Birds -- Upper Texas Coast, April 2008
|  Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, male
 |  Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, female
 |  Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, male flying
 |  Carolina Wren, male singing
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|  Blue-headed Vireo
 |  Black-throated Green Warbler, male
 |  Kentucky Warbler, male
 |  Summer Tanager, male
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|  Summer Tanager, first spring male with mulberry
 |  Rose-breasted Grosbeak. first-spring male(?)
 |  Great-tailed Grackle, male
 |  Red-bellied Woodpecker, male
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|  Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
 |  Tricolored Heron
 |  Roseate Spoonbill
 |  Roseate Spoonbill
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|  Roseate Spoonbills, pair
 |  White Ibis
 |  Cattle Egret, with rodent
 |  Great Egrets, passing nesting material
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|  Great Egrets, adult feeding young
 |  American Oystercatcher
 |  Ruddy Turnstone, breeding plumage male
 |  Dunlin, partial breeding plumage
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|  Clapper Rail
 |  Neotropic Cormorant
 |  Black Skimmer and friends
 |  Least Tern
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|  Sandwich Tern, with fish
 |  Sandwich Terns
 |  Royal Tern
 |  Forster's Tern, diving for dropped fish
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|  Laughing Gull, flying
 |  Laughing Gull
 |  Greater Yellowlegs, breeding plumage
 |  Red-winged Blackbird, typical female
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