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Mission, Texas, United States
I'm Tiffany Kersten, a professional bird guide based in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. I spent 2021 traveling, birding, and gifting personal safety alarms to women birders I met on the trails along the way during my Lower 48 States Big Year. In 2022, I founded Nature Ninja Birding Tours, offering customized private tours in the Rio Grande Valley and beyond.

2021 Big Year List

My final tally was 726 species. 

Code 1: 485
Code 2: 176 
Code 3: 40
Code 4: 18 
Code 5: 7

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Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

1

Fulvous Whistling-Duck

1

Snow Goose

1

Ross's Goose

1

Greater White-fronted Goose

1

Brant

1

Cackling Goose

1

Canada Goose

1

Mute Swan

1

Trumpeter Swan

1

Tundra Swan

1

Wood Duck

1

Blue-winged Teal

1

Cinnamon Teal

1

Northern Shoveler

1

Gadwall

1

American Wigeon

1

Mallard

1

American Black Duck

1

Mottled Duck

1

Northern Pintail

1

Green-winged Teal

1

Canvasback

1

Redhead

1

Ring-necked Duck

1

Greater Scaup

1

Lesser Scaup

1

Common Eider

1

Harlequin Duck

1

Surf Scoter

1

White-winged Scoter

1

Black Scoter

1

Long-tailed Duck

1

Bufflehead

1

Common Goldeneye

1

Barrow's Goldeneye

1

Hooded Merganser

1

Common Merganser

1

Red-breasted Merganser

1

Ruddy Duck

1

Mountain Quail

1

Northern Bobwhite

1

Scaled Quail

1

California Quail

1

Gambel's Quail

1

Ring-necked Pheasant

1

Ruffed Grouse

1

Greater Sage-Grouse

1

Wild Turkey

1

Pied-billed Grebe

1

Horned Grebe

1

Red-necked Grebe

1

Eared Grebe

1

Western Grebe

1

Clark's Grebe

1

Rock Pigeon

1

Band-tailed Pigeon

1

Eurasian Collared-Dove

1

Inca Dove

1

Common Ground Dove

1

White-winged Dove

1

Mourning Dove

1

Greater Roadrunner

1

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

1

Black-billed Cuckoo

1

Lesser Nighthawk

1

Common Nighthawk

1

Common Poorwill

1

Chuck-will's-widow

1

Eastern Whip-poor-will

1

Chimney Swift

1

Vaux's Swift

1

White-throated Swift

1

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

1

Black-chinned Hummingbird

1

Anna's Hummingbird

1

Costa's Hummingbird

1

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

1

Rufous Hummingbird

1

Allen's Hummingbird

1

Calliope Hummingbird

1

Clapper Rail

1

King Rail

1

Virginia Rail

1

Sora

1

Purple Gallinule

1

Common Gallinule

1

American Coot

1

Sandhill Crane

1

Black-necked Stilt

1

American Avocet

1

American Oystercatcher

1

Black Oystercatcher

1

Black-bellied Plover

1

American Golden-Plover

1

Killdeer

1

Semipalmated Plover

1

Wilson's Plover

1

Snowy Plover

1

Upland Sandpiper

1

Whimbrel

1

Long-billed Curlew

1

Hudsonian Godwit

1

Marbled Godwit

1

Ruddy Turnstone

1

Black Turnstone

1

Red Knot

1

Surfbird

1

Stilt Sandpiper

1

Sanderling

1

Dunlin

1

Purple Sandpiper

1

Baird's Sandpiper

1

Least Sandpiper

1

White-rumped Sandpiper

1

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

1

Pectoral Sandpiper

1

Semipalmated Sandpiper

1

Western Sandpiper

1

Short-billed Dowitcher

1

Long-billed Dowitcher

1

American Woodcock

1

Wilson's Snipe

1

Spotted Sandpiper

1

Solitary Sandpiper

1

Wandering Tattler

1

Lesser Yellowlegs

