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The Texas Bird Banding Team 1974 - 2007

Friday, February 1st, 2008

BIRDS BANDED ON PERMITS OF ROSS DAWKINS, TERRY MAXWELL & BRENT ORTEGO

1974 through 2007

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Order follows AOU Check-List, 7th ed., 1998, as supplemented:

Species Before 2007 2007 Total
Dendrocygna autumnalis - Black-bellied Whistling Duck 23 1 24
Dendrocygna bicolor - Fulvous Whistling-Duck 3 1 4
Branta canadensis- Canada Goose 300 0 300
Aix sponsa - Wood Duck 23 0 23
Anas strepera - Gadwall 5 1 6
Anas americana - American Wigeon 1 0 1
Anas platyrhynchos - Mallard 31 0 31
Anas rubripes- American Black Duck 4 0 4
Anas fulvigula - Mottled Duck 83 0 83
Anas acuta- Northern Pintail 6 0 6
Anas discors - Blue-winged Teal 39 0 39
Anas cyanoptera - Cinnamon Teal 1 0 1
Anas clypeata - Northern Shoveler 5 0 5
Anas crecca - Green-winged Teal 26 0 26
Aythya Americana - Redhead 4 0 4
Aythya collarus - Ring-necked Duck 4 0 4
Aythya affinis - Lesser Scaup 4 0 4
Bucephala albeola - Bufflehead 3 0 3
Oxyura jamaicensis - Ruddy Duck 1 0 1
Ortalis vetula - Plain Chachalaca 1 0 1
Tympanuchus cupido - Greater Prairie-Chicken 2 0 2
Meleagris gallopavo - Wild Turkey 25 0 25
Colinus virginianus - Northern Bobwhite 8 0 8
Gavia immer - Common Loon 1 0 1
Podilymbus podiceps - Pied-billed Grebe 5 0 5
Podiceps nigricollis - Eared Grebe 2 0 2
Pelecanus accidentalis - Brown Pelican 29 8 37
Anhinga anhinga- Anhinga 24 0 24
Ixobrychus exilis - Least Bittern 16 1 17
Ardea alba - Great Egret 2 0 2
Egretta thula - Snowy Egret 18 0 18
Egretta caerulea - Little Blue Heron 10 1 11
Egretta tricolor - Tricolored Heron 13 0 13
Bubulcus ibis - Cattle Egret 3,115 0 3,115
Butorides virescens - Green Heron 31 0 31
Nycticorax nycticorax - Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 0 1
Nycticorax violaceus - Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 6 1 7
Eudocimus albus - White Ibis 8 0 8
Plegadis chihi - White-faced Ibis 1 0 1
Ajaia ajaja - Roseate Spoonbill 1 0 1
Cathartes aura - Turkey Vulture 1 0 1
Pandion haliaetus - Osprey 1 1 2
Elanoides forficatus -Swallow-tailed Kite 2 0 2
Elanus caeruleus -White-tailed Kite 0 1 1
Ictinia mississippiensis - Mississippi Kite 28 4 32
Haliaeetus leucocephalus - Bald Eagle 1 0 1
Circus cyaneus -Northern Harrier 4 22 26
Accipiter striatus - Sharp-shinned Hawk 113 24 137
Accipiter cooperii - Cooper’s Hawk 64 83 147
Parabuteo unicinctus - Harris’s Hawk 27 1 28
Buteo lineatus - Red-shouldered Hawk 119 30 149
Buteo platypterus - Broad-winged Hawk 5 1 6
Buteo swainsoni - Swainson’s Hawk 31 0 31
Buteo albicaudatus - White-tailed Hawk 13 1 14
Buteo jamaicensis - Red-tailed Hawk 136 31 167
Buteo regalis - Ferruginous Hawk 4 0 4
Aquila chrysaetos - Golden Eagle 2 0 2
Carcara cheriway - Crested Caracara 1 1 2
Falco sparverius - American Kestrel 82 6 88
Falco columbarius - Merlin 2 15 17
Falco peregrinus- Peregrine Falcon 18 18
Coturnicops noveboracensis - Yellow Rail 11 1 12
Laterallus jamaicensis -Black Rail 2 1 3
Rallus longirostris - Clapper Rail 4 0 4
Rallus elegans - King Rail 3 0 3
Rallus limicola - Virginia Rail 1 2 3
Porzana carolina - Sora 26 1 27
Porphyrula martinica - Purple Gallinule 0 1 1
Gallinula chloropus - Common Moorhen 4 1 4
Fulica americana - American Coot 28 1 29
Pluvialis squatarola - Black-bellied Plover 2 0 2
Pluvialis dominica - American Golden-Plover 2 0 2
Charadrius alexandrinus - Snowy Plover 69 0 69
Charadrius wilsonia - Wilson’s Plover 7 0 7
Charadrius semipalmatus - Semipalmated Plover 73 3 76
Charadrius vociferus - Killdeer 195 1 196
Himantopus mexicanus - Black-necked Stilt 54 2 56
Recurvirostra americana - American Avocet 5 0 5
Tringa melanoleuca - Greater Yellowlegs 13 0 13
Tringa flavipes - Lesser Yellowlegs 206 4 210
Tringa solitaria - Solitary Sandpiper 40 1 41
Catoptrophorus semipalmatus - Willet 9 0 9
Actitis macularia - Spotted Sandpiper 157 2 159
Bartramia longicauda - Upland Sandpiper 1 0 1
Limosa fedoa - Marbled Godwit 1 0 1
Arenaria interpres - Ruddy Turnstone 2 0 2
Calidris pusilla - Semipalmated Sandpiper 1,511 50 1,561
Calidris mauri - Western Sandpiper 1,492 4 1,496
Calidris minutilla - Least Sandpiper 3,647 41 3,688
Calidris fuscicollis - White-rumped Sandpiper 214 29 243
Calidris bairdii - Baird’s Sandpiper 40 0 40
Calidris melanotos - Pectoral Sandpiper 293 4 297
Calidris alpina - Dunlin 724 50 774
Calidris himantopus - Stilt Sandpiper 508 6 514
Tryngites subruficollis - Buff-breasted Sandpiper 18 0 18
Limnodromus griseus - Short-billed Dowitcher 9 0 9
Limnodromus scolopaceus - Long-billed Dowitcher 283 3 286
Gallinago gallinago - Wilson’s Snipe 118 0 118
Scolopax minor - American Woodcock 7 0 7
Phalaropus tricolor - Wilson’s Phalarope 51 0 51
Stercorarius pomarinus- Pomarine Jaeger 0 1 1
Larus atricilla - Laughing Gull 13 0 13
Sterna nilotica - Gull-billed Tern 53 0 53
Sterna caspia - Caspian Tern 10 0 10
Sterna forsteri - Forster’s Tern 1 0 1
Rynchops niger - Black Skimmer 638 0 638
Streptopelia decaocto - Eurasian Collared-Dove 41 0 41
Zenaida asiatica - White-winged Dove 2435 372 2,807
Zenaida macroura - Mourning Dove 407 38 445
Columbina inca - Inca Dove 2716 194 2,910
Columbina passerina - Common Ground-Dove 480 65 545
Leptotila verreauxi - White-tipped Dove 35 2 37
Coccyzus americanus - Yellow-billed Cuckoo 181 15 196
Geococcyx californianus - Greater Roadrunner 24 0 24
Crotophaga sulcirostris Groove-billed Ani 3 5 8

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