Birdwatching at La Perla

La Perla Ranch is unique in South Texas because of one reason ... our water resource!  Over 200-acres of lakes and wetlands attract a wide variety of birds throughout the year.

Here is a partial list of the birds seen at La Perla:

Ducks and Geese
  Black-bellied Whistling Duck
  Greater White-fronted Goose
  American Wigeon
  Mallard
  Blue Winged Teal
  Green-winged Teal
  Northern Shoveler
  Northern Pintail
  Canvasback
  Ruddy Duck

Grebes
  Pied Billed Grebe
  Eared Grebe
  Least Grebe

Comorants
  Neotropic Comorant

Herons & Egrets
  Great Blue Heron
  Little Blue Heron
  Green Heron
  Yellow Crowned Night Heron
  Great Egret
  Snowy Egret
  Cattle Egret

Storks
  Wood Stork

Ibises and Spoonbills
  White Faced Ibis

Hawks and Eagles
  Mississippi Kite
  Northern Harrier
  Coopers Hawk
  Harriss Hawk
  Red-tailed Hawk
  Swainsons Hawk
  Lesser Nighthawk

Vultures
  Black Vulture
  Turkey Vulture

Ospreys
  Osprey

Rails, Gallinules and Coots
  Common Gallinule
  American Coot

Falcons
  Crested Caracara
  American Kestrel

Cukoos, Roadrunners and Anis
  Greater Roadrunner

Cranes
  Sandhill Crane

Plovers
  Killdeer

Sandpipers
  Spotted Sandpiper
  Western Sandpiper
  Greater Yellowlegs
  Least Sandpiper
  Long-billed Dowitcher
  Wilson’s Snipe

Quail
  Scaled Quail
  Northern Bobwhite Quail

Pigeons and Doves
  White-winged Dove
  Mourning Dove
  Inca Dove
  Common Ground Dove

Owls
  Great Horned Owl

Kingfishers
  Belted Kingfisher
  Ringed Kingfisher

Tyrant Flycatchers
  Eastern Wood-Pewee
  Alder Flycatcher
  Great Crested Flycatcher
  Black Phoebe
  Eastern Phoebe
  Say’s Phoebe
  Vermilion Flycatcher
  Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
  Great Kiskadee
  Couch's Kingbird
  Eastern Kingbird

Woodpeckers
  Golden-fronted Woodpecker
  Ladder-backed Woodpecker

Shrikes
  Loggerhead Shrike

Vireos
  White-eyed Vireo

Crows, Magpies and Jays
  Green Jay

Wrens
  Cactus Wren

Gnatcatchers
  Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Mockingbirds and Thrashers
  Northern Mockingbird
  Curve-billed Thrasher

Wagtails and Pipits
  American Pipit

Wood Warblers
  Orange-crowned Warbler
  Black-and-white Warbler
  Nashville Warbler
  Mourning Warbler
  American Redstart
  Yellow Warbler
  Wilson’s Warbler
  Common Yellowthroat
  Northern Waterthrush
  Yellow-Breasted Chat

New World Sparrows
  Field Sparrow
  Vesper Sparrow
  Lark Sparrow
  Lark Bunting
  Savannah Sparrow
  Clay-colored Sparrow
  Lark Sparrow
  House Sparrow

Cardinals
  Northern Cardinal
  Blue Grosbeak
  Pyrrhuloxia

Swallows
  Barn Swallow
  Cave Swallow

Blackbirds and Orioles
  Red-winged Blackbird
  Baltimore Oriole
  Western Meadowlark
  Great-tailed Grackle
  Brown-headed Cowbird

Hummingbirds
  Ruby-Throated Hummingbird