1

Willet

1

Greater Yellowlegs

1

Wilson's Phalarope

1

Red-necked Phalarope

1

Red Phalarope

1

Pomarine Jaeger

1

Parasitic Jaeger

1

Long-tailed Jaeger

1

Common Murre

1

Razorbill

1

Black Guillemot

1

Pigeon Guillemot

1

Marbled Murrelet

1

Cassin's Auklet

1

Rhinoceros Auklet

1

Atlantic Puffin

1

Tufted Puffin

1

Black-legged Kittiwake

1

Sabine's Gull

1

Bonaparte's Gull

1

Laughing Gull

1

Franklin's Gull

1

Heermann's Gull

1

Short-billed Gull

1

Ring-billed Gull

1

Western Gull

1

California Gull

1

Herring Gull

1

Iceland Gull

1

Glaucous-winged Gull

1

Glaucous Gull

1

Great Black-backed Gull

1

Least Tern

1

Gull-billed Tern

1

Caspian Tern

1

Black Tern

1

Common Tern

1

Arctic Tern

1

Forster's Tern

1

Royal Tern

1

Sandwich Tern

1

Elegant Tern

1

Black Skimmer

1

Red-throated Loon

1

Pacific Loon

1

Common Loon

1

Black-footed Albatross

1

Wilson's Storm-Petrel

1

Leach's Storm-Petrel

1

Northern Fulmar

1

Cory's Shearwater

1

Sooty Shearwater

1

Great Shearwater

1

Pink-footed Shearwater

1

Audubon's Shearwater

1

Wood Stork

1

Magnificent Frigatebird

1

Northern Gannet

1

Brandt's Cormorant

1

Neotropic Cormorant

1

Double-crested Cormorant

1

Great Cormorant

1

Pelagic Cormorant

1

Anhinga

1

American White Pelican

1

Brown Pelican

1

American Bittern

1

Least Bittern

1

Great Blue Heron

1

Great Egret

1

Snowy Egret

1

Little Blue Heron

1

Tricolored Heron

1

Reddish Egret

1

Cattle Egret

1

Green Heron

1

Black-crowned Night-Heron

1

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

1

White Ibis

1

Glossy Ibis

1

White-faced Ibis

1

Roseate Spoonbill

1

Black Vulture

1

Turkey Vulture

1

Osprey

1

White-tailed Kite

1

Swallow-tailed Kite

1

Golden Eagle

1

Northern Harrier

1

Sharp-shinned Hawk

1

Cooper's Hawk

1

Northern Goshawk

1

Bald Eagle

1

Mississippi Kite

1

Harris's Hawk

1

Red-shouldered Hawk

1

Broad-winged Hawk

1

Swainson's Hawk

1

Red-tailed Hawk

1

Rough-legged Hawk

1

Ferruginous Hawk

1

Barn Owl

1

Western Screech-Owl

1

Eastern Screech-Owl

1

Great Horned Owl

1

Burrowing Owl

1

Barred Owl

1

Short-eared Owl

1

Belted Kingfisher

1

Lewis's Woodpecker

1

Red-headed Woodpecker

1

Acorn Woodpecker

1

Gila Woodpecker

1

Golden-fronted Woodpecker

1

Red-bellied Woodpecker

1

Williamson's Sapsucker

1

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

1

Red-naped Sapsucker

1

Red-breasted Sapsucker

1

Downy Woodpecker

1

Nuttall's Woodpecker

1

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

1

Hairy Woodpecker

1

White-headed Woodpecker

1

Northern Flicker

1

Pileated Woodpecker

1

American Kestrel

1

Merlin

1

Peregrine Falcon

1

Prairie Falcon

1

Ash-throated Flycatcher

1

Great Crested Flycatcher

1

Brown-crested Flycatcher

1

Cassin's Kingbird

1

Western Kingbird

1

Eastern Kingbird

1

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

1

Olive-sided Flycatcher

1

Western Wood-Pewee

1

Eastern Wood-Pewee

1

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

1

Acadian Flycatcher

1

Alder Flycatcher

1

Willow Flycatcher

1

Least Flycatcher

1

Hammond's Flycatcher

1

Gray Flycatcher

1

Dusky Flycatcher

1

Pacific-slope Flycatcher

1

Cordilleran Flycatcher

1

Black Phoebe

1

Eastern Phoebe

