Birds of South Texas

638 bird species are listed by the Texas Birds Records Committee (as of Oct 2012). Accordingly, the state ranks second...to California.

The songful Northern Mockingbird was adopted as the state bird in 1927.

An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked, "Why he would hoard up those round shining things that he could make no use of?" "Why," said the jackdaw, "my master has a whole chestfull, and makes no more use of them that I do."

Jonathon Swift