SOUTH TEXAS MBW COMPOSITE LIST
(Total = 360 species: 1988-2024)
• Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
• Fulvous Whistling-Duck
• Snow Goose
• Ross's Goose
• Greater White-fronted Goose
• Canada Goose
• Muscovy Duck (r)
• Wood Duck (r)
• Gadwall
• Blue-winged Teal
• Cinnamon Teal
• Northern Shoveler
• American Wigeon
• Mallard (r)
• Mexican Duck (r)
• Mottled Duck
• Northern Pintail
• Green-winged Teal
• Canvasback
• Redhead
• Ring-necked Duck
• Greater Scaup
• Lesser Scaup
• Surf Scoter (1)
• Black Scoter (1)
• Long-tailed Duck (3)
• Bufflehead
• Common Goldeneye
• Hooded Merganser
• Red-breasted Merganser
• Masked Duck (2)
• Ruddy Duck
• Plain Chachalaca
• Northern Bobwhite
• Scaled Quail (r)
• Wild Turkey
• American Flamingo (1)
• Least Grebe
• Pied-billed Grebe
• Eared Grebe
• Rock Pigeon
• Red-billed Pigeon
• Eurasian Collared-Dove
• Inca Dove
• Common Ground Dove
• White-tipped Dove
• White-winged Dove
• Mourning Dove
• Groove-billed Ani
• Greater Roadrunner
• Lesser Nighthawk (2: incl nighthawk, sp.)
• Common Pauraque
• nightjar, sp. (1: possible Tawny-collared)
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• Black-chinned Hummingbird
• Anna's Hummingbird (1)
• Rufous Hummingbird
• Allen's Hummingbird (2)
• Broad-tailed Hummingbird (2)
• Broad-billed Hummingbird (1)
• Buff-bellied Hummingbird
• King Rail
• Clapper Rail
• Virginia Rail
• Sora
• Common Gallinule
• American Coot
• Limpkin (1)
• Sandhill Crane
• Whooping Crane
• Black-necked Stilt
• American Avocet
• American Oystercatcher
• Black-bellied Plover
• Killdeer
• Semipalmated Plover
• Piping Plover
• Mountain Plover (3)
• Snowy Plover
• Northern Jaçana (5)
• Whimbrel (3)
• Long-billed Curlew
• Bar-tailed Godwit (1)
• Marbled Godwit
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Stilt Sandpiper
• Sanderling
• Dunlin
• Purple Sandpiper (2)
• Least Sandpiper
• Pectoral Sandpiper (2)
• Western Sandpiper
• Short-billed Dowitcher
• Long-billed Dowitcher
• Wilson's Snipe
• Spotted Sandpiper
• Solitary Sandpiper
• Lesser Yellowlegs
• Willet
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Wilson's Phalarope (1)
• jaeger, sp. (2: probably Pomarine)
• Black-legged Kittiwake (1)
• Bonaparte's Gull
• Little Gull (2)
• Laughing Gull
• Franklin's Gull (2)
• Ring-billed Gull
• Herring Gull
• Iceland Gull (1)
• Lesser Black-backed Gull (r)
• Slaty-backed Gull (1)
• Glaucous Gull (2)
• Gull-billed Tern
• Caspian Tern
• Black Tern (1)
• Common Tern (3)
• Forster's Tern
• Royal Tern
• Sandwich Tern (r)
• Black Skimmer
• Common Loon
• Magnificent Frigatebird (1)
• Brown Booby (1)
• Northern Gannet (r)
• Anhinga
• Double-crested Cormorant
• Neotropic Cormorant
• American White Pelican
• Brown Pelican
• American Bittern
• Least Bittern (3)
• Bare-throated Tiger-Heron (1)
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Egret
• Snowy Egret
• Little Blue Heron
• Tricolored Heron
• Reddish Egret
• Cattle Egret
• Green Heron
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Yellow-crowned Night Heron
• White Ibis
• White-faced Ibis
• Roseate Spoonbill
• Black Vulture
• Turkey Vulture
• Osprey
• White-tailed Kite
• Hook-billed Kite (r)
• Northern Harrier
• Sharp-shinned Hawk
• Cooper's Hawk
• Crane Hawk (1)
