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Texas is a large state made up of many diverse habitats including the Northern Staked plains, South Texas plains, hill country and oak prairie, the arid Trans Pecos, the pinewoods and big thicket, the South Texas brush country and coastal habitats and an array of wetlands from freshwater swamps, marshes and lakes to saltwater swamps.

Texas Forests
Texas has several forest types. The Pineywoods is a temperate, coniferous forest made up mainly of pine species – like loblolly, short and longleaf pines – but also includes some deciduous species like hickory, oak, southern sugar maple, sweetgum, and flowering dogwood. To the south, it meets with a wetter coastal forest called the Big Thicket. Texas also has riparian forests. This means the forests border rivers and streams and are tolerant of "wet feet" during flooding.

Wetlands
Texas marshes border lakes, rivers, and streams and have what are called emergent plants – plants, like grasses and sedges - that grow right out of the water. Marshes are very important wetlands providing habitat for animals but also protecting the land during floods by absorbing and filtering polluted runoff.

Deepwater swamps have standing freshwater most or all of the year with trees growing right out of the water – often baldcypress trees.

Saltwater marshes border the coast. The animals and plants in these marshes must be able to tolerate changing water levels with the tide as well as changing salinity, silt and storm surges. They are important for protecting the coast from flooding and for filtering pollutants.

Grasslands
The west Texas panhandle is made up of the high, arid Trans Pecos and Staked Plains. They are covered by shortgrass prairie and scrub oak shinnery – a dense growth of small trees. This dry grassland rises into one of the largest tabletop mesas in North America. Though dry, the region is home to many species of animals including pronghorn antelopes, coyotes, black-tailed prairie dogs, Texas horned lizards, prairie rattlesnakes, lesser prairie chickens, roadrunners, burrowing owls, ferruginous and Harris hawks, and curlews. This semi-desert grassland is covered in short to midgrass prairie and low shrubs, like creosote, acacia, mesquite, and cacti. There are also small trees, like scrub oak and pinyon-juniper.

The plains habitat of the Texas panhandle – as well as most of the grassland and prairie habitats throughout Texas – were originally made up of tallgrass and midgrass prairie communities with small scatterings of oak (or other trees) kept open by fires and grazing bison. They have all been changed from their original state though by more than a century of over-grazing, farming and the elimination of the prairie dog which slowly changed these habitats to drier scrubland with shortgrass prairie understory.

Much of the native grassland habitats have been altered over time by farming, grazing and human development, but areas of preservation throughout the state can illustrate what the habitats of the past were like.

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Coloring the Animals of this State

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Labeling the Animals of this State

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List of Mammals for this State

