{"id":1004075,"date":"2011-11-12T16:57:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T21:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1004075"},"modified":"2011-11-21T07:18:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T12:18:48","slug":"796-chihuahuan-raven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2011\/11\/12\/796-chihuahuan-raven\/","title":{"rendered":"#796 Chihuahuan Raven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, I took another leisurely (only six hours) trip south to the border. The attraction this time was access to the Nature Conservancy&#8217;s Southmost Preserve, a site not normally open to the public. This is next door to Sabal Palms and shares a lot of the fauna with that site. However we did get several new species for the trip, mostly as flyovers including Snow Goose, Ross&#8217;s Goose, Greater White-fronted Goose (which I initially mistook as a life bird&#8211;I don&#8217;t know why I never remember that I&#8217;ve seen this one before. I&#8217;ve tallied it as a lifer multiple times in multiple states. Somehow it&#8217;s just really forgettable.) and  #796 Chihuahuan Raven.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Birding-at-the-Border-Fence.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Birding at the Border Fence\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1004082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Birding-at-the-Border-Fence.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Birding-at-the-Border-Fence-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wad the 50mm lens on my camera when the flock flew over (I was practicing digiscoping) so no pictures. Basically it looks like a crow, or a raven; but there are no other crows or ravens around here so a flock of 24 large black birds bigger than Grackles pretty much has to be Chihuahuan Raven, though if one were side-by-side with a Common Raven I&#8217;d be hard-pressed to tell them apart.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Other species at the site included, in taxonomic order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> \tGreater White-fronted Goose \t<\/li>\n<li> \tSnow Goose \t<\/li>\n<li> \tRoss&#8217;s Goose \t<\/li>\n<li> \tGadwall \t<\/li>\n<li> \tMottled Duck \t<\/li>\n<li> \tBlue-winged Teal \t<\/li>\n<li> \tNorthern Shoveler \t<\/li>\n<li> \tNeotropic Cormorant \t<\/li>\n<li> \tDouble-crested Cormorant \t<\/li>\n<li> \tGreat Blue Heron \t<\/li>\n<li> \tSnowy Egret \t<\/li>\n<li> \tBlack-crowned Night-Heron \t<\/li>\n<li> \tRoseate Spoonbill \t<\/li>\n<li> \tTurkey Vulture \t<\/li>\n<li> \tWhite-tailed Kite \t<\/li>\n<li> \tNorthern Harrier \t<\/li>\n<li> \tRed-shouldered Hawk \t<\/li>\n<li> \tRed-tailed Hawk \t<\/li>\n<li> \tAmerican Kestrel \t<\/li>\n<li> \tAmerican Coot \t<\/li>\n<li> \tKilldeer \t<\/li>\n<li> \tBlack-necked Stilt \t<\/li>\n<li> \tAmerican Avocet \t<\/li>\n<li> \tSolitary Sandpiper \t<\/li>\n<li> \tGreater Yellowlegs \t<\/li>\n<li> \tWestern Sandpiper \t<\/li>\n<li> \tLeast Sandpiper \t<\/li>\n<li> \tDunlin \t<\/li>\n<li> \tLong-billed Dowitcher \t<\/li>\n<li> \tWilson&#8217;s Snipe \t<\/li>\n<li> \tForster&#8217;s Tern \t<\/li>\n<li> \tRock Pigeon \t<\/li>\n<li> \tMourning Dove \t<\/li>\n<li> \tInca Dove \t<\/li>\n<li> \tCommon Ground-Dove \t<\/li>\n<li> \tWhite-tipped Dove \t<\/li>\n<li> \tBuff-bellied Hummingbird \t<\/li>\n<li> \tBelted Kingfisher \t<\/li>\n<li> \tGreen Kingfisher \t<\/li>\n<li> \tGolden-fronted Woodpecker \t<\/li>\n<li> \tYellow-bellied Sapsucker \t<\/li>\n<li> \tLadder-backed Woodpecker \t<\/li>\n<li> \tNorthern Flicker \t<\/li>\n<li> \tEastern Phoebe \t<\/li>\n<li> \tGreat Kiskadee \t<\/li>\n<li> \tCouch&#8217;s Kingbird \t<\/li>\n<li> \tGreen Jay \t<\/li>\n<li> \tChihuahuan Raven \t<\/li>\n<li> \tNorthern Rough-winged Swallow \t<\/li>\n<li> \tTree Swallow \t<\/li>\n<li> \tCarolina Wren \t<\/li>\n<li> \tHouse Wren \t<\/li>\n<li> \tBlue-gray Gnatcatcher \t<\/li>\n<li> \tRuby-crowned Kinglet \t<\/li>\n<li> \tEastern Bluebird \t<\/li>\n<li> \tNorthern Mockingbird \t<\/li>\n<li> \tLong-billed Thrasher \t<\/li>\n<li> \tNorthern Waterthrush \t<\/li>\n<li> \tOrange-crowned Warbler \t<\/li>\n<li> \tCommon Yellowthroat \t<\/li>\n<li> \tYellow-rumped Warbler \t<\/li>\n<li> \tWilson&#8217;s Warbler \t<\/li>\n<li> \tClay-colored Sparrow \t<\/li>\n<li> \tField Sparrow \t<\/li>\n<li> \tVesper Sparrow \t<\/li>\n<li> \tLark Sparrow \t<\/li>\n<li> \tSavannah Sparrow \t<\/li>\n<li> \tLincoln&#8217;s Sparrow \t<\/li>\n<li> \tWhite-crowned Sparrow \t<\/li>\n<li> \tSummer Tanager \t<\/li>\n<li> \tNorthern Cardinal \t<\/li>\n<li> \tPyrrhuloxia \t<\/li>\n<li> \tDickcissel \t<\/li>\n<li> \tRed-winged Blackbird \t<\/li>\n<li> \tYellow-headed Blackbird \t<\/li>\n<li> \tGreat-tailed Grackle \t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Besides the Chihuahuan Ravens, 111 of these were state birds for Texas. White-tipped Dove was also an ABA area bird, although I had seen it previously in Panama. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, I took another leisurely (only six hours) trip south to the border. The attraction this time was access to the Nature Conservancy&#8217;s Southmost Preserve, a site not normally open to the public. This is next door to Sabal Palms and shares a lot of the fauna with that site. 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