Big Year 2003 - Review List

Note: In 2003, I submitted reports of all Review-list sightings to the TBRC. Below each species is the TBRC reference number for that sighting and an indication of whether it has been Accepted or not.

Species First Seen County Location

Eurasian Wigeon 10-Jan-03 El Paso Tornillo Reservoir

(TBRC 2003-7 - Accepted)

Yellow-nosed Albatross 26-Sep-03 offshore pelagic out of South Padre

(TBRC 2003-74 - Accepted)

Leach's Storm-Petrel 20-Jun-03 offshore pelagic out of South Padre

(TBRC 2003-55 - Accepted)

Short-tailed Hawk 6-Jul-03 Hidalgo Santa Ana NWR

(TBRC 2003-52 - Accepted)

Surfbird 6-Apr-03 Jefferson along beach, 13 miles west of McFaddin NWR

(TBRC 2003-29 - Accepted)

Purple Sandpiper 3-Jan-03 Brazoria Quintana Jetty

(TBRC 2002-119 - Accepted)

Black-headed Gull 16-Nov-03 Delta Cooper Lake

(TBRC 2004-8 - Accepted)

Mew Gull 26-Nov-03 Hudspeth McNary Reservoir

(TBRC 2003-90 - Accepted)

Thayer's Gull 29-Oct-03 Bell Belton Lake

(TBRC 2003-84 - Accepted)

Slaty-backed Gull 10-Dec-03 Reeves Balmorhea Lake

(TBRC 2003-93 - Accepted)

Great Black-backed Gull 19-Jan-03 Cameron Boca Chica beach

(TBRC 2003-11 - Accepted)

Green Violet-Ear 23-May-03 Blanco Vahn Adams', south of Johnson City

(TBRC 2003-51 - Accepted)

Broad-billed Hummingbird 1-May-03 Jeff Davis Fort Davis - Kelly Bryan's

(TBRC 2003-35 - Accepted)

(seen by many; I didn't submit details - removed from Review list at TBRC meeting on 2 Aug 2003)

White-eared Hummingbird 1-Aug-03 Brewster BBNP - Boot Canyon

(TBRC 2003-57 - Accepted)

Allen's Hummingbird 7-Jan-03 Brazoria Mary Vancil's - West Columbia

(TBRC 2003-20 - Accepted)

Greater Pewee 1-Jan-03 Hidalgo Anzalduas Co. Park

(TBRC 2002-123 - Accepted)

Buff-breasted Flycatcher 2-May-03 Jeff Davis DMP - Road Canyon

(TBRC 2003-49 - Accepted)

Dusky-capped Flycatcher 19-Apr-03 Brewster BBNP - Boot Canyon

(TBRC 2003-32 - Accepted)

Thick-billed Kingbird 22-Dec-03 Matagorda Selkirk Island

(TBRC 2003-97 - Accepted)

Rose-throated Becard 13-Mar-03 Hidalgo Santa Ana NWR

(TBRC 2003-30 - Accepted)

Yellow-green Vireo 29-Jun-03 Hidalgo Santa Ana NWR

(TBRC 2003-56 - Accepted)

Clark's Nutcracker 5-Jan-03 Jeff Davis DMP - Bridge Gap area

(TBRC 2002-127 - Accepted)

Varied Thrush 10-Jan-03 El Paso Hugh Jameson's yard

(TBRC 2003-5 - Accepted)

Blue Mockingbird 1-Jan-03 Hidalgo Allen Williams', Pharr

(TBRC 2002-110 - Accepted)

Red-faced Warbler 9-Aug-03 Brewster BBNP - Boot Canyon

(TBRC 2003-67 - Accepted)

Slate-throated Redstart 13-Mar-03 Hidalgo Allen Williams', Pharr

(TBRC 2003-17 - Accepted)

Golden-crowned Warbler 1-Jan-03 Hidalgo UT Pan American, Edinburg

(TBRC 2002-118 - Accepted)

Baird's Sparrow 20-Dec-03 Presidio Hippo Ranch

(TBRC 2003-98 - Accepted)

- Other (eligible) birds listed on the TBRC Review-list in 2003 -

Brant Wandering Tattler Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher

Trumpeter Swan Eskimo Curlew Piratic Flycatcher

American Black Duck Red-necked Stint Gray Kingbird

White-cheeked Pintail Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Fork-tailed Flycatcher

Garganey Curlew Sandpiper Masked Tityra

King Eider Ruff Black-whiskered Vireo

Harlequin Duck Red Phalarope Yucatan Vireo

Barrow's Goldeneye Long-tailed Jaeger Black-billed Magpie

Masked Duck Little Gull Tamaulipas Crow

**Greater Prairie-Chicken** Heermann's Gull Gray-breasted Martin

Yellow-billed Loon Black-tailed Gull Black-capped Chickadee

Red-necked Grebe Iceland Gull American Dipper

Black-capped Petrel Yellow-footed Gull Northern Wheatear

Stejneger's Petrel Western Gull Orange-billed Nightingale Thrush

White-chinned Petrel Kelp Gull White-throated Robin

Greater Shearwater Elegant Tern Rufous-backed Robin

Sooty Shearwater Roseate Tern Aztec Thrush

Manx Shearwater Arctic Tern Black Catbird

Wilson's Storm-Petrel Brown Noddy Bohemian Waxwing

Red-billed Tropicbird Black Noddy Gray Silky-Flycatcher

Blue-footed Booby Ruddy Ground-Dove Olive Warbler

Brown Booby Ruddy Quail-Dove Connecticut Warbler

Red-footed Booby Mangrove Cuckoo Gray-crowned Yellowthroat

Jabiru Dark-billed Cuckoo Rufous-capped Warbler

Greater Flamingo Snowy Owl Flame-colored Tanager

Snail Kite Northern Pygmy-Owl Yellow-faced Grassquit

Northern Goshawk Mottled Owl Golden-crowned Sparrow

Crane Hawk Stygian Owl Yellow-eyed Junco

Roadside Hawk Northern Saw-whet Owl Snow Bunting

Collared Forest-Falcon White-collared Swift Crimson-collared Grosbeak

**Aplomado Falcon** Green-breasted Mango Blue Bunting

Gyrfalcon Berylline Hummingbird Shiny Cowbird

Paint-billed Crake Violet-crowned Hummingbird Black-vented Oriole

Spotted Rail Costa's Hummingbird Pine Grosbeak

Double-striped Thick-Knee Elegant Trogon White-winged Crossbill

Collared Plover Red-breasted Sapsucker Common Redpoll

Northern Jacana Greenish Elaenia Lawrence's Goldfinch

Spotted Redshank Tufted Flycatcher

**Neither Greater Prairie-Chicken nor Alpomado Falcon were on the official TBRC Review-list in 2003, but I felt that they were indeed in this category for purposes of my big year. Greater Prairie-Chickens are only found at The Nature Conservancy's Texas City Prairie Preserve, side-by-side or perhaps mixed with captively-raised birds. Alpomado Falcons occur in Texas (I saw one in 2003) but are the result of recent re-introduction programs in both the lower Rio Grande Valley and west Texas. In 2003, I would not even try for the chickens and the Aplomado Falcon I encountered clearly had a band on its leg.**

**Additionally, there are three other birds - Passenger Pigeon, Carolina Parakeet, and Ivory-billed Woodpecker - that are on the official TBRC state list that I omitted above as they are clearly extinct or extirpated in the state of Texas.**