1

Say's Phoebe

1

Vermilion Flycatcher

1

Loggerhead Shrike

1

Northern Shrike

1

White-eyed Vireo

1

Bell's Vireo

1

Hutton's Vireo

1

Yellow-throated Vireo

1

Cassin's Vireo

1

Blue-headed Vireo

1

Plumbeous Vireo

1

Philadelphia Vireo

1

Warbling Vireo

1

Red-eyed Vireo

1

Canada Jay

1

Pinyon Jay

1

Steller's Jay

1

Blue Jay

1

California Scrub-Jay

1

Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay

1

Clark's Nutcracker

1

Black-billed Magpie

1

American Crow

1

Fish Crow

1

Chihuahuan Raven

1

Common Raven

1

Horned Lark

1

Tree Swallow

1

Bank Swallow

1

Violet-green Swallow

1

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

1

Purple Martin

1

Barn Swallow

1

Cliff Swallow

1

Cave Swallow

1

Carolina Chickadee

1

Black-capped Chickadee

1

Mountain Chickadee

1

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

1

Boreal Chickadee

1

Oak Titmouse

1

Juniper Titmouse

1

Tufted Titmouse

1

Verdin

1

Bushtit

1

Red-breasted Nuthatch

1

White-breasted Nuthatch

1

Pygmy Nuthatch

1

Brown-headed Nuthatch

1

Brown Creeper

1

Rock Wren

1

Canyon Wren

1

House Wren

1

Pacific Wren

1

Winter Wren

1

Sedge Wren

1

Marsh Wren

1

Carolina Wren

1

Bewick's Wren

1

Cactus Wren

1

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

1

Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

1

American Dipper

1

Golden-crowned Kinglet

1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

1

Wrentit

1

Eastern Bluebird

1

Western Bluebird

1

Mountain Bluebird

1

Townsend's Solitaire

1

Veery

1

Gray-cheeked Thrush

1

Swainson's Thrush

1

Hermit Thrush

1

Wood Thrush

1

American Robin

1

Varied Thrush

1

Gray Catbird

1

Curve-billed Thrasher

1

Brown Thrasher

1

Sage Thrasher

1

Northern Mockingbird

1

European Starling

1

Cedar Waxwing

1

Phainopepla

1

House Sparrow

1

American Pipit

1

Evening Grosbeak

1

Pine Grosbeak

1

Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch

1

House Finch

1

Purple Finch

1

Cassin's Finch

1

Common Redpoll

1

Red Crossbill

1

Pine Siskin

1

Lesser Goldfinch

1

American Goldfinch

1

Lapland Longspur

1

Chestnut-collared Longspur

1

Snow Bunting

1

Cassin's Sparrow

1

Bachman's Sparrow

1

Grasshopper Sparrow

1

Black-throated Sparrow

1

Lark Sparrow

1

Lark Bunting

1

Chipping Sparrow

1

Clay-colored Sparrow

1

Black-chinned Sparrow

1

Field Sparrow

1

Brewer's Sparrow

1

Fox Sparrow

1

American Tree Sparrow

1

Dark-eyed Junco

1

White-crowned Sparrow

1

Golden-crowned Sparrow

1

Harris's Sparrow

1

White-throated Sparrow

1

Sagebrush Sparrow

1

Bell's Sparrow

1

Vesper Sparrow

1

LeConte's Sparrow

1

Seaside Sparrow

1

Nelson's Sparrow

1

Saltmarsh Sparrow

1

Savannah Sparrow

1

Song Sparrow

1

Lincoln's Sparrow

1

Swamp Sparrow

1

Canyon Towhee

1

Abert's Towhee

1

California Towhee

1

Rufous-crowned Sparrow

1

Green-tailed Towhee

1

Spotted Towhee

1

Eastern Towhee

1

Yellow-breasted Chat

1

Yellow-headed Blackbird

1

Bobolink

1

Eastern Meadowlark

1

Western Meadowlark

1

Orchard Oriole

1

Hooded Oriole

1

Bullock's Oriole

1

Baltimore Oriole

1

Scott's Oriole

1

Red-winged Blackbird

1

Bronzed Cowbird

1

Brown-headed Cowbird

1

Rusty Blackbird

1

Brewer's Blackbird

1

Common Grackle

1

Boat-tailed Grackle

