The Texas Panhandle is home to horned larks, kites and prairie chickens. Lake attract mallard, baldpate and pintail migrants. Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge is haven for thousands of wintering sandhill cranes. In West Texas are rare Colima warblers and eagles, canyon wrens, desert-dwelling flycatchers and tiny verdins. The Hill Country hosts large flocks of wild turkeys, almost countless resident and migrant species, and is the nesting place of rate golden-cheeked warblers.
More open terrain is habitat of fleet-footed roadrunners.
The East Texas pine forests are the home of several eastern species including the wood thrush, Acadian flycatcher and Kentucky warbler. All Rights Reserved.