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Rio RV Park

Brownsville, Texas

Birding, Bird Watching, Butterflies, and Nature

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Enjoy nature’s best RV Park with birds, butterflies, and native plants. Explore our nature trail hotspots with feeders, birdbaths, and native habitat. Native landscaping with trees, shrubs, vines, and bushes make us a nature friendly hotspot. Tropical berries, flowers, fruit, and habitat invite nature and you to a special experience. Swim in our pool or relax in the spa with banana trees producing flowering fruit. These nectar bearing trees plus colorful hibiscus attract humming birds, butterflies, and orioles to the pool sundeck. Many of the RV Sites, Tenting area, and Rental Units have plants to present nature’s parade.

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The Nature Trail at the park’s Northern edge, depicted in the above two pictures, offers birding all year. The four bird pictures below plus the Couch’s Kingbird were photographed here.

Below: Chachalaca, Mexican pheasant, can be heard almost every day all year with visits to the feeders occasionally. The Hooked-billed Kite, a winter resident 2000;2001, is a rare tropical species treat usually seen in Mexico only. The snails along the ditch bank are it’s favorite meal.

Plain Chachalaca
Image by Lee Zieger

Hook-billed Kite
Image by Lee Zieger

The Yellow-crowned Night-heron is an occasional visitor Fall, Winter, and Spring. The colorful Green Jay can be seen almost daily all-year.

Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Image by Lee Zieger

Green Jay
Image by Lee Zieger

The trees and shrubs at Rio RV Park offer views of many birds from the nature Walk to the North to the Ash and Palms on the Southern edge.

The Couch's Kingbird is a Spring, Summer, and Fall resident. The American Kestrel is primarily a Fall, Winter, and Spring visitor at Rio RV Park

Couch's Kingbird
Image by Lee Zieger

American Kestrel
Image by Lee Zieger

The Scarlet Tanager is a migrant Fall & Spring visiting the fruiting Mulberry trees. The parrot or more likely parakeet due to the 8” height is a regular in Brownsville and an occasional spring visitor at Rio RV Park.

Scarlet Tanager
Image by Lee Zieger

This or other Rose-breasted Grossbeaks have made Rio RV Park their Spring stop on the way north for two years now.

Rose-breasted Grossbeak
Image by Lee Zieger

The birds pictured below are at the pool area. These birds plus more along with many butterflies can be seen while swimming.

The Buff-bellied Hummingbird is a year around resident found only in Deep South Texas. The Hooded Oriole is a Spring and Summer visitor. This photo is of the father feeding the young in their typical nest under a palm frond. Can you tell which of the two fledgling are Cow Birds?

Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Image by Lee Zieger

Hooded Oriole
Image by Lee Zieger

A large grassy field with a do-it-yourself driving range for park guests is also attracts some other species of birds. The photos below were taken on that field.

The Great-blue Heron and Turkey Vulture are year around residents in Brownsville and at or near Rio RV Park.

Great-blue Heron
Image by Lee Zieger

Turkey Vultures
Image by Lee Zieger

Long-billed Curlews are a winter guest at Rio RV Park.

Long-billed Curlews
Image by Lee Zieger

Los Ebanos Preserve
Sabal Palm Audubon Center
Gladys Porter Zoo
Laguna Atascosa USFWS Refuge
Santa Ana NWL Refuge
Go to Places To See page of this website for the nature locations above.

Call us to talk about your Trip!
Rio RV Park
8801 Boca Chica Blvd.
Brownsville, TX 78521
Phone: 956-831-4653 or 800-776-1895
Fax: 956-831-0147