1

Great-tailed Grackle

1

Ovenbird

1

Worm-eating Warbler

1

Louisiana Waterthrush

1

Northern Waterthrush

1

Blue-winged Warbler

1

Black-and-white Warbler

1

Prothonotary Warbler

1

Tennessee Warbler

1

Orange-crowned Warbler

1

Lucy's Warbler

1

Nashville Warbler

1

Virginia's Warbler

1

MacGillivray's Warbler

1

Mourning Warbler

1

Kentucky Warbler

1

Common Yellowthroat

1

Hooded Warbler

1

American Redstart

1

Cape May Warbler

1

Northern Parula

1

Magnolia Warbler

1

Bay-breasted Warbler

1

Blackburnian Warbler

1

Yellow Warbler

1

Chestnut-sided Warbler

1

Blackpoll Warbler

1

Black-throated Blue Warbler

1

Palm Warbler

1

Pine Warbler

1

Yellow-rumped Warbler

1

Yellow-throated Warbler

1

Prairie Warbler

1

Grace's Warbler

1

Black-throated Gray Warbler

1

Townsend's Warbler

1

Hermit Warbler

1

Black-throated Green Warbler

1

Canada Warbler

1

Wilson's Warbler

1

Summer Tanager

1

Scarlet Tanager

1

Western Tanager

1

Northern Cardinal

1

Pyrrhuloxia

1

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

1

Black-headed Grosbeak

1

Blue Grosbeak

1

Lazuli Bunting

1

Indigo Bunting

1

Painted Bunting

1

Dickcissel

2

Emperor Goose

2

Egyptian Goose

2

Muscovy Duck

2

Eurasian Wigeon

2

Mexican Duck

2

King Eider

2

Plain Chachalaca

2

Montezuma Quail

2

Spruce Grouse

2

White-tailed Ptarmigan

2

Gunnison Sage-Grouse

2

Dusky Grouse

2

Sooty Grouse

2

Sharp-tailed Grouse

2

Greater Prairie-Chicken

2

Lesser Prairie-Chicken

2

Gray Partridge

2

Indian Peafowl

2

Red Junglefowl

2

Himalayan Snowcock

2

Chukar

2

Least Grebe

2

White-crowned Pigeon

2

Red-billed Pigeon

2

Spotted Dove

2

White-tipped Dove

2

Groove-billed Ani

2

Mangrove Cuckoo

2

Antillean Nighthawk

2

Common Pauraque

2

Mexican Whip-poor-will

2

Black Swift

2

Rivoli's Hummingbird

2

Blue-throated Mountain-Gem

2

Lucifer Hummingbird

2

Broad-billed Hummingbird

2

Buff-bellied Hummingbird

2

Violet-crowned Hummingbird

2

Yellow Rail

2

Black Rail

2

Ridgway's Rail

2

Purple Swamphen

2

Limpkin

2

Whooping Crane

2

Pacific Golden-Plover

2

Piping Plover

2

Mountain Plover

2

Bar-tailed Godwit

2

Rock Sandpiper

2

South Polar Skua

2

Dovekie

2

Scripps's Murrelet

2

Ancient Murrelet

2

Black-headed Gull

2

Little Gull

2

Lesser Black-backed Gull

2

Brown Noddy

2

Black Noddy

2

Sooty Tern

2

Bridled Tern

2

Roseate Tern

2

White-tailed Tropicbird

2

Yellow-billed Loon

2

Laysan Albatross

2

Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel

2

Ashy Storm-Petrel

2

Band-rumped Storm-Petrel

2

Black Storm-Petrel

2

Black-capped Petrel

2

Buller's Shearwater

2

Short-tailed Shearwater

2

Manx Shearwater

2

Black-vented Shearwater

2

Brown Booby

2

Red-footed Booby

2

California Condor

2

Snail Kite

2

Common Black Hawk

2

White-tailed Hawk

2

Gray Hawk

2

Short-tailed Hawk

2

Zone-tailed Hawk

2

Flammulated Owl

2

Whiskered Screech-Owl

2

Snowy Owl

2

Northern Pygmy-Owl

2

Elf Owl

2

Spotted Owl

2

Great Gray Owl

2

Long-eared Owl

2

Boreal Owl

2

Northern Saw-whet Owl

2

Elegant Trogon

2

Ringed Kingfisher

2

Green Kingfisher

2

American Three-toed Woodpecker

2

Black-backed Woodpecker

2

Red-cockaded Woodpecker

2

Arizona Woodpecker

2

Gilded Flicker

2

Crested Caracara

