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Port O'Connor, Texas


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Birds on Sundown Island


View a short video showing the varieties of colonial water birds that next on Sundown Island. You may also view photos of the birds on Sundown Island taken during the annual census or during mini-visits to this sanctuary.

BREEDING BIRDS

PART TIME RESIDENTS
(Partial List)

  • American White Pelican (w)
  • Magnificent Frigatebird (s)
  • Double-crested Cormorant (w)
  • American Wigeon (w)
  • Mottled Duck (w)
  • Blue-winged Teal (w)
  • Northern Shoveler (w)
  • Green-winged Teal (w)
  • Redhead (w)
  • Lesser Scaup (w)
  • Black-bellied Plover (w)
  • American Avocet (w)
  • Ruddy Turnstone (w)
  • Sanderling (w)
  • Ring-billed Gull (w)
  • Herring Gull (w)
  • Forster's Tern (w)
  • Horned Lark (w)
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler (w)
  • Common Yellowthroat (w)
  • Savannah Sparrow (w)

(w = winter, s = summer)