Del Rio, pressed up next to Lake Amistad, the Rio Grande, and the Mexican border, has borderland and riverland birds a-plenty. Although some birds are common to Texas as a whole, Del Rio has a number of Mexican birds, such as the Tropical Parula and Rufous-capped Warbler, from time to time. The rare...

El Paso's position between the United States and Mexico, National Park and National Park, and the massive Franklin Mountains State Park allows for some excellent birding. Some of the species you can expect to see any time of the year at all are the Clark's Grebe, the wire-perching Neotropic Cormoran...

Close as Fort Worth is to Dallas, it still has a couple of species that Dallas doesn't, and rare species at that. The Laughing Gull occasionally flies among the Franklin's Gulls. The rare Whimbrel also make appearances. Both of these are spottable at Benbrook Lake.Species like the Tufted Titmouse, t...

Galveston Island may be something of a resort town, but many of its beaches are as wild as they were centuries ago. Many shorebirds and waterfowl make their home here, as with much of coastal Texas, but Galveston has some special populations. Thousands of Black Terns settle themselves on San Luis Pa...

The Montezuma Quail, once eliminated, has recently been reintroduced, and the rare Spotted Owl can be found here. But birding in Guadalupe Mountains National Park is less about the uniqueness or the rarity and more about the sheer diversity. Phainopeplas and Pyrrhuloxias winter here, and do three sp...

Hill Country birds tend to be a mix of Austin and Dallas birds, a little East, a little West, many, many shorebirds and waterfowl. The endangered Black-capped Vireo and Golden-cheeked Warbler can be found here, if, in contrast to Austin and Dallas, the Black-capped Vireo thrives rather better than...

Houston still has a lot of the woodland about it and a lot of the eastern woodland, although this tends to be on the far edge of their range. The American Woodcock, rare on this more northern coast, can show up at Houston Memorial Park and the unique Anhinga can be spotted at the nearby Buckhorn Lak...

Laredo is one of those border-towns settled in bird habitat, but some birds that are difficult to see in other border-towns, or in Texas in general, are relatively common occurrences here. Laredo's specialty is the cane-loving White-collared Seedeater, found especially in La Laja Ranch, but elsewher...

Lubbock has more of a northern birding feel than certain parts of Texas; Dark-eyed Juncos, Fox Sparrows, Ring-billed Gull, and the Cedar Waxwing can be found with some frequency. Also expect Burrowing Owls, the Marsh Wren, the American Kestrel, and the Sharp-shinned and Ferruginous Hawk. Some birds ...

Snow-doffed mountain peaks drop away to reveal dramatic river canyons and solitary mesas in sparsely populated New Mexico, a state known for its arid landscapes but for that, endowed with plenty of forested wilderness and long meandering rivers. New Mexico’s topography and southerly location...