2

Monk Parakeet

2

Nanday Parakeet

2

Green Parakeet

2

Mitred Parakeet

2

White-winged Parakeet

2

Yellow-chevroned Parakeet

2

Red-crowned Parrot

2

Rose-ringed Parakeet

2

Rosy-faced Lovebird

2

Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet

2

Dusky-capped Flycatcher

2

Great Kiskadee

2

Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher

2

Tropical Kingbird

2

Couch's Kingbird

2

Thick-billed Kingbird

2

Gray Kingbird

2

Greater Pewee

2

Buff-breasted Flycatcher

2

Black-capped Vireo

2

Gray Vireo

2

Black-whiskered Vireo

2

Green Jay

2

Florida Scrub-Jay

2

Island Scrub-Jay

2

Mexican Jay

2

Yellow-billed Magpie

2

Mexican Chickadee

2

Bridled Titmouse

2

Black-crested Titmouse

2

California Gnatcatcher

2

Red-vented Bulbul

2

Red-whiskered Bulbul

2

Bicknell's Thrush

2

Clay-colored Thrush

2

Long-billed Thrasher

2

Bendire's Thrasher

2

California Thrasher

2

LeConte's Thrasher

2

Crissal Thrasher

2

Common Myna

2

Bohemian Waxwing

2

Olive Warbler

2

Scaly-breasted Munia

2

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

2

Sprague's Pipit

2

Black Rosy-Finch

2

Brown-capped Rosy-Finch

2

Hoary Redpoll

2

Cassia Crossbill

2

White-winged Crossbill

2

Lawrence's Goldfinch

2

Smith's Longspur

2

Thick-billed Longspur

2

Rufous-winged Sparrow

2

Botteri's Sparrow

2

Olive Sparrow

2

Yellow-eyed Junco

2

Baird's Sparrow

2

Henslow's Sparrow

2

Spot-breasted Oriole

2

Altamira Oriole

2

Audubon's Oriole

2

Tricolored Blackbird

2

Golden-winged Warbler

2

Swainson's Warbler

2

Colima Warbler

2

Connecticut Warbler

2

Kirtland's Warbler

2

Cerulean Warbler

2

Golden-cheeked Warbler

2

Red-faced Warbler

2

Painted Redstart

2

Hepatic Tanager

2

Varied Bunting

3

Tufted Duck

3

American Flamingo

3

Ruddy Ground Dove

3

Smooth-billed Ani

3

Buff-collared Nightjar

3

Berylline Hummingbird

3

White-eared Hummingbird

3

Lesser Sand-Plover

3

Ruff

3

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

3

Curlew Sandpiper

3

Gray-tailed Tattler

3

Guadalupe Murrelet

3

Craveri's Murrelet

3

Yellow-footed Gull

3

Slaty-backed Gull

3

Short-tailed Albatross

3

Townsend's Storm-Petrel

3

Least Storm-Petrel

3

Fea's Petrel

3

Flesh-footed Shearwater

3

Masked Booby

3

Hook-billed Kite

3

Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl

3

Aplomado Falcon

3

Rose-throated Becard

3

Fork-tailed Flycatcher

3

Yellow-green Vireo

3

Black-capped Gnatcatcher

3

Rufous-backed Robin

3

White Wagtail

3

Red-throated Pipit

3

Five-striped Sparrow

3

Western Spindalis

3

Shiny Cowbird

3

Tropical Parula

3

Rufous-capped Warbler

3

Flame-colored Tanager

3

Yellow-faced Grassquit

3

Morelet's Seedeater

4

Pink-footed Goose

4

Barnacle Goose

4

Garganey

4

Green-breasted Mango

4

Plain-capped Starthroat

4

Northern Lapwing 

4

Northern Jacana

4

Little Stint

4

Nazca Booby

4

Blue-footed Booby

4

Little Egret

4

Tamaulipas Crow

4

Dusky Warbler

4

Streak-backed Oriole

4

Golden-crowned Warbler

4

Crimson-collared Grosbeak

4

Blue Bunting

4

Black-faced Grassquit

5

Spotted Rail

5

Small-billed Elaenia

5

Social Flycatcher

5

Cuban Pewee

5

Red-legged Thrush

5

Blue Mockingbird

5

Bat Falcon (provisional) 

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