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Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas - Vagrants & Rarities
(For clarification: a "vagrant" is any species that is well out of its expected range and may or may not show up again, whereas a "rarity" is a regularly occurring Texas species that shows up in the LRGV occasionally, or annually in very small numbers.)
Rare Birds & Butterflies of 2024 (includes both "vagrants" and "rarities")
Gray-collared & Rose-throated Becards - Resaca de la Palma State Park (5 JAN 24)
Cattle Tyrant - Corpus Christi (20 & 27 JAN 24)
Crimson-collared Grosbeak - Frontera Audubon Thicket (23 JAN 24)
Limpkin & Crane Hawk - Salineno (30 JAN 24)
Roadside Hawk & Western Tanager - Resaca de la Palma State Park (6 FEB 24)
Fan-tailed Warbler - UTRGV Brownsville (8 FEB 24)
Golden-crowned Warbler - Hugh Ramsey Nature Park (8 FEB 24)
Mountain Plovers - Jara Chinas Road (13 FEB 24)
Rock Wren - Anzalduas County Park (20 FEB 24)
Mallard (yes, really) - Edinburg Scenic Wetlands (12 MAR 24)
Glossy Ibis & Greater Scaup - South Padre Island Convention Centre (19 MAR 24)
Southern Lapwing - Llano Grande Golf Course (14 APR 24)
Cape May Warbler & Lazuli Bunting - South Padre Island (22 APR 24)
Mangrove Cuckoo - South Padre Island (3 MAY 24)
Tailed Cecropian vs. Audubon's Oriole - National Butterfly Center (24 SEP 24)
"Kumlien's" Iceland Gull - Brownsville Landfill (9 NOV 24)
Sabine's Gull - Fred Stone County Park (19 NOV 24)
Prairie Falcon & Say's Phoebe - Jara Chinas Road (13 DEC 24)
American Flamingo - Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center (Port Aransas) - 30 NOV 24