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USA - Texas: Winter: Whooping Cranes and the Lower Rio Grande

© Hook-billed Kite by Dusan Brinkhuizen
USA - Texas: Winter: Whooping Cranes and the Lower Rio Grande

USD3,800 NO SPACES AVAILABLE

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Tour Leader: Local Leader

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Tour Price (Per person): USD3,800 (GBP2,916 * EUR3,321 * AUD5,856)

Pricing notes : Please see BirdingDirect link for spaces and updated pricing.

For enquiries & bookings, please following this link:  Birding Direct - United States

This tour is operated by High Lonesome BirdTours in partnership with BirdingDirect.
These are large group tours (up to 16 guests with multiple tour leaders), and will have guests from both Highlonesome as well as BirdingDirect.

South Texas is a birder's paradise at any time of the year, but especially during late winter when the spectacular array of resident birds in south Texas are joined by an abundance of wintering shorebirds and waterfowl. This 9day tour begins and ends in Corpus Christi with a leisurely swing through the birding hot spots of the lower Rio Grande Valley.

 

Top Birds

Whooping Crane; Roseate Spoonbill; Mottled Duck, Masked Duck (rare); Plain Chachalaca; Least Grebe; White-tipped Dove; Buff-bellied Hummingbird; Ringed & Green Kingfishers; Hook-billed Kite; Grey & Harris’s Hawks; Great Kiskadee; Tropical & Couch’s Kingbirds; Scissor-tailed Flycatcher; Green & Brown Jays; Clay-colored Thrush; Long-billed Thrasher, Olive Sparrow; Altamira & Audubon’s Orioles, many others including rare vagrants in the winter.

Top Mammals

Ocelot (rare), Eastern Cottontail, Eastern Fox Squirrel, White-tailed Deer​

Habitats Covered

Sub-tropical, seaside, marsh, lagood, desert

Expected Climate

Moderate to hot

Max Group Size

14 with 2 Tour Leaders

Tour Pace & Walking

Our days will begin anywhere from 5:00 to 7:00, depending upon the destination.

Accommodation

Very comfortable hotels & excellent Texas restaurants

Ease of Birding

mostly easy

Number of Species Expected

185

Photographic Opportunities

outstanding

What our clients say about us

Stephan Lorenz
CB, Texas 2021

I would rate my experience on the Texas Coast trip with Stephan and Claudia as excellent. They are both superb at what they do.

Stephan Lorenz
MC, Colorado & Texas 2022

I would just like to say how much I enjoyed both the tours - I saw lots of new birds, and our guide Stephan Lorenz was fantastic - extremely knowledgeable, and very patient, and made sure we all saw the birds. His wife Claudia was also extremely helpful in so many ways. I certainly hope I will do another tour with them in the not too distant future. The groups on both tours were friendly and easy to get on with. It was cold in Colorado, but it is a beautiful part of the world!

Stephan Lorenz
MT - Colorado 2022

I am always very pleased and comfortable with the Rockjumper and High Lonesome tours that I have been on. Stephan and Claudia are a wonderful couple! They make everything run so smoothly and are so pleasant to be around. I know it is their job, but they always take any issues or complications in stride and do their utmost to make everything run smoothly. And Stephan is as good as it gets as a birding guide... so well prepared and knowledgeable about everything. This is my third tour with him (in the US) and am always amazed (even though I shouldn't be by now) how quickly he picks up on birds in the area. Tremendous trip, even having logged 5000 miles in the vans, and am looking forward to the next one this summer.

Stephan Lorenz
MM & EM - Colorado 2022

Guides were very safety conscious. They took care of their clients.

Stephan Lorenz
WW, Texas 2021

Stephan Lorenz is a fantastic leader. This is my second trip with him and the reason I booked this trip. His attention to details and relentless searching for sought after birds makes any trip with him well worth the time. He and his wife, Claudia work well together as a dynamic team solving any problem that arise. We missed our connections and were late for the first day and efforts were made and resolved for us to join the group quickly. Despite the stormy weather we were able to see the target birds. This trip was selected because of the shorter amount of days making it easier to fit into our schedule. During this pandemic we felt safe traveling with this group and with the conditions of lodging and take out meal dining. I look forward to my next trip with Stephan.

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