Birds list from Bolivar and High Island


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In alphabetical-order, this is a list of the birds that I was able to see and identify mainly with the help of the other people in the group. This is not an entire list, just the names of the birds that I saw.


  • American Coot
  • American White Pelican
  • Anhinga
  • Barn Swallow
  • Black-legged Kittiwake
  • Black-necked Stilt
  • Blue-winged Teal
  • Boat-tailed Grackle
  • Brown Pelican
  • Cardinal
  • Caspian Tern
  • Cattle Egret
  • Cave Swallow
  • Cliff Swallow
  • Common Snipe
  • Common Tern
  • Double-crested Cormorant
  • Eastern Kingbird
  • Fulvous Whistling Duck
  • Great Egret
  • Great-tailed Grackle
  • Green Heron
  • House Sparrow
  • Laughing Gull
  • Lesser Yellowlegs
  • Little Blue Heron
  • Loggerhead Shrike
  • Neotropic Comorant
  • Northern Shoveler
  • Orchard Oriole
  • Osprey
  • Pied-billed Grebe
  • Prothonotary Warbler
  • Red-winged Blackbird
  • Roseate Spoonbill
  • Royal Tern
  • Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
  • Short-billed Dowitcher
  • Snowy Egret
  • Tree Swallow
  • Whimbrel
  • White Ibis
  • White-eyed Vereo (heard not seen)
  • White-faced Ibis
  • White-tailed Kite
  • White-throated Sparrow (heard not seen)
  • White-winged Dove
  • White Heron
  • Wilson's Plover
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler

American Pelican




Neotropic Cormorant


Roseate Spoonbill


White Heron


Also, Someone pointed out a Red Admiral Butterfly who had his territory staked out in the Privet flowers, on the bank with us, where we spotted the first Anhinga.

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