2021 Texas Big Year Birds

Day by Day new birds

Bold: Texas review species

JAN. 1 (Nueces) Redhead
Black-Necked Stilt
Black-Crowned Night-Heron
Great Blue Heron
Mottled Duck
Snowy Plover
Piping Plover
Blue-Winged Teal
Yellow-Crowned Night-Heron
Brown Pelican
(San Patricio) Osprey
(Aransas) Red-Tailed Hawk
Black-Bellied Whistling-Duck
American Kestrel
Black Vulture
White-Winged Dove
European Starling
Great-Tailed Grackle
Laughing Gull
Belted Kingfisher
Spotted Sandpiper
Double-Crested Cormorant
Herring Gull
Ring-Billed Gull
Ruddy Turnstone
Common Loon
Royal Tern
Northern Mockingbird
Vermilion Flycatcher
Great Egret
Mourning Dove
Northern Cardinal
Carolina Wren
Turkey Vulture
Forster's Tern
Snowy Egret
(Refugio) Crested Caracara
Loggerhead Shrike
Killdeer
Common Grackle
Couch's Kingbird
Eastern Bluebird
Boat-Tailed Grackle
American Robin
Red-Winged Blackbird
Eurasian Collared-Dove
House Sparrow
(Calhoun) Greater Yellowlegs
Savannah Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
White-Tailed Hawk
Tree Swallow
Little Blue Heron
Roseate Spoonbill
White-Faced Ibis
Tricolored Heron
Nelson's Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Rock Pigeon
(Victoria) Red-Shouldered Hawk
Pine Warbler
Tufted Titmouse
Inca Dove
American Crow
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Eastern Phoebe
Red-Headed Woodpecker
Anhinga
Downy Woodpecker
American Goldfinch
Blue-Headed Vireo
Hermit Thrush
Common Yellowthroat
Carolina Chickadee
House Wren
Sandhill Crane
Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
Orange-Crowned Warbler
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Golden-Crowned Kinglet
Yellow-Throated Warbler
Lincoln's Sparrow
Pileated Woodpecker
(Refugio) Cooper's Hawk
Northern Harrier
Gadwall
(Aransas) American White Pelican
Northern Pintail
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Willet
Horned Grebe
American Coot
Common Gallinule
(Refugio) Burrowing Owl
Mountain Bluebird
(Aransas) Whooping Crane
Red-Breasted Merganser
Black Scoter
Sanderling
Neotropic Cormorant
(San Patricio) Golden-Fronted Woodpecker
Reddish Egret
Semipalmated Plover
Long-Billed Curlew
(Nueces) Ladder-Backed Woodpecker
Black-Crested Titmouse
Tropical Kingbird
Harris's Hawk
White Ibis
Caspian Tern
Gray Catbird
Pied-Billed Grebe
Northern Shoveler
Ruddy Duck
Mallard
JAN. 2 (Nueces) Iceland Gull (Thayer's)
(Atascosa) Western Meadowlark
(Frio) Mountain Plover
Chihuahuan Raven
Vepser Sparrow
(Uvalde) Lesser Goldfinch
Allen's Hummingbird
House Finch
Great Kiskadee
Long-Billed Thrasher
Wood Duck
Rufous-Capped Warbler
Cedar Waxwing
JAN. 3 (Brewster) White-Crowned Sparrow
Common Raven
Sharp-Shinned Hawk
Red-Breasted Nuthatch
Cactus Wren
Pyrrhuloxia
Curve-Billed Thrasher
Canyon Towhee
Red Crossbill
Lark Bunting
Say's Phoebe
Dark-Eyed Junco
Rock Wren
(Jeff Davis) Brewer's Blackbird
Pine Siskin
Chipping Sparrow
Rufous-Crowned Sparrow
Bewick's Wren
Verdin
Phainopepla
Townsend's Solitaire
Horned Lark
Chestnut-Collared Longspur
Brewer's Sparrow
White-Breasted Nuthatch
Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay
Bushtit
Acorn Woodpecker
Red-Naped Sapsucker
Western Bluebird
Greater Roadrunner
(Reeves) Snow Goose
Pacific Loon
Eared Grebe
Common Merganser
Canada Goose
American Wigeon
Hooded Merganser
Ross's Goose
Green-Winged Teal
Bonaparte's Gull
Least Sandpiper
Northern Flicker
(Culberson) Black-Throated Sparrow
Ferruginous Hawk
Song Sparrow
JAN. 4 (El Paso) Rufous-Backed Robin
Sagebrush Sparrow
(Culberson) Sage Thrasher
Spotted Towhee
Juniper Titmouse
Cassin's Finch
(Lubbock) Cackling Goose
JAN. 5 (Dallam) Prairie Falcon
Rough-Legged Hawk
American Tree Sparrow
Merlin
Lapland Longspur
McCown's Longspur
Brown-Headed Cowbird
(Lubbock) Eurasian Wigeon
JAN. 6 (Runnels) Lark Sparrow
(McMullen) Spotted Rail
Ring-Necked Duck
Least Grebe
Marsh Wren
Sora
Cinnamon Teal
Canvasback
Green Jay
Long-Tailed Duck
(Live Oak) Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
Green-Tailed Towhee
White-Eyed Vireo
JAN. 7 (Brooks) Black-and-White Warbler
Black-Throated Gray Warbler
Tropical Parula
(Hidalgo) Altamira Oriole
Crimson-Collared Grosbeak
Clay-Colored Thrush
Zone-Tailed Hawk
White-Tipped Dove
Olive Sparrow
Common Pauraque
Elegant Trogon
Black-Chinned Hummingbird
Pacific-Slope Flycatcher
Plain Chachalaca
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
Wilson's Warbler
Black-Throated Green Warbler
Blue Bunting
Dusky-Capped Flycatcher
Buff-Bellied Hummingbird
Green Parakeet
Bronzed Cowbird
JAN. 8 (Hidalgo) Cattle Egret
Common Ground-Dove
Ruddy Ground-Dove
Cassin's Sparrow
Hermit Warbler
Red-Crowned Parrot
Gray Hawk
(Cameron) Northern Rough-Winged Swallow
King Rail
Hammond's Flycatcher
Ringed Kingfisher
Common Black-Hawk
Green Kingfisher
Black Phoebe
Solitary Sandpiper
Anna's Hummingbird
JAN. 9 (Cameron) Green Heron
Black Skimmer
Black-Bellied Plover
Dunlin
Yellow Warbler (Mangrove)
Clapper Rail
Lesser Yellowlegs
Sandwich Tern
White-Tailed Kite
Gull-Billed Tern
(Kenedy) Great Horned Owl
(Nueces) Sprague's Pipit
JAN. 10 (Nueces) Lesser Black-Backed Gull
JAN. 11 (Nueces) American Avocet
Greater Scaup
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
(Brooks) Rose-Throated Becard
(Hidalgo) Monk Parakeet
Yellow-Headed Blackbird
JAN. 12 (Hidalgo) Nashville Warbler
Least Flycatcher
Cave Swallow
(Nueces) Sedge Wren
Short-Eared Owl
JAN. 13 (Nueces) American Bittern
Wilson's Snipe
Aplomado Falcon
Peregrine Falcon
JAN. 14 (Hidalgo) Rufous Hummingbird
Audubon's Oriole
Hooded Oriole
JAN. 15 (Nueces) Short-Billed Dowitcher
Western Sandpiper
Fox Sparrow
Marbled Godwit
American Oystercatcher
JAN. 16 (Nueces) Barn Owl
JAN. 17 (Refugio) Barred Owl
Lesser Nighthawk
(Calhoun) Virginia Rail
Least Bittern
Swamp Sparrow
Surf Scoter
(Refugio) Eastern Screech-Owl
JAN. 18 (Nueces) Long-Billed Dowitcher
JAN. 19 (Chambers) Broad-Billed Hummingbird
Blue Jay
Purple Finch
(Galveston) Fork-Tailed Flycatcher
(Brazoria) Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
American Woodcock
JAN. 20 (Brazoria) Brown Thrasher
White-Throated Sparrow
Henslow's Sparrow
Harris's Sparrow
