Brown Noddy
-Anous stolidus-
Also: Common Noddy
A medium sized, tropical, highly pelagic, dark brown tern with grayish-white forehead, black bill and...
Coastal Birding
Least Tern
- Sterna Antillarum-
All terns are distinguished from gulls by pointed wings, bill shape and their feeding technique of plunge-diving...
Whooping Crane
-Grus americana-The whooping crane, our tallest bird, is native only to North America. Listed as highly endangered, the sole remaining...
Great Egret
-Ardea alba-Tall, extremely slender bird with a long neck, black legs and feet and a thin yellow bill. Carries its...
Cattle Egret
-Bubulcus ibis-
One of Nature's winners, the cattle egret is one of the few birds that I have encountered everywhere...
Ring-billed Gull
Yellow bill with a complete black band encircling it mid-length. Yellow legs and feet.
Breeds on prairies and lakes of...
American Oystercatcher
Exclusively coastal from Cape Cod to Chile. Found on beaches and shell bars where it feeds on mollusks, crabs and...
Osprey
Also known as fish hawk. Dark brown above, white below, with a white head and a prominent dark eye stripe....
Peregrin Falcon
Crown and nape are black; black wedge extends below eye, forming a distinctive helmet.
Highly migratory; abundance in our area...
Brown Pelican
A common sight on beach fronts nowadays but it has not always been so. In 1978 Texas' entire brown pelican...
