Birding the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas (Lifer Quest)

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Birding the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas (Lifer Quest)

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The Rio Grande Valley in South Texas is one of the top birding destinations in the United States. Join Ryan and Derek from Badgerland Birding on their first full day in the valley trying to find as many life birds as they can. This is a vlog style video includes clips from other videos and shows an entire day rather than focusing on one particular location or bird.
Video filmed in February, 2023
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Birds in cover image are all public domain and edited by Alan Schmierer
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@thetakitoes 2 ай бұрын

It's so fun and interesting to hear birds described as lifers that are everyday backyard birds for me. I guess we're just blessed down here. I'm glad you enjoyed your trip!

@B_Machine Ай бұрын

I live in South Texas and travel hundreds of miles a week up thowards central/eastern Texas. Almost every time I make a drive, no joke, I see little birds flying at larger birds and pecking at them. I've even seen one land on the back of one and ride while pecking it. The little birds in the area are brave as heck.

@Chris.Bentley.Wildlife 10 ай бұрын

The rio grande valley is incredible! Great video!

@Jar0fMay0 2 ай бұрын

When it’s not hot and humid as hell, it’s great

@rayettajones6441 10 ай бұрын

NEVER disappointed in the videos you share. (Thank you again for showing us birds that some of us will never be able to see.)

@BadgerlandBirding 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@kevinreichenbach5326 10 ай бұрын

I finally get to get down to RGV for the birding festival this year. Thanks for the video boys. This is the best plce to be for the fall migration 👍👍

@TheRioGrandePodcast 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for coming to our hometowns! The birding is amazing!

@BeastOfTraal 10 ай бұрын

I just spent last week in South Texas had 71 species 23 lifers. I had 1 day with 13 lifers.

@whobble 2 ай бұрын

I live here and have seen some of these birds out of my apartment window. I've always known that this area is special for birding but haven't gotten into the hobby. This video is some motivation for me. Thank you.

@BadgerlandBirding 2 ай бұрын

You live in a great spot! You should definitely start getting into it!

@thecornells7430 10 ай бұрын

Great work guys. Easily the best birding videos on you tube. Really helpful. Awesome birds. Thanks. 🇬🇧

@BadgerlandBirding 10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

@thecornells7430 9 ай бұрын

Awesome video guys. Much appreciated from UK birders. Absolutely best birding channel on you tube. 👏👏

@BadgerlandBirding 9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

@BOSS-ji5qh 10 ай бұрын

Love your videos! They're always good. I'm always looking forward to your next videos.

@augthedog55 10 ай бұрын

Love your videos! I can't wait for the next one.

@GreatGray8790 10 ай бұрын

The LRGV is great! Thanks for the video!

@carolshannon6449 10 ай бұрын

What a great video! That is definitely a place at which I'd love to go birding.

@RoseGrace100 10 ай бұрын

Cool white tail hawk. I’ll finally get down there in February. Thanks you guys for another great video.

@HiDefHDMusic 2 ай бұрын

I see great kiskadees in my backyard all the time but I didn’t know we had burrowing owls 😮

@BadgerlandBirding 2 ай бұрын

That one in Texas is famous!

@HiDefHDMusic 2 ай бұрын

@@BadgerlandBirding I’m not much of a bird watcher but it’s easy to find green jays or cardinals at the local nature parks and take a few photos, maybe I’ll make a list someday and go looking for some of the ones I haven’t seen yet !

@hollyperry3774 10 ай бұрын

Inspiring video!

@user-qw5pm6lr9d 10 ай бұрын

That was an interesting white-tailed hawk. My favorite hawk is the zone-tailed hawk.

@Florafauneando 10 ай бұрын

Very interesting place to do birdwatching. I found some species common in South America where I live, as the Great Kiskadee, a very common and widespread bird here. other common are Burrowing owl, Crested caracara, Turkey vulture and Harris's hawk

@HiDefHDMusic 2 ай бұрын

Yes I live in the valley and I see kiskadees nearly everyday in my backyard they’re very common but they stick out because of their pretty yellow colors

@lukeocasio2784 10 ай бұрын

great vid guys !

@user-ku3wc2ob9u 10 ай бұрын

Great birds. Thank you for your videos. We appreciate the information. On an earlier video, you showed that bird guide in CA that you hired. When we return there for another bird trip we are going to hire her to guide us to pick up some more lifers.

@BadgerlandBirding 10 ай бұрын

Rachel is awesome! You’ll have a great time!

@nealroberson5718 10 ай бұрын

Very nice !! Hope to make it there one day !!! Keep the show coming 👊👊

@suzettecalleja3122 10 ай бұрын

I'm surprised at the weather. Was this your most recent trip? The Green Jay's are stunning ❤😊

@BadgerlandBirding 10 ай бұрын

Yes but we’ll be back!

