Wilson’s Storm-Petrel photo by Wyatt Egelhoff
Here’s the quarterly update to the “Big as Texas eBird Counties” spreadsheet for Summer of 2026
Highlights and notes from late May to early September
Hooded Crow was added to the Texas list this quarter: Nueces – checklist
Texas Ornithology Society (TOS) Review Species added to counties for the quarter.
Current state of Counties with Warbling Vireo (Eastern/Western) records (03/04/26)
- Counties remaining undifferentiated: Andrews, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Coke, Crockett, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Ector, Edwards, Floyd, Glasscock, Hale, Hall, Hockley, Hutchinson, Lamb, Loving, Lynn, Mitchell, Moore, Motley, Potter, Reagan, Reeves, Roberts, Sterling, Terry.
- Counties with both Eastern and Western in eBird: Cameron, Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Harris, Kent, Lubbock, Midland, Parmer, Pecos, Presidio, Tom Green, Travis
“Way out of range” county records:
- Bell: Painted Redstart – checklist
- Calhoun: Western Flycatcher – (historical 2005) checklist
- Chambers: Band-tailed Pigeon – (historical 1974) checklist
- El Paso: Northern Bobwhite – checklist
- Henderson: Reddish Egret – checklist
- Kinney: Swallow-tailed Kite – checklist
- Leon: Western Tanager – checklist
- Nacogdoches: Plumbeous Vireo – (historical 2001) checklist
- Panola: Sandhill Crane – (historical 1998) checklist
- Randall: Swallow-tailed Kite – checklist
- Audubon’s Oriole – checklist
- Reeves: Swallow-tailed Kite – checklist
- San Augustine: Common Ground-Dove – (2001) checklist
- Cassin’s Sparrow, Brewer’s Sparrow – (2000) checklist
- Smith: Royal Tern – checklist
- Tom Green: Fulvous Whistling-Duck – checklist
- Val Verde: Swallow-tailed Kite – checklist
- Webb: Cerulean Warbler – (1998) checklist
- Yoakum: Lesser Nighthawk – checklist
Continuous work in obscure counties:
- San Augustine: (6 historical species:2000-2001) David Wolf
- Cinnamon Teal
- Common Ground-Dove
- Red Knot
- Cassin’s Sparrow
- Brewer’s Sparrow
- Henslow’s Sparrow
Scaly-breasted Munia was added to 10 counties: Aransas, Brazos, Aransas, Brazos, Grimes, Hardin, Jackson, Jefferson, Liberty, San Patricio, Walker and Wharton
Swallow-tailed Kite this quarter, was added to 4 counties: Kinney, Randall, Reeves & Val Verde
Limpkin, this quarter, was added to 0 counties.
Full list of addtions by county
Species needed for just one county:
- Western Kingbird: Shelby
- Cedar Waxwing: Loving
- American Pipit: Hall
- Lark Sparrow: Newton
- Vesper Sparrow: Sabine
- Orchard Oriole: Castro
- Nashville Warbler: Moore
- Wilson’s Warbler: Franklin
For the quarter (last 3 months) eBirders added 104 total county ticks starting at 74674 & ending at 74,778.
Safe county birding!
I keep track of County Big Days. So if your random winter birding day or Christmas Bird Count day is pretty big, maybe it will make it on the list on our Texas Century Club County Big Days page. Again I remind those of you who’d like, there’s a way to find your top county big days by downloading your data from eBird and upload it to Colton Robbins’ Birding Analytics browser app here: https://birdinganalytics.netlify.app/ It will spit out all your county top 3 big days, which you can compare to our County Big Day list at the Texas Century Club site, to see if it makes any of the Counties’ top 10.