Christmas Bird Count
The annual 2010 Christmas Bird Count was held at the Baytown Nature Center on December 18 as part of the larger Houston Christmas Bird count. The count was once again led by coordinator Sallie Sherman. The following birds have been documented at the Baytown Nature Center and areas near the nature center during annual bird counts.
Gadwall
Green-winged Teal 
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Common Goldeneye
Mottled Duck
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
American Coot
Roseate Spoonbill
White Ibis
Pied-billed Grebe
Brown Pelican
American White Pelican
Neotropic Cormorant
Double Crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Reddish Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
Black vulture
Osprey
Peregrine Falcon
American Kestrel
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Bald Eagle
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Dunlin
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper 
Sanderling
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
American Herring Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Forster's Tern
Royal Tern
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Eurasian Collared-Dove
White-winged Dove
Eastern Screech-Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Eastern Phoebe
Loggerhead Shrike
Blue Jay
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcher
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
American Pipit
Pine Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
Swamp Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
House Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
American Goldfinch
Eastern Bluebird
Red-winged Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
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