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<div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Brazos Bend State Park]]'''</div>
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[[Image:Brown-headed GullBr.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Adult Breeding plumage<br />Photo by {{user|peterday|peterday}}]]
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[[Image:Wood Storks-Elm Lake BBSP.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Photo by {{user|HelenB|HelenB}}]]
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==Identification==
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==Overview==
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41–45 cm (16-17¾ in). A two-year gull, similar to [[Black-headed Gull]] and often best told apart in flight.
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Brazos Bend State Park is located about 28 miles southwest of Houston, in Fort Bend County, [[Texas]].  It is about 5000 acres in size and has a variety of habitats, such as lakes, swamp, woodland and prairie, almost all accessible by a great trail system. Its eastern boundary lies along the Brazos River.
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* Grey upperwing and broad white [[Topography#Wings|primary]] base, creating white half-moon against black wing-tip with prominent white mirrors
 
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* Red bill and legs, very dark when breeding
 
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* White eye, white eyelids
 
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* Dark brown hood, often paler towards face. In winter white head with dark-brown spots in front, above and behind the eye
 
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* White tail
 
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==Distribution==
 
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Breeds in the mountains of south-central [[Asia]] between 3000 and 4500m. Winters on the coasts of [[India]], [[Sri Lanka]] and southeast [[Asia]], sparingly west to the [[Arabian Peninsula]].
 
  
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This birding hotspot is site no. '''UTC 117''' on the '''Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail.'''
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===Areas of Interest===
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*About 35 miles of hiking and biking trails, and one equestrian trail with primitive campsite.
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*3 picnic areas with barbeque pits, 2 of them with group pavilions.
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*Creekfield Lake Nature Trail has interpretive signs and is wheelchair accessible.
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Revision as of 15:49, 1 January 2018

Featured Article: Brazos Bend State Park
Photo by HelenB

Overview

Brazos Bend State Park is located about 28 miles southwest of Houston, in Fort Bend County, Texas. It is about 5000 acres in size and has a variety of habitats, such as lakes, swamp, woodland and prairie, almost all accessible by a great trail system. Its eastern boundary lies along the Brazos River.

This birding hotspot is site no. UTC 117 on the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail.

Areas of Interest

  • About 35 miles of hiking and biking trails, and one equestrian trail with primitive campsite.
  • 3 picnic areas with barbeque pits, 2 of them with group pavilions.
  • Creekfield Lake Nature Trail has interpretive signs and is wheelchair accessible.

[Read More...]

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