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Wood Thrush
Mourning Warbler
Dark-eyed Junco
American Robin
Common Yellowthroat
CARDINALIDAE
Mimidae
Hooded Warbler
Northern Cardinal
Gray Catbird
Wilson's Warbler
Rose-breast. Grosb.
Northern Mockingbird
Canada Warbler
Blk-head. Grosbeak
Brown Thrasher
Yellow-breasted Chat
Indigo Bunting
Stur nidae
T HRAUPIDAE
Painted Bunting
European Starling
Summer Tanager
Dickcissel
Motc aillidae
Scarlet Tanager
ICT ERIDAE
American Pipit
Western Tanager
Red-wing. Blackbird
Sprague's Pipit
EMBERIZ IDAE
Eastern Meadowlark
Bomby c illidae
Spotted Towhee
Rusty Blackbird
Cedar Waxwing
Eastern Towhee
Brewer's Blackbird
Par ulidae
Chipping Sparrow
Common Grackle
Blue-winged Warbler
Field Sparrow
Great-tailed Grackle
Gldn-winged Warbler
Vesper Sparrow
Brwn-head. Cowbird
Tennessee Warbler
Savannah Sparrow
Orchard Oriole
Orange-crown Warb.
Grasshop. Sparrow
Bullock's Oriole
Nashville Warbler
Le Conte's Sparrow
Baltimore Oriole
Northern Parula
Fox Sparrow
F RING ILLIDAE
Yellow Warbler
Song Sparrow
Purple Finch
Chestnut-sided Warb.
Lincoln's Sparrow
House Finch
Magnolia Warbler
Swamp Sparrow
Pine Siskin
Ylw-rumped Warbler
Wht-throat. Sparrow
American Goldfinch
Blk-throat Grn. Warb.
Harris's Sparrow
PASSERIDAE
Blackburnian Warb.
Wht-crown. Sparrow
House Sparrow
Ylw-throated Warbler
By: Fred Collins
&
John Berner
Commissioner Steve Radack welcomes you to Bear
Creek Pioneers Park. This checklist is the result of a
cooperative effort between the Houston Audubon Society’s Citizen Science Committee and Precinct 3 park
staff.
Bear Creek Pioneers Park occupies part of Addicks Reservoir, created by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in
the 1940's to prevent a repetition of a disastrous flood
that damaged Houston in 1935. Harris County leased
2,154 acres of the reservoir in 1965 and created the park,
which is named for one of the creeks in the area. The
park and the entire reservoir are subject to flooding, but
most of the land is dry most of the time. The Precinct 3
Parks headquarters is in the park, as is a small zoo, which
includes several Texas owls and hawks.
CLAY ROAD
Palm Warbler
Bay-breast. Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Blk-and-wht. Warbler
BEAR CREEK
GOLF WORLD
American Redstart
Prothonotary Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Swainson's Warbler
Ovenbird
North.Waterthrush
Louis. Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Merlin
Design By: Kendra Kocab
Pine Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Bird Checklist
Of
Bear Creek
Pioneers Park
The park became a favorite birding spot not long after it
opened because the only Acorn Woodpecker ever found
on the Upper Texas Coast was present from January 7
through Feb 24, 1968.
Today the park is known for wintering birds including
Merlin, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Winter Wren, Rusty
Blackbird, Purple Finch and Pine Siskin. The Merlins are
often in the picnic and pavilion areas. Other birds are
often found along N. Golbow Drive in the vicinity of
Langham Creek. A small wooded wetland north of the
intersection of S. Golbow Drive and Fox Lane is a good
place for Rusty Blackbird. This spot is also good for
migrating warblers in spring. Water birds including
egrets, herons, White Ibis and Wood Duck are also found
here. During drier periods the
equestrian and nature trail makes
for a delightful bird walk.
Key:
EQUESTRIAN
& NATURE
TRAIL
Abundant
Common
Rare
*Checklist reflects eBird data through 08/13/09
http://www.pct3.hctx.net/parks/bearcreekpioneers.aspx
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Anatidae
Turkey Vulture
Cuc ulidae
Laniidae
Blk-bell. Whistl. Duck
Ac c ipitr idae
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Loggerhead Shrike
Grt. Wht-front. Goose
Osprey
Black-billed Cuckoo
Vir eonidae
Snow Goose
Swallow-tailed Kite
Str igidae
White-eyed Vireo
Ross's Goose
White-tailed Kite
Great Horned Owl
Bell's Vireo
Cackling Goose
Mississippi Kite
Barred Owl
Yellow-throated Vireo
Wood Duck
Northern Harrier
Capr imulgidae
Blue-headed Vireo
Gadwall
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Common Nighthawk
Warbling Vireo
Mallard
Cooper's Hawk
Chuck-will's-widow
Philadelphia Vireo
Mottled Duck
Red-shoulder. Hawk
Apodidae
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue-winged Teal
Broad-winged Hawk
Chimney Swift
Cor v idae
Northern Shoveler
Swainson's Hawk
T r oc hilidae
Blue Jay
Common Goldeneye
White-tailed Hawk
Ruby-throated Humm.
American Crow
O dontophor idae
Red-tailed Hawk
Rufous Hummingbird
Hir undinidae
Northern Bobwhite
F alc onidae
Alc edinidae
Purple Martin
Podic ipedidae
Crested Caracara
Belted Kingfisher
Tree Swallow
Least Grebe
American Kestrel
Pic idae
N. Rough-wing Swal.
Pied-billed Grebe
Merlin
Red-headed Woodp.
Bank Swallow
Phalac r oc or ac idae
Rallidae
Red-bellied Woodp.
Cliff Swallow
Neotropic Cormorant
Common Moorhen
Ylw-bel. Sapsucker
Barn Swallow
Dbl-crest. Cormorant
American Coot
Red-napd Sapsucker
Par idae
Anhingidae
Char adr iidae
Downy Woodpecker
Carolina Chickadee
Anhinga
Killdeer
Hairy Woodpecker
Tufted Titmouse
Ar deidae
Sc olopac idae
Northern Flicker
Sittidae
Great Blue Heron
Spotted Sandpiper
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-breast. Nuthatch
Great Egret
Solitary Sandpiper
T y r annidae
Cer thiidae
Snowy Egret
Greater Yellowlegs
Olive-sided Flycatch.
Brown Creeper
Little Blue Heron
Lesser Yellowlegs
East. Wood-Pewee
T r oglody tidae
Tricolored Heron
Upland Sandpiper
Ylw-bellied Flycatch.
Carolina Wren
Cattle Egret
Least Sandpiper
Acadian Flycatcher
House Wren
Green Heron
Pectoral Sandpiper
Alder Flycatcher
Winter Wren
Blk-crown. Nt-heron
Wilson's Snipe
Willow Flycatcher
Sedge Wren
Ylw-crown. Nt-heron
American Woodcock
"Traill's" Flycatch. sp.
Regulidae
T hr es k ior nithidae
Lar idae
Least Flycatcher
Gldn-crowned Kinglet
White Ibis
Ring-billed Gull
Empidonax sp.
Ruby-crown. Kinglet
White-faced Ibis
Columbidae
Black Phoebe
Sy lv iidae
Roseate Spoonbill
Rock Pigeon
Eastern Phoebe
Blue-gray Gnatcatch.
Cic oniidae
Euras. Collared-Dove
Vermilion Flycatcher
T ur didae
Wood Stork
White-winged Dove
Grt. Crest. Flycatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Cathar tidae
Mourning Dove
Eastern Kingbird
Swainson's Thrush
Black Vulture
Inca Dove
Scissor-tail. Flycatch.
Hermit Thrush
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