(Matagorda) Bald Eagle
JAN. 21 (Nueces) Greater White-Fronted Goose
(Jim Wells) Grasshopper Sparrow
JAN. 22 (Hidalgo) Black-Throated Blue Warbler
(Cameron) Lazuli Bunting
Golden-Crowned Warbler
JAN. 24 (Victoria) Calliope Hummingbird
American Pipit
JAN. 25 (Bexar) Mute Swan
Egyptian Goose
(Travis) Rusty Blackbird
JAN. 26 (Dallas) Little Gull
Eastern Towhee
(Rains) Smith's Longspur
JAN. 27 (Smith) Brown-Headed Nuthatch
Hairy Woodpecker
JAN. 29 (Aransas) LeConte's Sparrow
JAN. 31 (Nueces) Brown Booby
FEB. 1 (Jim Wells) Clay-Colored Sparrow
FEB. 2 (Aransas) Field Sparrow
FEB. 5 (Nueces) Ash-Throated Flycatcher
FEB. 8 (Hidalgo) Long-Eared Owl
Purple Martin
Hook-Billed Kite
(Starr) Mexican Duck
Morelet's Seedeater
Northern Bobwhite
FEB. 9 (Starr) Black-Tailed Gnatcatcher
(Hidalgo) Painted Redstart
FEB. 10 (Nueces) Stilt Sandpiper
FEB. 13 (Kleberg) Red Knot
FEB. 14 (Kleberg) Pomarine Jaeger
FEB. 22 (Cameron) Wild Turkey
FEB. 24 (Nueces) Barn Swallow
FEB. 27 (Nueces) Cliff Swallow
MAR. 1 (Swisher) Golden Eagle
MAR. 2 (Cochran) Lesser Prairie-Chicken
(Randall) Evening Grosbeak
Williamson's Sapsucker
Ring-Necked Pheasant
MAR. 3 (Kleberg) Northern Gannet
MAR. 4 (Kleberg) Wilson's Plover
(Nueces) Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher
MAR. 7 (Hidalgo) Broad-Winged Hawk
Great Crested Flycatcher
MAR. 8 (Hidalgo) Indigo Bunting
MAR. 10 (Nueces) Pectoral Sandpiper
Common Tern
Swallow-Tailed Kite
(Aransas) Eastern Whip-Poor-Will
MAR. 16 (Hidalgo) Louisiana Waterthrush
MAR. 17 (Nueces) Semipalmated Sandpiper
American Golden-Plover
MAR. 18 (Nueces) Northern Parula
MAR. 19 (Nueces) Hooded Warbler
Least Tern
MAR. 20 (Nueces) Bank Swallow
MAR. 22 (Colorado) Greater Prairie-Chicken (Attwater's)
(Harris) Scaly-Breasted Munia
Red-Vented Bulbul
(Angelina) Bachman's Sparrow
Red-Cockaded Woodpecker
MAR. 23 (Hardin) Fish Crow
(Jefferson) Glossy Ibis
(Fort Bend) Purple Gallinule
MAR. 28 (Nueces) Upland Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Wood Thrush
MAR. 29 (Hidalgo) Yellow-Faced Grassquit
MAR. 30 (Jim Wells) Bullock's Oriole
(Nueces) Chimney Swift
Worm-Eating Warbler
Swainson's Warbler
Chuck-Will's-Widow
Whimbrel
American Redstart
Orchard Oriole
Franklin's Gull
(Brooks) Summer Tanager
MAR. 31 (Hidalgo) Brown-Crested Flycatcher
Swainson's Hawk
APR. 2 (Nueces) Prothonotary Warbler
Red-Eyed Vireo
Eastern Kingbird
APR. 3 (Nueces) Yellow-Breasted Chat
Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
Blue-Winged Warbler
APR. 5 (Galveston) Great Black-Backed Gull
APR. 6 (Nueces) Scarlet Tanager
Magnificent Frigatebird
APR. 7 (Aransas) Palm Warbler
Sooty Tern
APR. 8 (Nueces) Buff-Breasted Sandpiper
(Cameron) Swainson's Thrush
(Hidalgo) Elf Owl
APR. 9 (Hidalgo) Wilson's Phalarope
Northern Waterthrush
APR. 10 (Starr) Western Kingbird
Red-Billed Pigeon
(Nueces) Ovenbird
Tennessee Warbler
APR. 11 (Nueces) Black Tern
Painted Bunting
Baltimore Oriole
Blue Grosbeak
Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
Kentucky Warbler
APR. 14 (Nueces) Common Nighthawk
(Val Verde) Canyon Wren
