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Home to the Wintering Whooping Cranes!               Site Update: January 22, 2012

Helpful Birding Resources and General Information

 

Bird Watching and Gear Checklist:


Binoculars / Spotting Scope
Tripod, Camera & Film
Field Guides
Texas Bird Checklist (ANWR)

Lightweight Backpack
Notebook / Sketch Pad
Pencils & Pens
Trail Maps
Tape Recorder
Sunglasses & Sunscreen
Insect Repellent
Flashlight & Batteries
Rain Poncho / Hooded Jacket

Comfortable Hiking Boots
Drinking Water & Snacks

Compass & Pocket knife
First Aid & Survival Kit

 

Texas Rare Bird Alert Hotlines:

 

Coastal Bend (Corpus Christi)
361-883-7410


Rio Grande Valley
956-584-2731


San Antonio
210-308-6788


Austin
512-926-8751


Houston (state wide)
713-369-9673


Abilene
915-691-8981

 

Helpful Birding Resource Links:

There's a wealth of information to share!

 Learn How To Bird with Roger Tory Peterson

Audubon Outdoor Club of Corpus Christi

Texas Hawk Watches   Texas Whooping Cranes

Audubon & Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program CBBEP

Aransas National Wildlife Refuge

Goose Island State Park

Texas Audubon Society

Passport to Texas

Texas Parks and Wildlife

 Texas Nature & Birding Festivals

Texas Bird Checklist (ANWR)

Travel Texas

Aransas/Matagorda Island National Wildlife Refuge

Birds and Birding Facts (Texas Bird Checklist)

The King Ranch Birds

Texas National Wildlife Refuges/Marine Sanctuaries

Index of Threatened/Endangered Birds of Texas (TPWD)

Texas Hummingbird Roundup (TPWD)

Texas Ornithological Society

Texas Highways Magazine

Fennessey Ranch

The Virtual Birder

Texas Bird Records Committee (Texas Bird Checklist)

Gulf Coast Bird Observatory

Texas Birding;   South Texas Birds

 

Texas' Wildlife Refuges (Texas Bird Checklist)

Aransas Bird and Nature Club

Contact: 361-790-5937, 

361-729-4650 or 361-790-9353

 

 Friends of Aransas & Matagorda Island National Wildlife Refuges

Contact Ray Little: 361-729-881,

Barbara Bruns: 361-575-5505

 

 

Coastal Bend Audubon Society

(Click above for Birding Calendar)

Contact: Terri Nicolau or call 361-885-6202

 

 

Friends of Goose Is. State Park

 

 

 

 

 

Texas Audubon Society

 

National Audubon Society

 

Texas Partners in Flight

Houston Audubon Society

Galveston Bay Foundation

Texas Panhandle Bird Club

El Paso/Trans Pecos Audubon Society

San Antonio Audubon Society

Texas Parks and Wildlife

 

The Texas Gulf Coast Birding and Naturalist Home

Birds of the Upper Texas Coast 

Birds of the Central Brazos Valley

The Texas Gulf Coast Birding and Naturalist

Birds of the Upper Texas Coast

Birds of the Central Brazos Valley

The Nature Conservancy in Texas

 

 

 Available Book Resources:

ARANSAS - A Naturalist's Guide by Wayne H. and Martha K. McAlister, published 1995; University of Texas Press, P.O. Box 7819, Austin, TX 78713-7819, ISBN 09292-75171-0

MATAGORDA ISLAND - A Naturalist's Guide by Wayne H. and Martha K. McAlister, published 1993; University of Texas Press, P.O. Box 7819, Austin, TX 78713-7819, ISBN 09292-75171-0

CONNIE HAGAR - The Life History of a Texas Birdwatcher, by Karen Harden McCracken, published 1986 by Texas A&M University Press (College Station), John H. Lindsey Building 4354 TAMU College Station, Texas 77843-4354 ISBN 0-89096-248-0

ARANSAS - The Life of a Texas Coastal County by William Allen and Sue Hastings Taylor, published 1997 by Eakin Press, P.O. Drawer 90159, Austin, TX 78709, ISBN 1-57168-205-8

BIRDS OF THE TEXAS COASTAL BEND: Abundance & Distribution by John H. Rappole, Gene W. Blacklock, published July 1985; University of Texas Press, P.O. Box 7819, Austin, TX 78713-7819 

BIRDS OF TEXAS: A Field Guide by John Rappole, Gene W. Blacklock, published April 1994; University of Texas Press, P.O. Box 7819, Austin, TX 78713-7819

BIRDERS GUIDE TO THE TEXAS COAST - distributed by American Birding Association, P.O. Box 6599, Colorado Springs, CO 80934-6599 USA Ph: 800-247-3329 (USA & Canada) 1993

FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA - National Geographic Society ISBN 0-7922-7451-2 Library of Congress; 1987

THE SIBLEY GUIDE TO BIRDS - National Audubon Society, ISBN 0-679-45122-6; Chanticleer Press, Inc.; 2000

ROGER TORY PETERSON FIELD GUIDES - Review and order books by clicking here.

 

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