BIRDING REFERENCES & RESOURCES
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are used by the majority of migratory birds that visit Rockport each year. "Bird migration is generally thought of as a north-and-south movement, with the lanes of heavier concentration following the coasts, mountain ranges and principal river valleys. In general, it may be said that the great routes of migration do conform very closely to major topographical features when these happen to lie in the general direction of the travel to be performed. The terms "migration route" and "flyway" are to some extent theoretical concepts, while the latter has, in addition, come to have an administrative meaning. Migration routes may be defined as the lanes of individual travel from any particular breeding ground to the winter quarters of the birds that use them. Flyways, on the other hand, may well be conceived as those broader areas in which related migration routes are associated or blended in a definite geographic region. They are wide arterial highways to which the routes are tributaries." |
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 |
Bird Rehabilitation - 361-852-7008
Texas Birding Resource Links:
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Texas Bird Checklist (ANWR) |
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Birds and Birding Facts (Texas Bird Checklist) |
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Texas Hummingbird Roundup (TPWD) |
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Texas Bird Records Committee (Texas Bird Checklist) |
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Texas' Wildlife Refuges (Texas Bird Checklist) |
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The Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail & Birding Classic (TPWD)
MORE BIRDING RESOURCES: Toledo Bend Lake Area Birding Checklist
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Check out the Birding Archive web site
and the "Passport to Texas" Listening Library!
Jam- packed with great information; pictures, sounds, descriptions, and more!
(Please note that you will need to download the most current version of "RealPlayer" in order to hear the recordings.)
Helpful Phone Numbers:
Wildlife in need of care...
Agencies and organizations you can call when mother nature needs help.
Wildlife: Animal Control - 361-882-6082
Dolphins: Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network - 1-800-9-MAMMAL
Birds: Rachel Brooks - 361-729-4577, Animal Rehabilitation Keep (ARK - 361-749-6720
Texas State Aquarium - 361-881-1216
Turtles: Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network (Padre Island National Seashore) 361-949-8173
Wildlife: (small) Raccoons, opossums, armadillos, and other reptiles - 361-992-3380
Bird Rehabilitation - 361-852-7008
Local Birding Organizations/Group contacts:
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Contact: 361-790-5937, 361-729-4650 or 361-790-9353 |
Contact: Cynthia Womack or call 361-729-6887 |
Friends of Goose Is. State Park Contact: Betty Stiles |
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Friends of Aransas & Matagorda Island National Wildlife Refuges Contact Ray Little: 361-729-881, Barbara Bruns: 361-575-5505 |
(Click above for Birding Calendar) Contact: Terri Nicolau or call 361-885-6202 |
Coastal Bend Birders Contact: Michael Marsden 361-729-8844 |
More Texas Birding Links:
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El Paso/Trans Pecos Audubon Society |
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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 |
National Birding Resource Links:
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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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