern Cottontail |
x |
x |
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Blacktail Jackrabbit |
x |
x |
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Whitetail Deer |
x |
x |
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Mule Deer |
x |
x |
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Nine-banded Armadillo |
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Collared Peccary (Javelina) |
x |
x |
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Mexican Free-tailed Bat |
x |
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Western Mastiff Bat |
x |
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Pronghorn |
x |
x |
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Porcupine |
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Hispid Cotton Rat |
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Merriam's Kangaroo Rat |
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x |
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REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS |
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Big Bend Canyon Lizard |
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Texas Horned Lizard |
x |
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Blue Spiny Lizard |
x |
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Desert Spiny Lizard |
x |
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Crevice Spiny Lizard |
x |
x |
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Texas Spiny Lizard |
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Greater Earless Lizard |
x |
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Brown Anole |
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Green Anole |
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x |
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Eastern Fence Lizard |
x |
x |
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Five-lined Skink |
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Great Plains Skink |
x |
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Checkered Whiptail |
x |
x |
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Texas Spotted Lizard |
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Trans-Pecos Striped Whiptail |
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x |
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Trans-Pecos Rat Snake |
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x |
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Bull Snake |
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Western Coach Whip |
x |
x |
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Long-nosed Snake |
x |
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Ribbon/Garter Snake |
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Tree Frog sp (green) |
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Canyon Tree Frog |
x |
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Bullfrog |
x |
x |
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Texas Toad |
x |
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Mexican Leopard Frog |
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Berlandier's Gopher Tortoise |
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Guadalupe Spiny Softshell |
x |
x |
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Yellow Mud Turtle |
x |
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Big Bend Slider |
x |
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Red-eared Slider |
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x |
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FISHES |
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Big Bend Mosquito Fish |
x |
x |
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Pecos Pupfish |
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x |
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Longear Sunfish |
x |
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Channel Catfish |
|
x |
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Flathead Catfish |
x |
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Black Bullhead |
|
x |
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Carp |
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Largemouth Bass |
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Bluegill |
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x |
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Green Sunfish |
|
x |
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Rio Grande Perch |
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CACTI (many in flower) |
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Blind Pear |
x |
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Purple Prickly Pear |
x |
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Englemann's Prickly Pear |
x |
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Spinyfruit Prickly Pear |
x |
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Brown-spined Prickly Pear |
x |
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Claret Cup |
x |
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Eagle Claws |
x |
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Cane Cholla |
x |
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Candle Cholla |
x |
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Robust Hedgehog |
x |
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Strawberry Cactus |
x |
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Green-flowered Fishhook |
x |
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INVERTEBRATES |
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Tree Snail sp. (white) |
x |
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Ant Lion |
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Tarantula |
x |
x |
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Tarantula Hawk |
x |
x |
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Deseret Millipede |
x |
x |
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Dobsonfly |
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Scarab Beetle |
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Scorpion |
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NATURAL PHENOMENA |
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Dust Devils |
x |
x |
Lightning across the desert and
mountains |
x |
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Fresh Cougar tracks on our
Colima Warbler hike |
x |
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Cactus Wren caught, killed, and
ate a Scorpion
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x |
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A Checklist of the Birds of BIG BEND, TEXAS
Compiled by Robert M. Schutsky
Bird Treks, 216 Spring Lane
Peach Bottom, PA USA 17563-4008
717-548-3303 info@birdtreks.com
www.birdtreks.com
Created by Valerie K. M. Schutsky
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