Site Report: Aransas NWR (CTC 037) (Aransas Co.)
Whooping Crane (Grus americana) - Eating Snake
Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens)
Sanderling (Calidris alba)
Crested Caracara (Caracara cheriway)
Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) - 1st Winter
Whooping Crane (Grus americana)
Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)
Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra) - Male
Black-crested Titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus)
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Whooping Crane (Grus americana) - Eating Snake
Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens)
Sanderling (Calidris alba)
Crested Caracara (Caracara cheriway)
Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) - 1st Winter
Whooping Crane (Grus americana)
Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)
Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra) - Male
Black-crested Titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus)
Salt Marsh
Visits
- 2013-04-16: We decided to drive over to the coast after we found out that there were still some Whooping Cranes around.
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (68 records)
Phylum: Chordates
(68 records)
Class: Birds
(65 records)
- Order: Anseriformes (5 records)
- Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies
(1 record)
- Family: Cranes
- Whooping Crane (Grus americana)
- Order: Doves and Pigeons
(2 records)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Eurasian Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
- Common Ground-Dove (Columbina passerina)
- Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies
(1 record)
- Family: Osprey
- Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts
(1 record)
- Family: Swifts
- Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica)
- Order: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Motmots
(1 record)
- Family: Kingfishers
- Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon)
- Order: Pelicans
(27 records)
- Family: Cormorants
- Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum)
- Family: Falcons and Caracaras
- Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus)
- Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
- Family: Herons
- Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens)
- Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor)
- Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea)
- Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
- Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
- Great Egret (Ardea alba)
- Western Cattle Egret (Ardea ibis)
- Family: Ibises and Spoonbills
- Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)
- Family: Loons
- Common Loon (Gavia immer)
- Family: Oystercatchers
- American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus)
- Family: Pelicans
- American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos)
- Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa)
- Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
- Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
- Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius)
- Willet (Tringa semipalmata)
- Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
- Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus)
- Sanderling (Calidris alba)
- Western Sandpiper (Calidris mauri)
- Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)
- Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
- Family: Stilts and Avocets
- Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus)
- Order: Perching Birds
(15 records)
- Family: American Blackbirds and Orioles
- Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula)
- Family: Cardinals and Allies
- Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)
- Family: Chickadees and Titmice
- Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis)
- Black-crested Titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus)
- Family: Jays and Crows
- American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
- Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma woodhouseii)
- Family: Mockingbirds, Thrashers, and Allies
- Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis)
- Family: Old World Buntings
- Seaside Sparrow (Ammospiza maritima)
- Family: Old World Sparrows
- House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
- Family: Shrikes
- Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus)
- Family: Swallows
- Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
- Family: Tanagers and Allies
- Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra)
- Family: Tyrant Flycatchers
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus forficatus)
- Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus)
- Family: Vireos
- White-eyed Vireo (Vireo griseus)
- Order: Shorebirds and Allies
(12 records)
- Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)
- American Herring Gull (Larus smithsonianus)
- Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla)
- Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica)
- Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia)
- Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus)
- Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis)
- Forster's Tern (Sterna forsteri)
- Least Tern (Sternula antillarum)
Class: Mammals
(2 records)
- Order: Carnivorans
(2 records)
- Family: Felidae
- Bobcat (Lynx rufus)
- Family: Procyonidae
- Northern Raccoon (Procyon lotor)
Class: Reptiles
(1 record)
- Order: Alligators and Crocodiles
(1 record)
- Family: Alligators
- American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)