CHECKLIST Aransas NWR Checklist - 397 species GREBES Least Grebe Pied-billed Grebe Red-necked Grebe Horned Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe SHEARWATERS AND PETRELS Sooty Shearwater TROPICBIRDS White-tailed Tropicbird FRIGATEBIRDS Magnificent Frigatebird GANNETS AND BOOBIES Northern Gannet Masked Booby Brown Booby CORMORANTS Neotropic Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant ANHINGAS Anhinga PELICANS American White Pelican Brown Pelican DUCKS, SWANS, GEESE Fulvous Whistling-Duck Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Masked Duck Ruddy Duck Tundra Swan Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross's Goose Canada Goose Barnacle Goose Brant Wood Duck American Wigeon Gadwall Green-winged Teal Mallard Mottled Duck American Black Duck Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck Oldsquaw Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Common Merganser HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS Reddish Egret Tricolored Heron Little Blue Heron Snowy Egret Great Blue Heron Great Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Least Bittern American Bittern IBIS AND SPOONBILLS White Ibis White-faced Ibis Roseate Spoonbill STORKS Wood Stork NEW WORLD VULTURES Black Vulture Turkey Vulture OSPREY Osprey HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES Swallow-tailed Kite White-tailed Kite Mississippi Kite Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Harris's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Swainson's Hawk White-tailed Hawk Zone-tailed Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle FALCONS AND CARACARAS Crested Caracara American Kestrel Aplomado Falcon Merlin Prairie Falcon Peregrine Falcon PHEASANTS, GROUSE, QUAIL AND TURKEYS Greater Prairie-Chicken Wild Turkey WOOD-PARTRIDGES Northern Bobwhite RAILS AND COOTS Yellow Rail Black Rail Clapper Rail King Rail Virginia Rail Sora Purple Gallinule Common Moorhen American Coot CRANES Sandhill Crane Whooping Crane SANDPIPERS American Woodcock Common Snipe Hudsonian Godwit Marbled Godwit Whimbrel Long-billed Curlew Upland Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Willet Ruddy Turnstone Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope OYSTERCATCHERS American Oystercatcher AVOCETS AND STILTS Black-necked Stilt American Avocet PLOVERS AND LAPWINGS American Golden-Plover Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Wilson's Plover Killdeer Piping Plover Snowy Plover Mountain Plover GULLS AND TERNS Ring-billed Gull Great Black-backed Gull Herring Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Bonaparte's Gull Laughing Gull Franklin's Gull Little Gull Black Tern Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Royal Tern Sandwich Tern Roseate Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Sooty Tern Least Tern JAEGERS AND SKUAS Pomarine Jaeger SKIMMERS Black Skimmer LOONS Red-throated Loon Common Loon PIGEONS AND DOVES Rock Dove Band-tailed Pigeon Mourning Dove White-winged Dove Inca Dove Common Ground-Dove PARROTS White-winged Parakeet NEW WORLD CUCKOOS Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo ANIS Groove-billed Ani GROUND-CUCKOOS AND ALLIES Greater Roadrunner BARN-OWLS Barn Owl OWLS Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Burrowing Owl Short-eared Owl NIGHTJARS Lesser Nighthawk Common Nighthawk Pauraque Common Poorwill Chuck-will's-widow Whip-poor-will SWIFTS Chimney Swift White-throated Swift HUMMINGBIRDS Buff-bellied Hummingbird Ruby-throated Hummingbird Black-chinned Hummingbird Broad-tailed Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird KINGFISHERS Belted Kingfisher Green Kingfisher WOODPECKERS Red-headed Woodpecker Acorn Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Golden-fronted Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Ladder-backed Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker TYRANT FLYCATCHERS Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Cordilleran Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Say's Phoebe Vermilion Flycatcher Dusky-capped Flycatcher Ash-throated Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher Brown-crested Flycatcher Couch's Kingbird Western Kingbird Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Fork-tailed Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Great Kiskadee CROWS AND JAYS Blue Jay American Crow Chihuahuan Raven VIREOS AND ALLIES Bell's Vireo White-eyed Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Plumbeous Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Warbling Vireo SHRIKES Loggerhead Shrike WAXWINGS AND SILKY-FLYCATCHERS Phainopepla Cedar Waxwing THRUSHES Eastern Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush Clay-colored Robin American Robin MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Sage Thrasher Brown Thrasher Long-billed Thrasher Curve-billed Thrasher STARLINGS European Starling NUTHATCHES Red-breasted Nuthatch CREEPERS Brown Creeper WRENS Cactus Wren Rock Wren Sedge Wren Marsh Wren Bewick's Wren Carolina Wren Winter Wren House Wren GNATCATCHERS Verdin Blue-gray Gnatcatcher SWALLOWS Tree Swallow Purple Martin Galapagos Martin Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow Cave Swallow KINGLETS Ruby-crowned Kinglet Golden-crowned Kinglet CHICKADEES, TITS Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse LARKS Horned Lark OLD WORLD SPARROWS House Sparrow WAGTAILS AND PIPITS American Pipit Sprague's Pipit SISKINS, CROSSBILLS AND ALLIES Pine Siskin American Goldfinch Lesser Goldfinch Purple Finch House Finch NEW WORLD WARBLERS Blue-winged Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Tropical Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend's Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Swainson's Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler MacGillivray's Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Painted Redstart Yellow-breasted Chat BUNTINGS, SPARROWS, TANAGERS, ALLIES Chestnut-collared Longspur Lark Bunting Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Harris's Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Savannah Sparrow Seaside Sparrow Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Le Conte's Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Black-throated Sparrow Botteri's Sparrow Cassin's Sparrow Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee Olive Sparrow Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Western Tanager Northern Stripe-headed Tanager Dickcissel Rose-breasted Grosbeak Black-headed Grosbeak Northern Cardinal Pyrrhuloxia Crimson-collared Grosbeak Blue Bunting Blue Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Indigo Bunting Varied Bunting Painted Bunting BLACKBIRDS, GRACKLES, ORIOLES Baltimore Oriole Bullock's Oriole Orchard Oriole Yellow-headed Blackbird Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Western Meadowlark Great-tailed Grackle Boat-tailed Grackle Common Grackle Rusty Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Bronzed Cowbird Brown-headed Cowbird Bobolink