• Common Black Hawk (r)
• Roadside Hawk (3)
• Harris's Hawk
• White-tailed Hawk
• Gray Hawk
• Red-shouldered Hawk
• Broad-winged Hawk (r)
• Swainson's Hawk (1)
• Zone-tailed Hawk
• Red-tailed Hawk
• Ferruginous Hawk (r)
• Barn Owl
• Flammulated Owl (1)
• Eastern Screech-Owl
• Great Horned Owl
• Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl (r)
• Burrowing Owl
• Barred Owl (3)
• Mottled Owl (1)
• Long-eared Owl (1)
• Short-eared Owl (3)
• Elegant Trogon (1)
• Ringed Kingfisher
• Belted Kingfisher
• Green Kingfisher
• Golden-fronted Woodpecker
• Red-bellied Woodpecker (2)
• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
• Red-naped Sapsucker (3)
• Downy Woodpecker (1)
• Ladder-backed Woodpecker
• Northern Flicker (r)
• Collared Forest-Falcon (1)
• Crested Caracara
• American Kestrel
• Merlin
• Aplomado Falcon
• Peregrine Falcon
• Prairie Falcon (1)
• Monk Parakeet
• Green Parakeet
• Red-crowned Parrot
• Masked Tityra (1)
• Gray-collared Becard (1)
• Rose-throated Becard (r)
• Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
• Dusky-capped Flycatcher (3)
• Ash-throated Flycatcher (r)
• Myiarchus flycatcher, sp. (1)
• Great Kiskadee
• Cattle Tyrant (1)
• Tropical Kingbird
• Couch's Kingbird
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (5)
• Greater Pewee (4)
• Least Flycatcher (3: incl Empidonax, sp.)
• Hammond's Flycatcher (1)
• Gray Flycatcher (1)
• Western Flycatcher (1)
• Black Phoebe
• Eastern Phoebe
• Say's Phoebe
• Vermilion Flycatcher
• White-eyed Vireo
• Bell's Vireo (2)
• Blue-headed Vireo
• Loggerhead Shrike
• Brown Jay (r)
• Green Jay
• Blue Jay (1)
• American Crow (3)
• Tamaulipas Crow (r)
• Chihuahuan Raven
• Verdin
• Carolina Chickadee (5)
• Black-crested Titmouse
• Horned Lark
• Bank Swallow (4)
• Tree Swallow
• Northern Rough-winged Swallow
• Purple Martin
• Barn Swallow
• Cliff Swallow (3)
• Cave Swallow
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet
• Golden-crowned Kinglet (r)
• Cedar Waxwing
• Brown Creeper (2)
• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
• Black-tailed Gnatcatcher (r)
• Rock Wren (r)
• Cactus Wren
• Bewick's Wren
• Carolina Wren
• House Wren
• Winter Wren (3)
• Sedge Wren
• Marsh Wren
• Blue Mockingbird (1)
• Gray Catbird
• Curve-billed Thrasher
• Brown Thrasher (4)
• Long-billed Thrasher
• Sage Thrasher (1)
• Northern Mockingbird
• European Starling
• Eastern Bluebird
• Mountain Bluebird (4)
• Townsend's Solitaire (1)
• Hermit Thrush
• Clay-colored Thrush
• White-throated Thrush (5)
• Rufous-backed Robin (1)
• American Robin
• Northern Wheatear (1)
• House Sparrow
• American Pipit
• Sprague's Pipit
• House Finch
• Pine Siskin
• Lesser Goldfinch
• American Goldfinch
• Cassin's Sparrow
• Grasshopper Sparrow (r)
• Olive Sparrow
• Black-throated Sparrow
• Lark Sparrow
• Lark Bunting (r)
• Chipping Sparrow
• Clay-colored Sparrow
• Field Sparrow
• Brewer's Sparrow (1)
• White-crowned Sparrow
• Harris's Sparrow (1)
• White-throated Sparrow (r)
• Vesper Sparrow
• LeConte's Sparrow (1)
• Seaside Sparrow
• Nelson's Sparrow (r)
• Savannah Sparrow
• Song Sparrow (1)
• Lincoln's Sparrow
• Swamp Sparrow
• Rufous-crowned Sparrow (1)
• Green-tailed Towhee (r)
• Spotted Towhee (4)
• Eastern Towhee (4: incl towhee, sp.)
