State & Local, Birdwatching 

A Birder's Guide to the Texas Coast is as indispensable as your field guide when you're birding anywhere along the Texas Coast. Exact route instructions in 16 chapters guide the birder along the coast from Beaumont down to the mouth of the Rio Grande near Brownsville. Inland side-trips cover the Big Thicket and numerous birding locations around Houston. Thirty-eight accurate, detailed maps correspond to mile-by-mile directions to the Texas Coast's most significant birding sites. An annotated list of Texas Coast Specialties and combined seasonal and distributional bar-graphs round out the guide's features. Such delightful birds as Whooping Crane and White-tailed Hawk and specialties such as Least Grebe, Groove-billed Ani, Crested Caracara, Red-cackaded Woodpecker, Cave Swallow, and Swainson't Warbler can all be found by following the directions in this book. The author, Harold Holt's, major revision and expansion of the original text written by Jim Lane in 1973 is the fourth volume in the new series of "ABA Birdfinding Guides". - from Amzon