The Edinburg Scenic Wetlands: Wildlife

EWBC Checklists

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Butterflies (pdf 456 KB)
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The Edinburg Scenic Wetlands and World Birding Center has been host to numerous species of birds, butterflies, and dragonflies. To date, the EWBC has seen...

Recent Bird Sightings

12/9/11

51 species

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 45
Wood Duck 2
Gadwall 15
Blue-winged Teal 45
Cinnamon Teal 1
Northern Shoveler 55
Green-winged Teal 73
Lesser Scaup 11
Bufflehead 5
Ruddy Duck 45
Plain Chachalaca 5
Least Grebe 10
Eared Grebe 3
Neotropic Cormorant 79
Double-crested Cormorant 6
American White Pelican 336
Great Blue Heron 14
Great Egret 1
Snowy Egret 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 16
Roseate Spoonbill 1
Turkey Vulture 2
Osprey 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Common Gallinule 6
American Coot 50
Black-necked Stilt 59
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Long-billed Dowitcher 45
Rock Pigeon 1
Inca Dove 4
Rufous Hummingbird 1
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 3
Green Kingfisher 1
Northern Flicker 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Great Kiskadee 5
Couch's Kingbird 5
House Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Clay-colored Thrush 1
Northern Mockingbird 20
Long-billed Thrasher 4
Curve-billed Thrasher 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 15
Wilson's Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 1
Pyrrhuloxia 1
Great-tailed Grackle 5
House Sparrow 10

Recent Butterfly Sightings

7/14/11

6 species

Giant Swallowtail

Large Orange Sulphur

Fatal Metalmark

Queen

Brown Longtail

Laviana White-Skipper