• Yellow-headed Blackbird (r)
• Eastern Meadowlark
• Western Meadowlark
• Black-vented Oriole (2)
• Orchard Oriole (2)
• Hooded Oriole
• Bullock's Oriole (1)
• Altamira Oriole
• Audubon's Oriole
• Baltimore Oriole (2)
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Bronzed Cowbird
• Brown-headed Cowbird
• Brewer's Blackbird
• Common Grackle (5)
• Boat-tailed Grackle
• Great-tailed Grackle
• Ovenbird
• Louisiana Waterthrush (2)
• Northern Waterthrush (2)
• Black-and-white Warbler
• Orange-crowned Warbler
• Nashville Warbler
• Gray-crowned Yellowthroat (4)
• Common Yellowthroat
• American Redstart (1)
• Cape May Warbler (1)
• Northern Parula
• Tropical Parula
• Blackburnian Warbler (2)
• Yellow Warbler (4)
• Palm Warbler (1)
• Pine Warbler
• Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Yellow-throated Warbler
• Prairie Warbler (1)
• Black-throated Gray Warbler
• Townsend's Warbler (1)
• Hermit Warbler (3)
• Black-throated Green Warbler
• Fan-tailed Warbler (1)
• Golden-crowned Warbler (r)
• Wilson's Warbler
• Painted Redstart (3)
• Summer Tanager (r)
• Western Tanager (3)
• Crimson-collared Grosbeak (r)
• Northern Cardinal
• Pyrrhuloxia
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak (3)
• Black-headed Grosbeak (r)
• Blue Bunting (r)
• Lazuli Bunting (2)
• Indigo Bunting
• Painted Bunting (3)
• Dickcissel (4)
• Yellow-faced Grassquit (1)
• Morelet's Seedeater (r)
South Texas MBWeeks Species Totals
• Total = 43 MBWs: incl 2 MBWs in Feb 1990, Feb 1999,
Dec 2011-Feb 2012, Feb 2014, Feb 2018, and Feb
2019; 3 MBWs in Dec 2015-Feb 2016
• Numbers in parentheses after species = found on 5 or
fewer South Texas MBWeeks; (r) = rarities on >5
MBWeeks not seen most years
• exotics = "non-countable" species: mostly escaped/
released parakeets/parrots; plus flamingo, sp. (1995);
West Indian Whistling-Duck (2001, 2002); Aplomado
Falcon (2002, 2007)
• Mexico = seen only on Mexican side of Rio Grande
• 204 = average species total
Year Species
1988 213
1989 202
1990a 185
1990b 180
1991 200
1992 194
1993 209
1994 197
1995 197 (+ 4 exotics)
1996 194
1997 206 (+ 2 exotics)
1998 203
1999a 202
1999b 220
2000 209 (+ 3 exotics)
2001 198 (incl 1 Mexico; + 4 exotics)
2002 202 (+ 5 exotics)
2003 201
2004 205 (+ 2 exotics)
2005 216
2006 213 (+ 1 exotic)
2007 208 (incl 1 Mexico; + 2 exotics)
2008 205
2009 221
2010 205 (+ 1 exotic)
2011 224 (+ 1 exotic)
2012a 211
2012b 228
2013 203 (+ 4 exotics)
2014a 206 (+ 1 exotic)
2014b 200
2015 208 (+ 3 exotics)
2016a 193 (+ 1 exotic)
2016b 202
2016c 231 (+ 2 exotics)
2017 198 (incl 1 Mexico; + 2 exotics)
2018a 183 (+ 2 exotics)
2018b 210 (+ 2 exotics)
2019a 207 (+ 2 exotics)
2019b 196 (+ 1 exotic)
2020 205
2023 186 (+ 10 post-MBW)
2024 214 (incl 1 Mexico; + 2 exotics)