Land Mammals

antelope (pronghorn)
armadillo (nine-banded)
badger
barbary sheep
bat (big brown)
bat (big free-tailed)
bat (Brazilian free-tailed)
bat (California)
bat (cave)
bat (eastern pipistrelle)
bat (eastern red)
bat (evening)
bat (fringed)
bat (hairy-legged vampire)
bat (hoary)
bat (little brown)
bat (long-legged)
bat (Mexican long-nosed)
bat (Mexican long-tongued)
bat (northern)
bat (northern yellow)
bat (pallid)
bat (pocketed free-tailed)
bat (Rafineque's big-eared)
bat (seminole)
bat (silver-haired)
bat (southeastern)
bat (southern yellow)
bat (spotted)
bat (Townsend's big-eared)
bat (western mastiff)
bat (western pipistrelle)
bat (western red)
bat (western small-footed)
bat (Yuma)
bear (black)
beaver (American)
blackbuck
bobcat
chipmunk (gray-footed)
cotton rat (hispid)
cotton rat (tawny-bellied)
cotton rat (yellow-nosed)
coati (white-nosed)
coyote 
deer (axis)
deer (fallow)
deer (mule)
deer (Sika)
deer (white-tailed)
elk
ferret (black-footed)
fox (gray)
fox (kit)
fox (red)
fox (swift)
ground squirrel (Mexican)
ground squirrel (thirteen-lined)
ground squirrel (spotted)
jackrabbit (black-tailed)
jaguar
jaguarundi
kangaroo rat (banner-tailed)
kangaroo rat (Ord's)
kangaroo rat (Gulf Coast)
kangaroo rat (Merriam's)
kangaroo rat (Texas)
margay
mink
mouse (brush)
mouse (cactus)
mouse (cotton)
mouse (eastern harvest)
mouse (fulvous harvest)
mouse (deer)
mouse (golden)
mouse (Mearn's grasshopper)
mouse (northern grasshopper)
mouse (northern pygmy)
mouse (northern rock)
mouse (pinon)
mouse (plains harvest)
mouse (Texas)
mouse (western harvest)
mouse (white-ankled)
mouse (white-footed)
mountain sheep
mountain lion
muskrat
nutria
ocelot
opossum (Virginia)
otter (river)
peccary (collared)
pig (feral)
pocket gopher (Attwater's)
pocket gopher (Baird's)
pocket gopher (Botta's)
pocket gopher (desert)
pocket gopher (Llano)
pocket gopher (Jones')
pocket gopher (plains)
pocket gopher (Texas)
pocket gopher (yellow-faced)
pocket mouse (desert)
pocket mouse (hispid)
pocket mouse (Merriam's)
pocket mouse (Mexican spiny)
pocket mouse (Nelson's)
pocket mouse (plains)
pocket mouse (rock)
pocket mouse (silky)
porcupine
prairie dog (black-tailed)
rabbit (eastern cottontail)

rabbit (desert cottontail)
rabbit (swamp)
raccoon
rat (Norway)
rat (roof)
rice rat (Coues')
rice rat (marsh)
ringtail
shrew (desert)
shrew Elliot's)
shrew (least)
shrew (southern short-tailed)
skunk (common hog-nosed)
skunk (eastern hog-nosed)
skunk (eastern spotted)
skunk (hooded)
skunk (striped)
skunk (western spotted)
squirrel (eastern flying squirrel)
squirrel (eastern fox)
squirrel (eastern gray)
squirrel (rock)
squirrel (Texas antelope)
vole (Mexican)
vole (prairie)
vole (woodland)
weasel (long-tailed)
wolf (red)
woodrat (eastern)
woodrat (Mexican)
woodrat (southern plains)
woodrat (white-throated)

Sea Mammals (off the coast):
dolphin (Atlantic spotted)
dolphin (bottlenose)
dolphin (Clymene)
dolphin (common)
dolphin (Pantropical spotted)
dolphin (Risso's)
dolphin (spinner)
dolphin (stripped)
manatee (West Indian)
seal (Caribbean monk)
whale (blue)
whale (Bryde's)
whale (false killer)
whale (fin)
whale (humpback)
whale (killer)
whale (melon-headed)
whale (minke)
whale (northern right)
whale (pygmy killer)
whale (short-finned pilot)

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Coloring Mammals of this State

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Labeling Mammals of this State

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List of Amphibians & Reptiles for This State

Amphibians
bullfrog (American)
frog (barking)
frog (cliff chirping)
frog (crawfish)
frog (green)
frog (greenhouse)
frog (northern cricket)
frog (pickerel)
frog (pig)
frog (Plains leopard)
frog (Rio Grande chirping)
frog (Rio Grande leopard)
frog (sheep)
frog (spotted chorus)
frog (southeastern chorus)
frog (southern leopard)
newt (black-spotted)
newt (eastern)
salamander (Barton Springs)
frog (white-lipped)
salamander (Austin blind)
salamander (Blanco blind)
salamander (Cascade Caverns)
salamander (Comal blind)
salamander (dwarf)
salamander (Georgetown)
salamander (Jollyville Plateau)
salamander (marbled)
salamander (mole)
salamander (Salado)
salamander (San Marcos)
salamander (small-mouthed)
salamander (spotted)
salamander (southern dusky)
salamander (southern red-backed)
salamander (Texas)
salamander (Texas-blind)
salamander (three-lined)
salamander (tiger)
salamander (Valdina Farms)
salamander (western slimy)
siren (lesser)
spadefoot (Couch's)
spadefoot (Hurter's)
spadefoot (Plains)
spadefoot (Mexican)
spring peeper
toad (American)
toad (cane)
toad (eastern narrow-mouthed)
toad (East Texas)
toad (Great Plains)
toad (Great Plains narrow-mouthed)
toad (green)
toad (Gulf Coast)
toad (Houston)
toad (Mexican burrowing)
toad (red-spotted)
toad (Texas)
toad (Woodhouse's)
treefrog (canyon)
treefrog (Cope's gray)
treefrog (gray)
treefrog (green)
treefrog (Mexican)
treefrog (squirrel)
waterdog (Gulf Coast)

