Finding Birds in the Heart-of-Texas Finding Birds in the Heart-of-TexasCentral Brazos Valley
The Heart-of-Texas rests in the Central Brazos Valley, ten counties that surround the Brazos River. These include: Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Lee, Leon, Madison, Milam, Robertson, Waller and Washington counties.
Places to bird
....... Brazos County
....... Burleson County
....... Grimes County
....... Lee County
...... Milam County & Granger Area of Williamson County
...... Washington County
...... Lake Somerville (Burleson, Lee and Washington Counties)
Articles
Checklist and Seasonal Distribution
Birds of the Central Brazos Valley, Texas
A new checklist has been prepared by Bert Frenz for this 10-county area. Based on over 15,000 individual sightings, the booklet lists 356 species and includes semi-monthly seasonal distribution graphs for the 302 regularly occurring species. The 10-page checklist folds into a 4" x 7.5" size that conveniently fits in your favorite field guide. To order your copy, send $1.00 and a self-addressed stamped business-size envelope to:
Downloadable Bird Checklist for Central Brazos Valley
The partial checklist below includes 188 abundant, common and uncommon species found in Central Brazos Valley.
Printing instructions: in Page Setup, set top and bottom margins as small as possible, remove all headers and footers, print front side, reinsert the paper, print back side. This has been tested with Internet Explorer and an HP LaserJet 6MP. The checklist should be centered on two pages. Using another setup, you may also have to adjust font size.
If you can't get the above compact format to print properly, you can get the same information spread out over multiple pages with the following selection: