Birding the National Butterfly Center in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas

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Жыл бұрын

South Texas is home to some of the top birding hotspots in the nation. One of these hotspots, the National Butterfly Center, normally hosts a few rarities including Audubon's Orioles, Groove-billed Anis, and Northern Beardless Tyrannulets. We met up with our friend Ryan Rodriguez in order to try to find some of the birds.
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Audubon's Oriole in cover image by Andy Reago and Chrissy McClarren (CC by 2.0, edited)
Northern Beardless Tyrannulet in cover image and at 1:15 by Alan Schmierer (Public Domain, edited)
Northern Beardless Tyrannulet at 5:22 by Ryan Rodriguez (used with permission)
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@nathanwebb4836 Жыл бұрын

You got some terrific views of the groove-billed ani.

@joehanleyrodriguez2572 9 ай бұрын

Awesome video! This is all my backyard daily

@Beryllahawk Жыл бұрын

What a fantastical bird the Ani is!!! That beak is something else, and the feather pattern is so cool. Almost like nature mixed together finch and falcon traits. You'd almost think the bird was enjoying the humans' attention to it, too! As if maybe the bird had "human with funny hat" on a target list of its own, haha!

@raymiemiller1455 Жыл бұрын

Happy to hear the Butterfly Center is still around. I'd heard it had closed, or was going to close, or something.

@madmarscha Жыл бұрын

They received a lot of threats from people who believed there was a secret migrant smuggling ring using the Center as a cover. They closed it in Feb 2022 to keep their employees safe and reopened it in April 2022.

@Just_shush_now Жыл бұрын

@@madmarscha murica

@garymeredith2441 Жыл бұрын

I've been to the Butterfly Center but only for butterflying that when I was there in 2015 they didn't have any bird feeder setup I'm glad they do now I will definitely go there next year , thank you for showing this to us viewers there Derek and Ryan .

@rakgupta Жыл бұрын

Ryan Rodriguez is the best! We spent a couple of days with him in February in the Rio Grande Valley. What an amazing place

@Ovenbirder Жыл бұрын

You had some great birds there! In 2018 during a visit there we got Blue Bunting! Seems like there’s always something rare around.

@BadgerlandBirding Жыл бұрын

That’s awesome! We were hoping a Blue Bunting would be reported when we were in town.

@nancycusumano2776 Жыл бұрын

Great video! We were there in January, but you got better birds than we did.

@malolm Жыл бұрын

Man Texas birds are absolout stunners, the orioles, green jays, kiskadees. The tyrannulet was sp cute as well. Glad you guys had a nice time. Great upload!

@janeenpfeiffer3465 Жыл бұрын

So cool❤

@barbaracole709 Жыл бұрын

So many beautiful and interesting birds there!

@naturewithgabe Жыл бұрын

South Texas is awesome! Great video.

@soul_adventurist Жыл бұрын

Beautiful birds and butterflies ❤

@wisconsinbackyardbirding Жыл бұрын

such beautiful orioles and other birds also, great video.

@zachmatchinski1764 Жыл бұрын

The Ani is a really cool one. About two weeks ago, I got to see a Groove-billed and Smooth-billed Anis at the same spot, with great views of both of them.

@benslusher1698 Жыл бұрын

The green jays were pretty cool ❤

@g57462 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video 📹 👏 👍

@trueaco Жыл бұрын

Thanks for another GREAT upload! Good script, good views of birds! Could you share roughly the dates you visited RGV?

@yvonnerogers6429 Жыл бұрын

😎

@benslusher1698 Жыл бұрын

The grooved bill ani kinda looks like a dragon almost

@MylifeofTao Жыл бұрын

Awesome video! Springtime looks a lot different here in Canada. Take a look at my latest video for some snowy spring bird watching😅

@dkthebirder09 Жыл бұрын

Are you guys gonna do a April Migration Madness Challenge?

@BadgerlandBirding Жыл бұрын

Yup! But it’ll be a little different. Releasing the vid about it tomorrow

@dkthebirder09 Жыл бұрын

@@BadgerlandBirding Thanks! I'll be looking forward to it!

@kishascape 6 ай бұрын

Birds > winged bugs

@Idiotboi Жыл бұрын

What time of the year did you guys film this? We are planning a trip and want to maximize our shot at the best birding time of the year. Thanks, guys! AWESOME VIDEOS BTW!