Lower Rio Grande Valley Trip

From February 20 - 26 I had the pleasure of birding the Lower Rio Grande Valley with my wife, Kelly, and Amy Hooper, the editor of WildBird. This trip was a result of my winning the Birder of the Year award from WildBird magazine. I wish to thank WildBird, Bushnell, and the other sponsors who made this trip possible (The Alamo Inn, The Brown Pelican Inn, and Colley's Fins to Feathers). Unfortunately, every day was extremely cloudy making poor conditions for quality pictures. All photos were taken with a Canon EOS-20D camera and a 400mm lens (sometimes with a 1.4x teleconverter).

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Altamira Oriole	Green Jay	Ringed Kingfisher
Aplomado Falcon	Harris's Hawk	Roseate Spoonbill
Audubon's Oriole	Hooded Oriole	Rose-throated Becard
Bewick's Wren	Inca Dove	Sora
Black-crested Titmouse	Lark Sparrow	Spotted Sandpiper
Black-throated Sparrow	Least Grebe	Tricolored Heron
Blue-winged Teal	Lesser Goldfinch	Turkey Vulture
Brown Jay	Lesser Nighthawk	Vermillion Flycatcher
Brown Pelican	Lincoln's Sparrow	White-eyed Vireo
Cactus Wren	Long-billed Curlew	White-tailed Kite
Clay-colored Sparrow	Long-billed Thrasher	White-throated Robin
Common Moorhen	Muscovy Duck	Wilson's Warbler
Crested Caracara	Neotropic Cormorant	Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Elegant Trogon	Northern Cardinal
Golden-crowned Warbler	Orange-crowned Warbler
Golden-fronted Woodpecker	Osprey
Gray Hawk	Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron	Pyrrhuloxia
Great Egret	Red-billed Pigeon
Great Kiskadee	Reddish Egret
Greater Roadrunner
Great-tailed Grackle