2006 GTBC Report

This year marks the first year that the Shrikes competed in the Great Texas Birding Classic. The team finished with an impressive 194 species of birds (and one rattlesnake!), good enough to take 2nd place in the competition. Eagle Optics teamed up with Bird Watcher's Digest to sponsor the team and help raise awarenes and funds for Pronatura Veracruz.

The Shrikes lineup for the 10th Annual GTBC had some new faces: Team Captain Roy J. Rodriguez (TX), Danny Hoehne (TX), Ben "Lifer" Lizdas (WI) and Sean Smith (TX). Welcome, guys! We're all looking forward to another great Big Day next year.

 

 

 
Species Seen - 2006 GTBC
194 Total
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck White-rumped Sandpiper Cliff Swallow
Gadwall Pectoral Sandpiper Cave Swallow
American Wigeon Dunlin Barn Swallow
Mottled Duck Stilt Sandpiper Black-crested Titmouse
Blue-winged Teal Short-billed Dowitcher Verdin
Cinnamon Teal Long-billed Dowitcher Cactus Wren
Northern Shoveler Wilson's Phalarope Carolina Wren
Green-winged Teal Laughing Gull Bewick's Wren
Greater Scaup Franklin's Gull Marsh Wren
Red-breasted Merganser Gull-billed Tern Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Plain Chachalaca Caspian Tern Gray-cheeked Thrush
Least Grebe Royal Tern Swainson's Thrush
Pied-billed Grebe Sandwich Tern Clay-colored Robin
Neotropic Cormorant Forster's Tern Gray Catbird
Double-crested Cormorant Least Tern Northern Mockingbird
Anhinga Black Skimmer Long-billed Thrasher
Great Blue Heron Rock Pigeon Curve-billed Thrasher
Great Egret Red-billed Pigeon European Starling
Snowy Egret Eurasian Collared-Dove Golden-winged Warbler
Little Blue Heron White-winged Dove Tennessee Warbler
Tricolored Heron Mourning Dove Nashville Warbler
Reddish Egret Inca Dove Northern Parula
Cattle Egret Common Ground-Dove Tropical Parula
Green Heron White-tipped Dove Yellow Warbler
Black-crowned Night-Heron Green Parakeet Chestnut-sided Warbler
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-billed Cuckoo Magnolia Warbler
White-faced Ibis Groove-billed Ani Black-throated Green Warbler
Roseate Spoonbill Great Horned Owl Black-and-white Warbler
Black Vulture Lesser Nighthawk American Redstart
Turkey Vulture Common Nighthawk Ovenbird
Osprey Common Pauraque Northern Waterthrush
Mississippi Kite Common Poorwill Mourning Warbler
Sharp-shinned Hawk Chimney Swift MacGillivray's Warbler
Cooper's Hawk Buff-bellied Hummingbird Common Yellowthroat
Gray Hawk Ruby-throated Hummingbird Gray-crowned Yellowthroat
Harris's Hawk Ringed Kingfisher Wilson's Warbler
Swainson's Hawk Green Kingfisher Scarlet Tanager
White-tailed Hawk Golden-fronted Woodpecker Olive Sparrow
Crested Caracara Ladder-backed Woodpecker Cassin's Sparrow
American Kestrel Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet Chipping Sparrow
Aplomado Falcon Eastern Wood-Pewee Clay-colored Sparrow
Peregrine Falcon Willow Flycatcher Lark Sparrow
Clapper Rail Least Flycatcher Black-throated Sparrow
Sora Vermilion Flycatcher Lincoln's Sparrow
Common Moorhen Ash-throated Flycatcher Northern Cardinal
American Coot Brown-crested Flycatcher Pyrrhuloxia
Black-bellied Plover Great Kiskadee Rose-breasted Grosbeak
American Golden-Plover Couch's Kingbird Blue Grosbeak
Snowy Plover Western Kingbird Indigo Bunting
Wilson's Plover Eastern Kingbird Painted Bunting
Semipalmated Plover Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Dickcissel
Piping Plover Loggerhead Shrike Red-winged Blackbird
Killdeer White-eyed Vireo Eastern Meadowlark
American Oystercatcher Blue-headed Vireo Great-tailed Grackle
Black-necked Stilt Warbling Vireo Bronzed Cowbird
American Avocet Philadelphia Vireo Brown-headed Cowbird
Lesser Yellowlegs Green Jay Orchard Oriole
Willet Tamaulipas Crow Hooded Oriole
Spotted Sandpiper Chihuahuan Raven Altamira Oriole
Whimbrel Horned Lark Audubon's Oriole
Long-billed Curlew Purple Martin Baltimore Oriole
Ruddy Turnstone Tree Swallow Bullock's Oriole
Sanderling Violet-green Swallow Lesser Goldfinch
Semipalmated Sandpiper Northern Rough-winged Swallow House Sparrow
Least Sandpiper    

 

 
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