Mural #2                                                                                    608 1st Street
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Marsh Menagerie

  The Palacios area is littered with picturesque marshes and shoreline filled with exotic water fowl.  Palacios is a Birdwatcher's Paradise.
  The Palacios area hosts 21 birding sites listed on TP&W's "Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail" map.  Over 300 species have been spotted and recorded in the area.  Birds identified in this mural are:

Night Heron Sandhill Crane Magnificent Frigate Snowy Egret
Killdeer Mottled Duck Roseate Spoonbill Wood Stork
Great Egret Brown Pelican Laughing Gull Great Blue Heron
White Ibis Plover Tern Reddish Egret