Earn Your Official Rockport/Fulton Birding Patch!

Do you collect bird patches?

To earn your official Rockport/Fulton Birding Patch, you must find fifteen (15) of the birds listed below during a specified season. Pick up a checklist at the Rockport-Fulton Area Chamber of Commerce, 404 Broadway between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday. There is a $5.00 participation fee. Return your checklist to the Rockport-Fulton Area Chamber of Commerce.

Some Common Birds Found Throughout the Area Most of the Year

Great Blue Heron
Great Egret 
Snowy Egret
Tri-colored Heron
Little Blue Heron
Reddish Egret
Cattle Egret
Roseate Spoonbill
Black Skimmer 
Brown Pelican
White Pelican
American Coot
Double-crested Cormorant
Neotropic Cormorant
Osprey
Long-billed Curlew
Clapper Rail
Green Heron
American Oystercatcher
Laughing Gull
Herring Gull
Ring-billed gull
Willet
Avocets 
WhiteIbis
White-faced Ibis
Royal Tern
Caspian Tern
Least Tern
Sandwich Tern
Sanderling
Ruddy Turnstone
Mottled Duck
Black-crowned Night Heron
Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Spotted Sand Piper
Piping Plover
Wilson’s Plover 
Black-necked Stilt
Killdeer
Ruddy Turnstone
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs 
Morning Dove
Inca Dove
White-winged Dove
Northern Mockingbird 
Northern Cardinal
Tufted Titmouse
Common Pauraque
Carolina Wren
Savannah Sparrow
Red-tailed Hawk
Northern Harrier Hawk
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Greater Roadrunner
White-eyed Vireo
Great Tailed Grackle

Locations for Migratory 
Passerines 

Gooses Island State Park
Big Tree
Newcomb Point
Hwy 1781(Redfish Point)
Port Bay Road
Country Club Road
A-1 Hill Road
Aransas Woods
Connie Hagar Cottage Sanctuary
Downtown Residential Areas
Aransas Wildlife Refuge
Demonstration Garden

Locations For Special Sightings (In Season)
Whooping Crane
Wintering Geese
Spring/fall Passerines
American Bittern
Shore Birds
Wading Birds

A-1 Hill Rd.
Least Grebe
Least Bittern
Cinnamon Teal
Purple Gallinule

Live Oak Point
Oyster Catcher
Least Tern
Common Golden-eye
Red Breasted Merganser
ShoreBirds

Moore’s Pond
Anhinga
Purple Gallinule
Least Grebe
Green Heron

Old Salt lake Road/Area
Vermillion Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
Couch’s Kingbird
Winter sparrows
Spring Passerine Migrants

Cape Velero
Winter Ducks
Year-round Shorebirds
Ospreys
Wading birds
Sparrows
Hawks
Port Bay Rd/ Country Club Rd.
Pyrrhuloxia
Greater Roadrunner
Painted Buntings
Scissor-tailed Flycatchers
Sandhill Cranes
Wintering Geese

Water St./ Shell Ridge Rd.
Winter Ducks
Marbled Godwits
Mergansers (Red-breasted/hooded)
Common golden-eye

Rockport Beach Park
Shorebirds/wading birds
Black Skimmers
Horned Larks
Oyster Catcher
Long-billed Curlew
Colonial Nesting Birds
(Rookery Islands)

 

 

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