Texas Birding: Elusive Bar-tailed Godwit Expedition

South Texas is known for its rare bird species, which sometimes includes long-range migrants such as Bar-tailed Godwits and far off vagrants such as the Cattle Tyrant. We drove up from the Rio Grande Valley in early February to try to find these two species near Corpus Christi, but ended up with more of a chase than we expected.

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Thanks to Terry Sohl for allowing us to use his range maps
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Bar-tailed Godwit in breeding plumage by Kristine Sowl, USFWS (Public Domain)
Bar-tailed Godwit in cover image by Becky Matsubara (CC by 2.0, edited)
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All other photos and videos by Derek and Ryan Sallmann

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