Apr 4, 2021 – 7:30 am
This is a guided birding trip along the upper Texas coast with Cin-Ty Lee and Mary Ann Beauchemin. For bios of your guides, click here.
Join us for a whole day outing from Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge to the heron rookery at Houston Audubon’s High Island Bird Sanctuary.
This trip will focus on waders and early songbird migrants. We will begin at Anahuac NWR, where we will get to see a wide variety of waders, from spoonbills to tricolored herons to possibly three different species of ibis. If we’re lucky, we may chance upon a King or Virginia Rail in the reeds, while Pied-billed Grebes are yodeling in the background. There will be a variety of waterfowl and early migrating shorebirds to study. Red-winged Blackbirds, Eastern Meadowlarks, swallows, and some of the early warblers will be passing through.
After Anahuac, we will head down to High Island, where will get up close and personal with the herons, egrets and cormorants at the rookery. We will scan the trees for any early songbird migrants, such as orioles, tanagers, buntings and grosbeaks.
Our goal will be to try to see 100 species of birds. Early April provides an ideal baseline to compare the peak of migration, which comes in late April.
Age Range: 16+
Cost: $75 for members, $95 for non-members
Size Limit: 20 people total
Advanced registration is required.
Note: Participants must follow the Harris County COVID protocols that are advised at the time of the field trip, including wearing masks and maintaining safe social distance when possible, etc. You’ll also be asked to bring an NDC COVID screening form with you the day of the event. This form will be emailed to you after registration.