Reptiles
alligator (American)
anole (brown)
anole (green)
cooter (Rio Grande)
cooter (river)
cooter (Texas river)
gecko (common house)
gecko (Indio-Pacific)
gecko (Mediterranean house)
gecko (reticulate banded)
gecko (rogh-tailed)
gecko (Texas banded)
iguana (westernn spinytail)
lizard (blue spiny)
lizard (canyon)
lizard (common lesser earless)
lizard (common side-blotched)
lizard (crevice spiny)
lizard (desert spiny)
lizard (dunes sagebrush)
lizard (eastern collared)
lizard (graphic spiny)
lizard (greater earless)
lizard (greater short-horned)
lizard (keeled earless)
lizard (long-nosed leopard)
lizard (ornate tree)
lizard (prairie)
lizard (reticulate collared)
lizard (rose-bellied)
lizard (rough-tailed horned)
lizard (slender glass)
lizard (spot-tailed earless)
lizard (Texas alligator)
lizard (Texas horned)
lizard (Texas spiny)
rattlesnake (black-tailed)
rattlesnake (mojave)
rattlesnake (prairie)
rattlesnake (pygmy)
rattlesnake (rock)
rattlesnake (timber)
rattlesnake (western diamondback)
sea turtle (Atlantic Hawksbill)
sea turtle (green)
sea turtle (Kemp's Ridley)
sea turtle (leatherback)
sea turtle (loggerhead)
skink (coal)
skink (common five-lined)
skink (four-lined)
skink (Great Plains)
skink (little brown)
skink (many-lined)
skink (prairie)
snake (Baird's ratsnake)
snake (Big Bend patch-nosed)
snake (black-necked garter)
snake (Brahminy blind)
snake (Brazos River watersnake)
snake (cat-eyed)
snake (checkered garter)
snake (Chihuahuan hook-nosed)
snake (Chihuahuan lyresnake)
snake (Chihuahuan night)
snake (coachwhip)
snake (common garter)
snake (common kingsnake)
snake (Concho watersnake)
snake (copperhead)
snake (cornsnake)
snake (cottonmouth) or water moccasin
snake (diamond-backed watersnake)
snake (DeKay's brownsnake)
snake (eastern patch-nosed)
snake (eastern racer)
snake (eastern ratsnake)
snake (flat-headed)
snake (glossy)
snake (glossy crayfish)
snake (gophersnake)
snake (Graham's crayfish)
snake (gray-banded kingsnake)
snake (Great Plains ratsnake)
snake (groundsnake)
snake (lined)
snake (long-nosed)
snake (Louisiana pinesnake)
snake (massasauga)
snake (milk)
snake (Mexican black-headed snake)
snake (Mexican hog-nosed)
snake (Mississippi green water)
snake (New Mexico threadsnake)
snake (northern watersnake)
snake (plainbelly water)
snake (plains black-headed)
snake (plains garter)
snake (plains hog-nosed)
snake (plains threadsnake)
snake (prairie kingsnake)
snake (redbellied brownsnake)
snake (redbellied mud)
snake (regal black-striped)
snake (ring-necked)
snake (rough earth)
snake (rough greensnake)
snake (saltmarsh)
snake (scarlet)
snake (Schott's whipsnake)
snake (Smith's black-headed)
snake (smooth greensnake
snake (southern water)
snake (speckled racer)
snake (striped whipsnake)
snake (Tamaulipan hook-nosed)
snake (Texas coralsnake)
snake (Trans-Pecos rat)
snake (western indigo)
snake (western ribbon)
snake (western threadsnake)
snake (western worm)
terrapin (diamondback)
tortoise (Texas)
turtle (Alligator snapping)
turtle (Big Bend slider)
turtle (Cagle's map)
turtle (chicken)
turtle (eastern box)
turtle (eastern mud)
turtle (Mississippi map)
turtle (ornate box)
turtle (Ouachita map)
turtle (painted)
turtle (pond slider)
turtle (razor-backed musk)
turtle (rough-footed mud)
turtle (smooth softshell)
turtle (snapping)
turtle (spiny softshell)
turtle (stinkpot)
turtle (Texas map)
turtle (yellow mud)
whiptail (Chihuahuan spotted)
whiptail (common checkered whiptail)
whiptail (eastern spotted)
whiptail (desert grassland whiptail)
whiptail (gray checkered whiptail)
whiptail (Laredo striped)
whiptail (little striped)
whiptail (marbled)
whiptail (Mexico Plateau spotted)
whiptail (New Mexico)

