Do you collect bird patches?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 Locations For Special Sightings (In Season) A-1 Hill Rd. Live Oak Point |
Moore’s Pond Anhinga Purple Gallinule Least Grebe Green Heron Old Salt lake Road/Area Cape Velero Water St./ Shell Ridge Rd.
Rockport Beach Park |