Many people come to Texas to see many of the "valley specialties" that can only be found in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.  The valley runs from the Laguna Atascosa NWR to Brownsville and west to about San Ignacio.  In this region, you will find many tropical species found nowhere else in the United States.  Here is a list of the birds of interest that are regularly found in the valley.  Every year many "accidentals" also occur in the valley, many that have only been found in the United States a few times.

Least Grebe- Resident

Neotropic Cormorant- Resident

Wood Stork- Late Summer

Black-Bellied Whistling-Duck- Resident

Muscovy Duck- Resident

Hook-Billed Kite- Resident

White-Tailed Kite- Resident

Gray Hawk- Resident

Harris's Hawk- Resident

White-Tailed Hawk- Resident

Zone-Tailed Hawk- Winter

Crested Caracara- Resident

Aplomado Falcon- Resident

Purple Gallinule- Summer

Red-Billed Pigeon- Resident, more common in Summer

White-Tipped Dove- Resident

Green Parakeet- Resident

Red-Crowned Parrot- Resident

Greater Roadrunner- Resident

Groove-Billed Ani- Summer, rare in Winter

Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl- Resident

Elf Owl- Summer

Common Pauraque- Resident

Buff-Bellied Hummingbird- Resident

Ringed Kingfisher- Resident

Green Kingfisher- Resident

Golden-Fronted Woodpecker- Resident

Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet- Resident

Black Phoebe- Winter

Vermilion Flycatcher- Winter, rare in Summer

Brown-Crested Flycatcher- Summer

Great Kiskadee- Resident

Tropical Kingbird- Resident

Couch's Kingbird- Resident

Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher- Summer, rare in Winter

Yellow-Green Vireo- Summer

Green Jay- Resident

Brown Jay- Resident

Tamaulipas Crow- Summer

Black-Crested Titmouse- Resident

Cactus Wren- Resident

Clay-Colored Robin- Resident

Long-Billed Thrasher- Resident

Curve-Billed Thrasher- Resident

Tropical Parula- Resident

Black-Throated Gray Warbler- Winter

White-Collared Seedeater- Resident

Olive Sparrow- Resident

Botteri's Sparrow- Summer

Pyrrhuloxia- Resident

Bronzed Cowbird- Summer, rare in Winter

Hooded Oriole- Summer, rare in Winter

Altamira Oriole- Resident

Audubon's Oriole- Resident