BCR 36.
Tamaulipan Brushlands

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| Whooping Crane. Photo: USFWS |
This plain extending into
northeastern Mexico is grassland, savanna and thornscrub habitat,
much of which has been converted to more shrubby conditions
as a result of grazing history. The very distinctive avifauna
of this region includes Audubon's
Oriole, Buff-bellied Hummingbird, Long-billed Thrasher,
and Plain Chachalaca. Botteri's Sparrow, Attwater's Prairie-Chicken,
White-tailed Hawk, and wintering Whooping
Crane and LeConte's Sparrows are high priority birds of
grassland habitats. Wetlands are habitat for most of the Black-bellied
Whistling-Ducks that breed in the United States, a great variety
of wading and shorebirds, as well as several wintering waterfowl
species.
Important Bird Areas in
this BCR
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| LeConte's Thrasher. Photo: ©
2005 Steve Sosensky |
Bentsen-Rio
Grande Valley State Park
Falcon
Dam
King Ranch
Lower
Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge and Santa
Ana National Wildlife Refuge
Sabal Palm Grove Sanctuary
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