Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Texas Birds



We have been traveling down the east coast of Texas looking for birds and we are happy to report we have found some. Pictured are two found only in the southern part of Texas and we saw these at the Laguna Atascosa NWR. Atascosa is 88,000 acres of barrier island, salt and freshwater marshes, coastal prairie, savannah and thorn brushes attracting over 400 species of birds. If you are in the area be sure and check it out. The two birds shown are the Green Jay and the Plain Chachalaca. An interesting note to the Green Jay is we saw a mutation form which was blue. He was missing all of his yellow pigmentation. In other words, we saw a Blue-Green Jay.

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