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The Lower Rio Grande Valley is America's most productive birding area!.
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Birds, butterflies, dragonflies, amphibians, reptiles, cats and other mammals, and plants - the Lower Rio Grande Valley has them all! Green Jays, Great Kiskadees, Red-Crowned Parrots, Plain Chachalacas - many of the fifty resident bird species are easily found - 513 recorded bird species. When you consider that the state of Texas has 630 bird species and the whole North America American Birding Association area has 914 bird species, it makes our Valley quite a remarkable hot spot, the richest and most diverse bird watching area in the United States and Canada, with over 300 butterfly species, 120 dragonfly (odonate) species, and over 1200 plant species.
Eight annual nature festivals, plus many viewing areas and events. Rub shoulders with the country's best birders. Enjoy nature-friendly hotels and B & Bs. Delight in the best birding and butterflying in the United States.
* For additional general information please call our information line at 800-343-2368 or 956-761-6433.
* To subscribe to Texbirds, our Texas birder information list serve, which is updated by numerous Texas and visiting birders, and monitored by serious birders worldwide, email a message to texbirds@listserv.uh.edu with the message "Subscribe Texbirds (your_name)" in the body of the email.
* Lower Rio Grande Valley Rare Bird Hotline run by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department 956-584-2731. To report rarities sighted, submit an email to rgvbirds@hotmail.com (preferred) or call 956-584-2731 option 3.
Nature Hot Spots
- National Wildlife Refuges: Santa Ana, Laguna Atascosa, and Lower Rio Garnde Valley (open tracts Boca Chica, El Sal Del Rey, Salineno)
- World Birding Centers: Headquarters at Bentsen-RGV State Park, Edinburg Scenic Wetlands, Estero Llano Grande State Park, Harlingen Arroya Colorado/Hugh Ramsey Nature Park, Old Hidalgo Pumphouse, Quinta Mazatlan, Resaca de la Palma State Park, Roma Bluffs, South Padre Island Birding and Nature Cente
- County Parks: Anzalduas, Delta Lake, Adolph Thomae, Falcon
- Private Sanctuaries: Sable Palm Audubon Sanctuary, Sheepshead Valley Land Fund lots on South Padre Island, Los Ebanos Preserve, El Canelo Ranch, Frontera Audubon Sanctuary, Valley Nature Center, Chapeno, San Ygnacio Sanctuary
- Other State Parks: Falcon, Zapata
- Other locations: Brownsville Sanitary Landfill, Fort Brown resaca, Old Port Isabel Road, TX 100 south from Laguna Vista, Rio Hondo Cemetery, Fronton, Santa Margarita Ranch
