A Birder's Guide to the Texas Coast (ABA/Lane Birdfinding Guide)

A Birders Guide to the Texas Coast will be indispensable as your field guide to one of the worlds premier birding destinations. The Texas coast is home to an amazing number of migrating and wintering birds as well as many specialty resident and nesting species. The habitat diversity ranges from the Pineywoods to the Gulf prairies from the coastal wetlands to the South Texas subtropics. The spring migration of neotropical birds along the coast is one of North Americas most remarkable birding spectacles. And the region is host to some of the nations largest congregations of herons egrets rails shorebirds gulls and terns at any season. A Birders Guide to the Texas Coast includes Species Accounts for over 170 Texas specialties and more than 70 new sites for a total of over 200 birding stops as well as bar-graphs for 388 regularly occurring Texas Coast species.