Coloring Amphibians & Reptiles of this State

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Labeling Amphibians & Reptiles of this State

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Bird List for This State

avocet (American)
albatross (yellow-nosed)
anhinga
ani (groove-billed)
antshrike (barred)
becard (rose-throated)
bittern (American)
bittern (least)
blackbird (Brewer's)
blackbird (red-winged)
blackbird (rusty)
blackbird (yellow-headed)
bluebird (eastern)
bluebird (mountain)
bluebird (western)
bobolink
bobwhite (northern)
booby (brown)
booby (blue-footed)
booby (masked)
booby (red-footed)
bunting (blue)
bunting (indigo)
bunting (lark)
bunting (lazuli)
bunting (painted)
bunting (snow)
bunting (varied)
bushtit
caracara (crested)
cardinal (northern)
catbird (black)
catbird (gray)
chachalaca (plain)
chat (yellow-breasted)
chickadee (black-capped)
chickadee (Carolina)
chickadee (mountain)
chuck-will's-widow
coot (American)
cormorant (double-crested)
cormorant (neotropic)
cowbird (bronzed)
cowbird (brown-headed)
cowbird (shiny)
crake (paint-billed)
crane (sandhill)
crane (whooping)
creeper (brown)
crossbill (red)
crow (American)
crow (fish)
crow (Tamaulipas)
cuckoo (black-billed)
cuckoo (dark-billed)
cuckoo (mangrove)
cuckoo (yellow-billed)
curlew (long-billed)
dickcissel
dipper (American)
dove (inca)
dove (mourning)
dove (ruddy ground)
dove (ruddy quail)
dove (white-winged)
dowitcher (long-billed)
dowitcher (short-billed)
duck (black)
duck (canvasback)
duck (Barrow's goldeneye)
duck (black-bellied whistling)
duck (bufflehead)
duck (common eider)
duck (common goldeneye)
duck (fulvous whistling)
duck (gadwall)
duck (garganey)
duck (greater scaup)
duck (harlequin)
duck (king eider)
duck (lesser scaup)
duck (long-tailed)
duck (mallard)
duck (masked)
duck (mottled)
duck (Muscovy)
duck (northern pintail)
duck (northern shoveler)
duck (redhead)
duck (ruddy)
duck (surf scoter)
duck (white-cheeked pintail)
duck (widgeon)
duck (wood)
dunlin
eagle (bald)
eagle (golden)
egret (cattle)
egret (great)
egret (snowy)
elaenia (greenish)
elaenia (white-crested)
falcon (Aplomado)
falcon (collared forest)
falcon (peregrine)
falcon (prairie)
finch (house)
finch (purple)
flamingo (American)
flicker (northern)
flycatcher (Acadian)
flycatcher (alder)
flycatcher (ash-throated)
flycatcher (brown-crested)
flycatcher (buff-breasted)
flycatcher (Cordilleran)
flycatcher (dusky)
flycatcher (dusky-capped)
flycatcher (fork-tailed)
flycatcher (gray)
flycatcher (gray silky)
flycatcher (great-crested)
flycatcher (Hammond's)
flycatcher (least)
flycatcher (olive-sided)
flycatcher (piratic)
flycatcher (scissor-tailed)
flycatcher (social)
flycatcher (sulfur-bellied)
flycatcher (tufted)
flycatcher (vermillion)
flycatcher (willow)
flycatcher (yellow-bellied)
frigatebird (magnificent)
gallinule (common)
