Bird Watching Hot Spots are for Birders & Photographers at Rio RV Park Brownsville, Texas.

Birder Friendly in a Birding Hot Spot
Rio RV Park
Brownsville, Texas
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Birding, Bird Watching, Butterflies, Photography, Guiding

Rio RV Park offers a Birder Friendly location for birders and photographers. Images, photos, and pictures of birds are below. Enjoy birding hotspots in Brownsville, Padre Island, Harlingen, McAllen, and Mission. Plus bird the areas of Rio Grande Valley, RGV, and Deep South Texas from your Rio RV Park home base.

Many birds unique to Brownsville, Texas are at Rio RV Park near your RV, Tent or a Rental Unit. Birding, Photography, and Butterflying are unsurpassed anywhere in Texas and the United States. Our park Bird List below is exciting. Many photographic nature subjects for photos and images are either on property or nearby.

See the Testimonials for perspectives of others.

Rio Grande Valley Butterfly Map


Red-winged Blackbird by Lee Zieger	Black-bellied Whistling Duck by Lee Zieger
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Bird Trips with Web Pages		Dial-up
April 05	El Cielo, Cd Monte, El Salto
Aug 06	Cd Victoria, Cd Mante, Gomez Farias and El Cielo
Feb 2007	Cd Mante, Gomez Farias, El Cielo, La Florida, El Naciemento, El Naranjo, and El Salto *
Mar 07	Cd Mante, Gomez Farias, El Cielo, La Florida, and El Naciemento *
May 1 2007	Cd Mante, Gomez Farias, El Cielo, La Florida, Boca Toma and El Naciemento *	Dial-up
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Birding, Butterfly, Nature, and Dragonfly Festivals of Deep South Texas and Mexico each year include:

The Rio RV Park owner founded the Brownsville International Birding Festival now held in February.
• Mission Butterfly Festival in October • WILD IN WILLACY BOOTFEST - October • Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival is only 30 minutes away each November • El Cielo Butterfly Festival Mexico - November	• Brownsville International Birding Festival each Feb. • El Cielo Mexico Nature Festival - February • McAllen Nature Festival each April • Weslaco Dragonfly festival each April

Plus, private and public nature from this birding friendly location:
• National Audubon Sabal Palm Sanctuary – 5 miles • Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge (NWL) – 25 miles • Santa Ana National Wildlife – 45 miles • World Birding Center in Mission – 65 miles	• South Padre Island – 25 miles • Boca Chica Beach – 17 miles • Los Ebanos Preserve – 15 miles • Brownsville Parrots & Parakeets – 5 miles • Brownsville Landfill – 4 miles • Rio Grande Valley and Mexico Birding & Photography home base.

Birds are attracted by park feeders from the Tamaulipas Brush in the adjoining ranch and farm land. The birds can be seen from the RV Sites, Tenting area, and Rental Units. Park plants attract hummingbirds, orioles, and butterflies make good photographic subjects. Sunsets and sunrises are also stunning..


Groove-billed Ani by Lee Zieger Located several locations within 10 miles of Rio RV Park	Aplomado Falcon by Lee Zieger Seen regularly less than two mile from Rio RV Park	Crested Caracara by Lee Zieger Spotted at Rio RV Park and other locations within 10 miles

See lots more bird photos from the locations below like the Tamaulipas Crow and others. More Rio Grande Speciality Birds.

National Audubon’s Sabal Palm Sanctuary is 10 minutes away and Boca Chica Beach on the Gulf of Mexico is just 20 minutes. Sabal Palm Sanctuary offers over 3 miles of trails. The trails include a sabal palm forest, native trail, dense brush, grassland, butterfly garden, and Resacas (oxbow) surrounded by brush with varying depths of water for ducks through wading birds. Trails, berms, and boardwalks offer numerous views of the varying habitats. Boca Chica beach offers 8 miles of beach, South Bay, saltwater ponds, and salt flats with lomas. The road to the beach from Rio offers Osprey, Hawks, Kites, and an occasional Aplomado Falcon.

Rio Grande Delta Audubon Chapter

Brownsville International Birding Festival

Sabal Palm Audubon Center and Sanctuary

Bird Specialties of this area only and on park property include:

C=Common S=Summer W=Winter R=Rare X=Accidental O=Occasional M=Migration

· Great Kiskadee C
· Green Jay C
· Couches Kingbird C
· Tropical-kingbird C, S
· Buff-bellied Humming Bird C
· White-tipped Dove C, S
· White-winged
· Inca Doves
· Mourning Doves

· Long-billed Thrasher X
· Olive Sparrow C
· Altamira Oriole C
· Hooded Oriole S
· Plain Chachalaca C
· Common Pauraque C
· Hooked-billed Kite W, R

Bird Photos taken at Rio RV Park

Other Birds seen on park property.

· American Kestrel O
· Crimson-collared Grossbeak X, M
· Great-blue Heron C
· Cattle Egret A
· Snowy Egret O
· Northern Bobwhite C
· Yellow-billed Cuckoo S
· Laughing Gull C
· Brown-crested Flycatcher S
· Northern mockingbird C
· European Starling C
· Loggerhead Shrike C

· Northern Rough-winged Swallow C
· Purple Martin C
· Chihuahuan Raven C
· Turkey Vulture O
· Yellow-crowned Night Heron O
· Golden-fronted Woodpecker C
· Ladder-backed Woodpecker O
· Crested Caracara O
· White-tailed (Black-shouldered) Kite C
· Eastern Screech-Owl C
· Red-winged Blackbird W
· Great-tailed Grackle C
· Black-headed Cowbird W
· Bronzed Cowbird W

Nearby Specialty Birds plus those listed for the park include:

· Grooved-billed Ani C, S
· Green Kingfisher C
· Least Greb C
· Fulvous Whistling-Duck O, S
· Green Parakeet C
· Red-crowned Parrot C
· Cassin’s Sparrow S

· Ringed Kingfisher O
· Botteri’s Sparrow S
· Tamaulipas Crow O
· Tropical Parula O
· Aplomado Falcon O
· Neotropic Cormorant O, S