TPW MAG -- 12 BIRDS: What bird tops the list of bird 
species every Texan should know ... we tell you ... ahead ... 
on Passport to Texas.

This is Passport to Texas

Some bird species in Texas are ubiquitous - but that 
doesn't mean we notice them.

17 -- Ubiquitous simply means they're all over the place. We might tune 
them out as just like background noise; we don't really look at them. But 
once you start tuning in and really looking at them you're like, what is 
that? I've never seen that. But, you know, it was always there. You just 
didn't look. 




Non-game ornithologist, Cliff Shackelford, compiled a list 
of 12 such species he says every Texan should know.

19 -- This arose from questions over the years that I've received about, 
"Hey, what's that dark duck we see when we drive over the bridge?" Or, 
"What's this weird striped bird at our bird feeder?" And when you get 
that kind of call over and over and over, you realize there are some 
really common birds that people don't know what they are. So, that's 
kind of how I generated that list of twelve.

Find the list in the August/September issue of TPW 
Magazine. And while Cliff says there's no order to the list, 
a special species takes the number one spot. 

05 -- I had to start the list with our state bird of Texas, which is the 
mockingbird.

Find the article Twelve Birds Every Texan Should Know by 
Cliff Shackelford in the August/September issue of TPW 
magazine. 

Tomorrow, some of our other feathered friends that made 
the list ... and why.

Funding for our series provided in part by Ram Trucks: 
Guts. Glory. Ram

For Texas Parks and Wildlife, I'm Cecilia Nasti.



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