gallinule (purple)
gannet (northern)
godwit (Hudsonian)
godwit (marbled)
goldfinch (American)
goldfinch (Lawrence's)
goldfinch (lesser)
goose (brant)
goose (cackling)
goose (Canada)
goshawk (northern)
grackle (boat-tailed)
grackle (common)
grackle (great-tailed)
grassquit (yellow-faced)
grèbe (Clark's)
grèbe (eared)
grèbe (horned)
grebe (least)
grèbe (pied-billed)
grèbe (red-necked)
grèbe (western)
gnatcatcher (black-tailed)
gnatcatcher (blue-gray)
grosbeak (black-headed)
grosbeak (blue)
grosbeak (evening)
grosbeak (pine)
grosbeak (rose-breasted)
grouse (ruffed)
gull (Bonaparte’s)
gull (black-headed)
gull (black-tailed)
gull (California)
gull (Franklin's)
gull (glaucous)
gull (glaucous-winged)
gull (great black-backed)
gull (Heermann's)
gull (herring)
gull (Iceland)
gull (kelp)
gull (laughing)
gull (little)
gull (mew)
gull (ring-billed)
gull (Sabine's)
gull (Slaty-backed)
gull (Thayer's)
gull (western)
gull (yellow-legged)
gyrfalcon
harrier (northern)
hawk (broad-winged)
hawk (Cooper's)
hawk (common black)
hawk (crane)
hawk (ferriginous)
hawk (gray)
hawk (Harris's)
hawk (red-shouldered)
hawk (red-tailed)
hawk (roadside)
hawk (rough-legged)
hawk (sharp-shinned)
hawk (short-tailed)
hawk (Swainson's)
hawk (white-tailed)
hawk (zone-tailed)
heron (bare-throated tiger)
heron (great blue)
heron (green)
heron (little blue)
heron (tri-colored)
heron (black-crowned night)
heron (yellow-crowned night)
horned lark
hummingbird (Allen's)
hummingbird (Anna's)
hummingbird (berylline)
hummingbird (black-chinned)
hummingbird (blue-throated)
hummingbird (broad-billed)
hummingbird (broad-tailed)
hummingbird (buff-bellied)
hummingbird (calliope)
hummingbird (Costa's)
hummingbird (green-breasted mango)
hummingbird (green violetear)
hummingbird (Lucifer)
hummingbird (magnificent)
hummingbird (ruby-throated)
hummingbird (rufous)
hummingbird (violet-crowned)
ibis (glossy)
ibis (white)
ibis (white-faced)
jabiru
jacana
jaeger (long-tailed)
jaeger (parastic)
jaeger (pomarine)
jay (blue)
jay (brown)
jay (green)
jay (Mexican)
jay (pinyon)
jay (Stellar's)
jay (western scrub)
kestrel (American)
killdeer
kingbird (Cassin's)
kingbird (eastern)
kingbird (gray)
kingbird (thick-billed)
kingbird (tropical)
kingbird (western)
kingfisher (Amazon)
kingfisher (belted)
kingfisher (green)
kingfisher (ringed)
kinglet (golden-crowned)
kinglet (ruby-crowned)
kiskadee (great)
kite (hook-billed)
kite (Mississippi)
kite (snail)
kite (swallow-tailed)
kite (white-tailed)
kittiwake (black-legged)
longspur (chestnut-collared)
longspur (Lapland)
longspur (McCown's)
longspur (Smith's)
loon (common)
loon (Pacific)
loon (red-throated)
loon (yellow-billed)
magpie (black-billed)
martin (purple)
merganser (common)
merganser (hooded)
merganser (red-breasted)
merlin
mockingbird (blue)
mockingbird (northern)
noddy (black)
noddy (brown)
nighthawk (common)

