Texas Master Naturalist Program
Cradle of Texas Chapter
Field Trips to Matagorda Island
List of species seen during the 2011 trip
Compiled by Ed Hunter
DUCKS, GEESE, AND WATERFOWL
Fulvous Whistling Duck
Mottled Duck
NEW WORLD QUAIL
Northern Bobwhite
PHEASANTS, GROUSE, AND ALLIES
Wild Turkey
FRIGATEBIRDS
Magnificent Frigatebird
CORMORANTS AND SHAGS
Neotropic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
PELICANS
Brown Pelican
HERONS, EGRETS, AND BITTERNS
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Reddish Egret
Cattle Egret
NEW WORLD VULTURES
Turkey Vulture
HAWKS, EAGLES, AND KITES
Northern Harrier
White-tailed Hawk
FALCONS AND CARACARAS
Crested Caracara
Aplomado Falcon
PLOVERS AND LAPWINGS
Killdeer
OYSTERCATCHERS
American Oystercatcher
STILTS AND AVOCETS
Black-necked Stilt
SANDPIPERS AND ALLIES
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Dunlin
Long-billed Dowitcher
GULLS, TERNS, AND SKIMMERS
Laughing Gull
Franklin's Gull
Herring Gull
Least Tern
Caspian Tern
Sandwich Tern
Black Skimmer
PIGEONS AND DOVES
Mourning Dove
NIGHTJARS AND ALLIES
Common Nighthawk
TYRANT FLYCATCHERS
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
SWALLOWS
Purple Martin
Barn Swallow
Cave Swallow
MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS
Northern Mockingbird
STARLINGS
European Starling
BUNTINGS, SPARROWS AND ALLIES
Seaside Sparrow
CARDINALS AND ALLIES
Painted Bunting
TROUPIALS AND ALLIES
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Great-tailed Grackle
STATISTICS
Species seen – 47
LAND CRITTERS
Speckled King Snake
Longhorn beetle
Jackrabbit
American alligator
White Tail Deer
PLANTS, TREES, AND FLOWERS
Black Mangrove
Mesquite
Red Mangrove shoot
Goose Bean
Palm Nut
"Hamburger Bean"
Jamaican Plum
Jamaican Walnut
Little Bluestem
Fragmites
Prickly Poppy
Texas Verbain
Scarlet Poppy
Prairie Clover
American Snout Bean
SEA CRITTERS
Sea Heart
Ghost Crab
Sargassum
Black Drum
Tiny Blue Crab
Clam (unidentified tiny)
Razor Clam