Corpus Christi HawkWatch

Corpus Christi HawkWatch is a fall raptor migration count site in Hazel Bazemore County Park, on the Nueces River near Calallen, about 17 miles west of Corpus Christi, Texas. HawkWatch International has run the count since taking it over from volunteers in 1997. The count runs from August 1 to November 15 each year, and seasonal totals have ranged from about 445,000 to more than 1,000,000 migrating raptors. Broad-winged hawks make up 88 to 98 percent of the annual total; Mississippi kites, Swainson's hawks and swallow-tailed kites are also recorded. Texas Parks and Wildlife gives an average raptor count of 700,000 each fall, with the peak at the end of September.

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