nighthawk (lesser)
nightingale-thrush (black-headed)
nightingale-thrush (orange-billed)
nutcracker Clark's)
nuthatch (brown-headed)
nuthatch (pygmy)
nuthatch (red-breasted)
nuthatch (white-breasted)
oriole (Altamira)
oriole (Audubon's)
oriole (Baltimore)
oriole (Bullock's)
oriole (hooded)
oriole (orchard)
oriole (Scott's)
osprey
ovenbird
owl (barn)
owl (barred)
owl (burrowing)
owl (elf)
owl (great horned)
owl (eastern screech)
owl (ferruginous pygmy)
owl (mottled)
owl (long-eared)
owl (northern pygmy)
owl (northern saw-whet)
owl (short-eared)
owl (snowy)
owl (spotted)
owl (Stygian)
owl (western screech)
oystercatcher (American)
parakeet (green)
parakeet (red-crowned)
parula (common)
parula (northern)
parula (tropical)
pelican (American white)
pelican (brown)
petrel (band-rumped storm)
petrel (black-capped)
petrel (Leach's storm)
petrel (Stejneger's)
petrel (white-chinned)
phalarope (red)
phalarope (red-necked)
phalarope (Wilson's)
phainopepla
pheasant (ring-necked)
phoebe (eastern)
phoebe (Say's)
pigeon (band-tailed)
pigeon (red-billed)
pigeon (rock)
pine siskin
pipit (American)
pipit (Sprague's)
plover (American golden)
plover (black-bellied)
plover (collared)
plover (mountain)
plover (Pacific golden)
plover (piping)
plover (semipalmated)
plover (snowy)
plover (Wilson's)
poorwill (common)
prairie chicken (greater)
prairie chicken (lesser)
quail (gambel's)
quail (scaled)
quail (Montezuma)
rail (black)
rail (clapper)
rail (king)
rail (spotted)
rail (Virginia)
rail (yellow)
raven (Chihuahuan)
raven (common)
red knot
redshank (spotted)
redstart (painted)
redstart (slate-throated)
roadrunner (greater)
robin (American)
ruddy turnstone
ruff
sanderling
sandpiper (Baird's)
sandpiper (curlew)
sandpiper (least)
sandpiper (pectoral)
sandpiper (purple)
sandpiper (semipalmated)
sandpiper (sharp-tailed)
sandpiper (solitary)
sandpiper (spotted)
sandpiper (stilt)
sandpiper (upland)
sandpiper (western)
sandpiper (white-rumped)
sapsucker (red-breasted)
sapsucker (red-naped)
sapsucker (yellow-bellied)
seedeater (white-collared)
Shearwater (Audubon's)
Shearwater (great)
Shearwater (manx
Shearwater (sooty)
shrike (loggerhead)
shrike (northern)
skimmer (black)
skua (south polar)
solitaire (Townsend's)
sora
snipe  (Wilson's)
sparrow (American tree)
sparrow (Bachman's)
sparrow (black-throated)
sparrow (Brewer's)
sparrow (chipping)
sparrow (clay-colored)
sparrow (field)
sparrow (fox)
sparrow (golden-crowned)
sparrow (grasshopper)
sparrow (green-tailed)
sparrow (Harris's)
sparrow (Henslow's)
sparrow (house)
sparrow (lark)
sparrow (Le Conte's)
sparrow (Lincoln's)
sparrow (Nelson's)
sparrow (olive)
sparrow (sage)
sparrow (Savannah)
sparrow (seaside)
sparrow (song)
sparrow (swamp)
sparrow (vesper)
sparrow (white-crowned)
sparrow (white-throated)
spoonbill (roseate)
starling
stilt (black-necked)
stilt (red-necked)
