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June, July
1990
Journal
24
Big Bend National Park, Brewster Co., Texas
June 8 (Coit)
I sought two habitats out today. I explored riparian areas (natural & man-made) in the Chihuahuan Desert foothills and oak woodland/savanna near water on the lower Chisos Mountains, in the Basin Area.
Species list:
Amphibian: green toad
Lepidosauria: crevice spiny lizard
Coter snake
desert spiny lizard
Texas-Large rat snake
checkered whiptail
long-nosed snake
small Crotaphytus sp.
w. diamondbacked rattlesnake
Aves: mallard
red-tailed flycatcher
Turkey vulture
black phoebe
red-tailed hawk
Say's phoebe
scaled quail
vermillion flycatcher
kiskadee
violet-green swallow
white-winged dove
w. rouge-winged swallows
mourning dove
cliff swallow
Maca Dove
Barn swallow
yellow-billed cuckoo
smallish Corvus sp.
great roadrunner
common raven
Lesser nightshade
"black-crested" titmouse
white-throated swifts.
Verdin
Lucifer hummingbird
Bushtit
Black-Anisied hummingbird
White-Mounted wretched.
golden-fronted woodpecker
Berwick's wren
collar-backed woodpecker
Canyon wren
w. kingfisher
Cactus wren