@randybrown1437 6 ай бұрын

Harris's hawk is banded.

@michaelbradym7893 10 ай бұрын

Great video!

@aeromoe 6 ай бұрын

If you guys start plane spotting you'll be able to fill that airport 'downtime' with new adventures

@BadgerlandBirding 6 ай бұрын

I’m going to stick to identifying one type of flying object at a time lol

@aeromoe 6 ай бұрын

Good Idea!! I'm really enjoying you two on your adventures. I'm hoping to do the Lower Rio Grande in April in conjuntion with the Solar Eclipse.@@BadgerlandBirding

@naturephotographychallenge 10 ай бұрын

Great list of new birds to see! That Sanctuary looked really interesting! Lots to see & well organised. I'd love to see a Burrowing Owl (we don't have them in Australia). I know that frustration of getting a one second glimpse of the bird that you want to see. We had that problem just last weekend searching for a Painted Honeyeater. Saw it for 2 seconds & ended up with one blurry photo 🤣

@Beryllahawk 10 ай бұрын

Gorgeous area and great birds! I admit I would ALWAYS take the drive over a flight, partly because I despise airports (for many reasons) but also because driving through Texas is just chock full of great stuff. And I say this after having not been in the state for decades, but I have so many fond memories of driving all over western and central Texas to visit family in the summers when I was a kid - that kind of thing really stays with you, you know? Point of fact had been discussing with a friend that lives up in your neck of the woods and telling them that (if we had the resources to do it) I'd be plenty happy to drive up there, and watching this video had me wishing I could jump in my vehicle and go to Texas too, haha! But travel isn't in the cards this year for me. The birds will be there whenever I'm able to go, right! :D

@nikimillz 10 ай бұрын

Just ran across your channel for the first time and I hope you get to see an Aplomado falcon! They’re one of my favorites. Thanks for the awesome video, I’m from the Valley and a bit of a late bloomer to birding. This footage must be older though because we haven’t had sweater/jacket/beanie weather in quite some time lol.

@heidejg 7 ай бұрын

New to this.. What's a Life Bird? Love your videos!!

@BadgerlandBirding 7 ай бұрын

A life bird is a bird you’re seeing for the first time in your life! So a brand new species for you

@tylercobb643 10 ай бұрын

Great video! How do you guys organize your lifelist's/ bird photos?

@waterbuck 10 ай бұрын

Are you guys going back to the area for the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival?

@BadgerlandBirding 10 ай бұрын

Derek will actually be guiding there this year!

@TheRioGrandePodcast 3 ай бұрын

This is awesome! We had actually got to do a birding podcast episode with the park superintendent at Estero Llano Grande State Park in Weslaco about the birding here in south Texas! The audio version is here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mpyog7Rk1du6lGQ.htmlsi=VzFl9ADR3uVxA9lT

@fsocs369 10 ай бұрын

What a great day! I'm looking forward to the next trip. 🐦🐧🦜🦤

@OrnithologyInsights 10 ай бұрын

Hey, what happened to all the shorts videos you uploaded recently? Just wondering because I came to your channel to see them.

@BadgerlandBirding 10 ай бұрын

They’re on our official “shorts” channel. You can find them here! youtube.com/@BadgerlandBirdingShorts?si=jR-enNLnsNA3JNiL

@OrnithologyInsights 10 ай бұрын

@@BadgerlandBirding Thank you so much! I was wondering where they were. I knew there was no way you deleted that many that quickly. Once again thanks!

@alanhitchings5841 10 ай бұрын

Good, interesting video with some fine footage of the birds. It seems extremely odd to me though that both of you are 'birding' without binoculars! I'm from the UK, have been birding for 40 years and have never seen another birder over here out without a pair of bins.

@BadgerlandBirding 10 ай бұрын

Thanks, Alan! I’ve been getting more into binoculars lately but we both started out only using our cameras so it just became a habit! When I do tours I’m more binocular focused though, but when we’re making videos it’s almost just easier to only use the camera. Happy birding! - Derek

@alanhitchings5841 10 ай бұрын

Thanks Derek. I did think it a bit strange! I saw one of your brothers videos explaining how to use ebird and he wasn't wearing bins then aswell. However all the very best with your birding adventures. I wish we had this type of quality birding content covering British birding.

@jimf5160 10 ай бұрын

How did you plan which areas to visit?

@BadgerlandBirding 10 ай бұрын

We mostly looked on eBird to see what we wanted to see and where we wanted to go. We have an eBird tutorial video if you’ve never used it before. It’s super helpful!

@jimf5160 10 ай бұрын

i am pretty familliar with ebird@@BadgerlandBirding

@BadgerlandBirding 10 ай бұрын

@@jimf5160 great! That’s pretty much all we used for planning the trip