South Texas is home to some of the top birding hotspots in the nation. One of these hotspots, the National Butterfly Center, normally hosts a few rarities including Audubon's Orioles, Groovebilled Anis, and Northern Beardless Tyrannulets. We met up with our friend Ryan Rodriguez in order to try to find some of the birds.

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Thanks to Terry Sohl for allowing us to use his range maps
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Audubon's Oriole in cover image by Andy Reago and Chrissy McClarren (CC by 2.0, edited)

Northern Beardless Tyrannulet in cover image and at 1:15 by Alan Schmierer (Public Domain, edited)

Northern Beardless Tyrannulet at 5:22 by Ryan Rodriguez (used with permission)

Groovebilled Ani by Becky Matsubara (CC by 2.0, edited)

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