stork (wood)
swallow (bank)
swallow (barn)
swallow (cave)
swallow (cliff)
swallow (gray-breasted)
swallow (northern rough-winged)
swallow (tree)
swan (trumpeter)
swan (tundra)
swift (chimney)
swift (white-collared)
swift (white-throated)
tanager (flame-colored)
tanager (hepatic)
tanager (scarlet)
tanager (summer)
tanager (western)
tattler (wandering)
teal (blue-winged)
teal (cinnamon)
teal (green-winged)
tern (Arctic)
tern (black)
tern (bridled)
tern (Caspian)
tern (common)
tern (elegant)
tern (forster's)
tern (gull-billed)
tern (least)
tern (roseate)
tern (royal)
tern (sandwich)
tern (sooty)
thick-knee (double-striped)
thrasher (brown)
thrasher (crissal)
thrasher (curve-billed)
thrasher (long-billed)
thrasher (sage)
tityra (masked)
trogon (elegant)
thrush (Aztec)
thrush (clay-colored)
thrush (gray)
thrush (gray-cheeked)
thrush (hermit)
thrush (rufous-backed)
thrush (white-throated)
thrush (Swainson's)
thrush (wood)
towhee (eastern)
towhee (green-tailed)
towhee (spotted)
titmouse (black-breasted)
titmouse (juniper)
titmouse (tufted)
tropicbird (red-billed)
turkey (wild)
tyrannulet (northern beardless)
veery
verdin
vireo (Bell's)
vireo (black-capped)
vireo (black-whispered)
vireo (blue-headed)
vireo (Cassin's)
vireo (gray)
vireo (Hutton's)
vireo (Philadelphia)
vireo (plumbeous)
vireo (red-eyed)
vireo (warbling)
vireo (white-eyed)
vireo (yellow-throated)
vireo (Yucatan)
vulture (black)
vulture (turkey)
warbler (bay-breasted)
warbler (blackburnian)
warbler (black-and-white)
warbler (black-throated green)
warbler (blue-winged)
warbler (Canada)
warbler (Cape May)
warbler (Cerulean)
warbler (chestnut-sided)
warbler (Colima)
warbler (Connecticut)
warbler (fan-tailed)
warbler (Grace's)
warbler (golden-crowned)
warbler (golden-winged)
warbler (hooded)
warbler (Kentucky)
warbler (Louisiana)
warbler (Lucy's)
warbler (MacGillivray's)
warbler (magnolia)
warbler (mourning)
warbler (Nashville)
warbler (olive)
warbler (orange-crowned)
warbler (palm)
warbler (pine)
warbler (prairie)
warbler (prothonotary)
warbler (red-faced)
warbler (rufous-capped)
warbler (Tennessee)
warbler (Virginia's)
warbler (Wilson's)
warbler (worm-eating)
warbler (yellow)
warbler (yellow-rumped)
warbler (yellow-throated)
waxwing (Bohemian)
waxwing (cedar)
wheatear (northern)
whimbrel
whip-poor-will (eastern)
whip-poor-will (Mexican)
willet
woodcock (American)
woodpecker (acorn)
woodpecker (downy)
woodpecker (golden-fronted)
woodpecker (hairy)
woodpecker (ladder-backed)
woodpecker (Lewis's)
woodpecker (pileated)
woodpecker (red-bellied)
woodpecker (red-cockaded)
woodpecker (red-headed)
woodpecker (red-naped)
wren (Bewick's)
wren (cactus)
wren (canyon)
wren (Carolina)
wren (house)
wren (marsh)
wren (sedge)
wren (winter)
yellowlegs (greater)
yellowlegs (lesser)

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