• Aerial View of Padre Island National Seashore

    Padre Island

    National Seashore Texas

Winter/Spring 2010 Bird Sightings

Go on a guided birding tour in the park!

The following list includes sightings made from January 1st through January 2nd:

(1) Brown pelican

(2) White pelican

(3) Snow goose

(4) Redhead

(5) Bufflehead

(6) Turkey vulture

(7) Northern harrier

(8) White-tailed hawk

(9) American kestrel

(10)Aplomado falcon

(11)Black-bellied plover

(12)Killdeer

(13)Long-billed curlew

(14)Greater yellowlegs

(15)Lesser yellowlegs

(16)Willet

(17)Ruddy turnstone

(18)Herring gull

(19)Ring-billed gull

(20)Laughing gulls

(21)Forster's tern

(22)Royal tern

(23)Caspian tern

(24)Great-tailed grackle

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Did You Know?

Beach wheelchairs are available for loan, but must be returned by the Visitor Center's closing time.

Padre Island National Seashore has a wheelchair designed for use on loose sand available for loan at no charge.  Users must leave a driver's license or their personal wheelchair at the information desk while the beach wheelchair is on loan. More...