Bell's Vireo
Scaled Quail
(Pecos) Western Tanager
(Brewster) Violet-Green Swallow
Cassin's Kingbird
Scott's Oriole
APR. 15 (Brewster) White-Throated Swift
Crissal Thrasher
Lucifer Hummingbird
APR. 16 (Brewster) Mexican Jay
Virginia's Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Grace's Warbler
Blue-Throated Mountain-Gem
Lucy's Warbler
APR. 17 (Brewster) Western Wood-Pewee
Plumbeous Vireo
(Presidio) Gambel's Quail
Red-Necked Phalarope
APR. 18 (Reeves) Western Grebe
Clark's Grebe
APR. 19 (Jeff Davis) Rivoli's Hummingbird
Broad-Tailed Hummingbird
Mountain Chickadee
Black-Headed Grosbeak
Black-Chinned Sparrow
APR. 20 (Kimble) Black-Capped Vireo
Yellow-Throated Vireo
Golden-Cheeked Warbler
APR. 21 (Nueces) Gray-Cheeked Thrush
Acadian Flycatcher
Dickcissel
Black-Billed Cuckoo
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Bay-Breasted Warbler
Veery
APR. 22 (Cameron) Tamaulipas Crow
Cape May Warbler
Philadelphia Vireo
Warbling Vireo
(Nueces) Hudsonian Godwit
White-Rumped Sandpiper
APR. 23 (Nueces) Olive-Sided Flycatcher
Chestnut-Sided Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
APR. 24 (Nueces) Bobolink
Cerulean Warbler
Canada Warbler
APR. 25 (Nueces) Golden-Winged Warbler
APR. 26 (Nueces) Blackpoll Warbler
APR. 27 (Jim Wells) Groove-Billed Ani
(Nueces) Magnolia Warbler
APR. 30 (Nueces) Alder Flycatcher
MAY 1 (Nueces) Willow Flycatcher
Common Poorwill
MAY 3 (Refugio) Mississippi Kite
(Jasper) Prairie Warbler
MAY 4 (Cameron) Flame-Colored Tanager
Yellow-Green Vireo
MAY 5 (Cameron) Black-Whiskered Vireo
Yellow-Bellied Flycatcher
MAY 7 (Brazoria) Black Rail
MAY 10 (Fort Bend) Limpkin
MAY 11 (El Paso) Yellow-Billed Loon
(Jeff Davis) Mexican Whip-Poor-Will
Western Screech-Owl
MAY 12 (Jeff Davis) Montezuma Quail
Gray Flycatcher
Hepatic Tanager
MAY 13 (Brewster) Dusky Flycatcher
Gray Vireo
Varied Bunting
MAY 14 (Brewster) Cordilleran Flycatcher
Colima Warbler
Cassin's Vireo
MAY 18 (Starr) Muscovy Duck
MAY 22 (Cameron) Gray Kingbird
MAY 24 (Kenedy) Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
Botteri's Sparrow
JUN. 5 (Nueces) Parasitic Jaeger
JUN. 10 (Nueces) Masked Booby
Band-Rumped Storm-Petrel
JUN. 19 (Nueces) Bridled Tern
JUN. 27 (Nueces) Leach's Storm-Petrel
JUL. 2 (Nueces) Wood Stork
JUL. 6 (Nueces) Green-Breasted Mango
JUL. 18 (Hidalgo) Mexican Violetear
AUG. 9 (Jeff Davis) Costa's Hummingbird
Steller's Jay
AUG. 11 (Brewster) Hutton's Vireo
Band-Tailed Pigeon
Flammulated Owl
AUG. 19 (Aransas) Sooty Shearwater
AUG. 23 (Aransas) Long-Tailed Jaeger
AUG. 30 (Nueces) Mourning Warbler
SEP. 18 (Nueces) Cory's Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
SEP. 23 (El Paso) Red Phalarope
Sabine's Gull
OCT. 11 (Jefferson) Sulphur-Bellied Flycatcher
OCT. 12 (Cameron) American Flamingo
OCT. 21 (Harris) Greater Pewee

NON-REVIEW SPECIES I STILL HAVE NOT SEEN IN 2021

Tundra Swan
White-Winged Scoter
Red-Throated Loon
Yellow Rail
California Gull
Glaucous Gull
Spotted Owl
Lewis's Woodpecker
Northern Shrike
Pygmy Nuthatch
Red-Faced Warbler
Baird's Sparrow