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Team Information: Bexar Butter Butts
Team Checklist
- Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
- Eared Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
- American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus
- Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
- Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
- Snowy Egret Egretta thula
- Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
- Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
- Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Green-winged Teal Anas crecca
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- American Wigeon Anas americana
- Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata
- Blue-winged Teal Anas discors
- Redhead Aythya americana
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus
- Cooper's Hawk Accipiter cooperii
- Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
- Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
- Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
- Crested Caracara Caracara cheriway
- Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
- American Coot Fulica americana
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
- American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
- Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
- Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
- Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
- Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
- Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
- Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
- Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
- Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) Columba livia
- Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto
- White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
- Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker Picoides scalaris
- Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
- Couch's Kingbird Tyrannus couchii
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus
- Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
- American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis
- Bank Swallow Riparia riparia
- Cave Swallow Petrochelidon fulva
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Black-crested Titmouse Baeolophus atricristatus
- Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
- House Wren Troglodytes aedon
- Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
- European Starling Sturnus vulgaris
- Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
- Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
- Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
- Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
- Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus
- Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
- House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
- House Sparrow Passer domesticus
Team Notes
Participants: Sheridan Coffey, Martin Reid, Mary Ann Golden, Dodge Engleman
Weather: Mostly cloudy, winds 10 to 20 miles per hour
Location: Mitchell Lake Audubon Center San Antonio Tx
Time At Location: From 630AM to 400PM
Notes:
Our team compiled 77 species, two short of our total last year. We struggled greatly with the wind, which limited our passerines. We had 15 species of shorebirds which were in continuous disarray due to a very active juvenile Peregrine. Right before dawn at least four Great Horned Owls were calling across the lake. Huge numbers of American White Pelicans were both on the lake and flying overhead. Two Northern Harriers, the first seen this fall at the center, zipped by, obviously migrating. We had no rarities but were happy with the diversity that we did have.
