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- LAUREL WILLIAMS: Can you see that Snowy Egret?
Can you see its legs?
- NARRATOR: Way down in South Texas, there's
a place where you can go to see birds.
- LAUREL: Yeah his feet are yellow and his legs are black.
- NARRATOR: Lots of birds.
- This is Estero Llano Grande State Park
in Weslaco, Texas.
Part of the World Birding Center.
- BIRDER: The one on the left is probably a
Couch's or a Tropical Kingbird.
- BIRDER: There's a Least Grebe in the middle of the pond, no.
- The World Birding Center consists of nine sites
throughout the Rio Grande Valley,
three of those are state parks.
- I'd like to welcome you all to Estero Llano Grande State Park.
- NARRATOR: Here you can see birds in a tree,
birds on the water, birds on a wire,
and birds on a nest.
- MARCY: In the park we have approximately 216 bird species
recorded.
On just a regular day you can sit on this deck for
an hour or two and easily spot 30 to 40 species of birds.
- NARRATOR: All these birds come to Estero Llano Grande
because there is a lot of different habitat in
a little bit of area.
- MARCY: We have shallow wetlands, deep wetlands,
woodlands, thorn scrub.
- The diverse habitat brings in the diverse species,
and that's real important to have here in South Texas.
Diversity begets diversity.
- GUIDE: This is the Fulvous compared to the black bellied
which we saw a lot of.
- What have we seen today?
Black-bellied whistling ducks, black necked stilts,
beautiful views of the Sora today.
For us eastern birders, these are southern specialties.
- NARRATOR: Not all of the residents of Estero Llano Grande
have wings.
The birds share the space with a variety of animals,
some slow, some slithery, and some substantially sizable.
- Yes we do have a few alligators.
And they are a major attraction and we're hoping
that really pulls in some of the locals because they're
really interested and often come to see the alligators
and walk out in the park.
- GUIDE: We do have a family of alligators that live out here,
two adults...
- KYLE: So many people in The Valley haven't heard
of this park.
It's often that you forget about the things that are
closer to you, and you travel to go see amazing things.
- LAUREL: And they'll be swimming out here,
getting some air...
- KYLE: We're starting to teach them by these school groups,
they're quite amazed at what is right here
in their back yard.
There's something for everybody here at our park.
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[birds chirping]
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