What is the purpose of this website?

Site Goal – entertain and inform viewers through regional birding on video, and showing birds and other creatures in their habitats around the world. Birders who enjoy improving identification skills will find the site very helpful.

How do I navigate though this website?

Site Structure – The Home Page introduces the website and provides previews of subscriber videos. Subscribers can enjoy the excitement of birds and birding on video with music, narration, and text, plus blogs about behind the scenes shooting of these videos, and information on birding destinations and services.

How often is new content available?

New videos - added weekly, as fast as they arrive; more subscriptions means more new videos.

Who provides this content?

Our Organization’s Objective – provide local patch birding guides with an additional source of income so they can share their passion, support their families, and continue to advocate for birdlife conservation in their region.

I’m a videographer; how can I submit my work?

Criteria for Videographers – knowledgeable and skilled guides from across the globe, from whom we purchase videos shot by them, where they share their regional birdlife through the art of video. There is a portal for videographers to contact us on the Home page to have their work considered for inclusion here.

I would like to support your cause. How can I have access and begin to enjoy your original bird videos?

Subscribe – it's a simple menu driven process. 1. Click subscribe 2. Complete brief form with profile and password 3. Choose a single or family plan ($20 and $25 respectively). All plans give you 12 months of accessibility. 4. Provide credit card 5. Receipt is sent to subscriber’s email 6. Subscribers can access their account at any time after login, to update or change the plan, or renew or cancel

Fly with us...

into the world of birds...

we are birders, like you...

love their sublime beauty, poignant calls, and rich behavior...

watch videos and see photos reflecting their attributes...

enjoy the tingling excitement of birding...

any time right on your screen...

What's New :

4/28/25 - Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival 2024 - Estero Llano Grande BioBlitz 1 & 2

4/26/25 - Rare Birds of 2025: Western Tanager

4/24/25 - Rare Birds of 2025: "Audubon's" Yellow-rumped Warbler

4/21/25 - Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival 2024 - Total Gull Experience 2 & 3

4/14/25 - Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival 2024 - Bahia Grande 2; Total Gull Experience 1

4/12/25 - Updates to the "Less Common but Regular" Moth Pages;; Rare Birds of 2025: Glossy Ibis

4/9/25 - Rare Birds of 2025: Flame-colored Tanager & Palm Warbler

4/7/25 - Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival 2024 - Small Park Smash - Valley Nature Center, & Bahia Grande Part 1

4/2/25 - Update to John Rosford's Moth Page

3/31/25 - Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival 2024 - Small Park Smash - Old Hidalgo Pumphouse & Edinburg Scenic Wetlands

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Our Story.

We are birders too, and like many of our friends we cannot travel to see all the birds on earth. So we bring the images of those birds home to enjoy here.

We founded the world famous Alamo Inn B&B, Gear and Tours in 1999 to serve traveling birders in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. But not everyone travels, and those who travel have down time, so Birders on the Road brings the birds for us to enjoy where we spend most of our time, at home.

We have correspondents around the world recording their local birds to share with us. We seek out local guides, and pay them to shoot and edit videos in their slow times. As new videos arrive every week, we add them to this site.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the purpose of this website?
Site Goal – entertain and inform viewers through regional birding on video, and showing birds and other creatures in their habitats around the world. Birders who enjoy improving identification skills will find the site very helpful.
How do I navigate though this website?
Site Structure – The Home Page introduces the website and provides previews of subscriber videos. Subscribers can enjoy the excitement of birds and birding on video with music, narration, and text, plus blogs about behind the scenes shooting of these videos, and information on birding destinations and services.
How often is new content available?
New videos - added weekly, as fast as they arrive; more subscriptions means more new videos.
Who provides this content?
Our Organization’s Objective – provide local patch birding guides with an additional source of income so they can share their passion, support their families, and continue to advocate for birdlife conservation in their region.
I’m a videographer; how can I submit my work?
Criteria for Videographers – knowledgeable and skilled guides from across the globe, from whom we purchase videos shot by them, where they share their regional birdlife through the art of video. There is a portal for videographers to contact us on the Home page to have their work considered for inclusion here.
I would like to support your cause. How can I have access and begin to enjoy your original bird videos?
Subscribe – it's a simple menu driven process.

1. Click subscribe
2. Complete brief form with profile and password
3. Choose a single or family plan ($20 and $25 respectively). All plans give you 12 months of accessibility.
4. Provide credit card
5. Receipt is sent to subscriber’s email
6. Subscribers can access their account at any time after login, to update or change the plan, or renew or cancel

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Subscribers to our Birders on the Road community, have access on this web site to all our splendid videos and photos as they are released, to explore the world of birds from home. Watch and read travelogue videos and trip reports. Find useful services relevant to birders in our Services section.

If you are interested in sharing your own work or experience, do let us know through our contact form. We are looking forward to making this community as interactive, diverse and inclusive as possible.

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