A community resource built for birders who love the Rio Grande Valley — and the birds that call it home.
RGV Bird Guide is the ultimate online resource for birding in the Rio Grande Valley — helping local birders and visiting birders find target birds, discover the best hotspots, plan memorable trips, and connect with the RGV birding community.
The Rio Grande Valley is one of North America's most extraordinary birding destinations — a meeting place of tropical and temperate species found nowhere else in the United States. We believe every birder who visits or lives here deserves a tool built specifically for this place, powered by real-time data and local knowledge.
RGV Bird Guide is powered entirely by eBird data submitted by birders like you. Every checklist you submit makes the Rare Bird Chaser more accurate, improves the Top Hotspots rankings, and helps scientists track bird populations across the Rio Grande Valley.
The more checklists submitted in the RGV, the better this app works — for everyone. Submitting a checklist takes just a few minutes and your observations become part of one of the largest citizen science databases in the world.
Every bird you report in the RGV contributes to science, conservation, and the accuracy of this app. Download the free Merlin Bird ID app or submit directly at ebird.org.
Submit to eBird ↗Whether you're a local birder keeping tabs on what's active in Hidalgo County this week, or a visiting birder planning your first RGV trip to see the 47 specialty birds — this app is built for you.
RGV Bird Guide grows stronger with community involvement. Here are the ways you can help:
All bird sighting data displayed on RGV Bird Guide is sourced from the eBird API, provided by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. eBird is a real-time, online bird checklist program — the world's largest biodiversity-related citizen science project.
RGV Bird Guide uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the site — this includes page views, general location (country/region level), and device type. No personally identifiable information is collected.
We do not sell, share, or monetize any user data. The contact form collects only the information you voluntarily provide (name, email, message) which is used solely to respond to your inquiry.
RGV Bird Guide products are ad-free at this time. If advertising is introduced in the future this policy will be updated.
Have a question, bug report, feature idea, or want to discuss a partnership? We'd love to hear from you.