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Birds and Other Wildlife 
during the Focus On Nature Tour 
in southern Arizona
& Sonora, Mexico 

in the summer of 2008 

Dates:

August  28 - September 4, 2008


Codes:

AZ:  during the southern Arizona portion of the tour, Aug 28-Sep 2
MX: during the northern Mexico portion of the tour, Sep 2-4
  
(t): a globally threatened or rare species, designated by Birdlife International
     (t1): critical     (t2): endangered     (t3): vulnerable
(nt): a near-threatened species globally

(NA:vr):  very rare in North America
(NAr):     rare in North America
(AZr):     rare in Arizona
(MXe):   normally endemic to Mexico 

(NAi):    introduced species in North America

PHOTO AT UPPER RIGHT: a female BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD, one of numerous hummingbirds seen during the tour

The following list compiled by Armas Hill, leader of the tour

Cummulative List of Birds during FONT Arizona Tours

Arizona  Mammals      Arizona Butterflies      Arizona Dragonflies & Damselflies

Arizona Amphibians & Reptiles      Desert Plants 

A list of Mammals & Other Wildlife during this August-September '08 Arizona & Mexico Tour follows the bird-list below. 

Upcoming North American Birding & Nature Tours

1. Gambel's Quail  -  AZ
   
   
2. Montezuma Quail  -  MX
   
   
3. Elegant Quail  -  MX
   
   
4. Mallard  -  AZ 
   
   
5. Mexican Duck  -  AZ,MX
   
   
6. Northern Shoveler  -  AZ
   
   
7. Cinnamon Teal  -  AZ
   
   
8. Ruddy Duck  -  AZ
   
   
9. Black-necked (or Eared) Grebe  -  AZ
   
   
10. White-faced Ibis  -  AZ 
    
    
11. Great Blue Heron  -  AZ,MX
    
    
12. Snowy Egret  -  AZ
    
    
13. Black-crowned Night-Heron  -  AZ  
    
    
14. Turkey Vulture  -  AZ,MX
    
    
15. Black Vulture  -  AZ,MX
    
    
16. American Kestrel  -  AZ,MX
    
    
17. Osprey  (AZr)  -  AZ
    
    
18. White-tailed Kite -  AZ 
    
     
19. Northern Harrier  -  AZ
    
    
20. Cooper's Hawk  -  AZ,MX
    
    
21. Gray Hawk  -  AZ
    
    
22. Zone-tailed Hawk  -  MX
    
    
23. Swainson's Hawk  -  MX
    
    
24. Red-tailed Hawk  -  MX
    
    
25. American Coot  -  AZ,MX
    
    
26. Killdeer  -  AZ
    
    
27. American Avocet  -  AZ
    
    
28. Solitary Sandpiper  -  AZ 
    
    
29. Baird's Sandpiper  -  AZ
    
    
30. Least Sandpiper  -  AZ
    
    
31. Wilson's Phalarope  -  AZ
    
    
32. Black Tern  -  AZ
    
    
33. Band-tailed Pigeon  -  AZ
    
    
34. Common (or Feral) Pigeon (NAi)  -  AZ,MX
    
    
35. Eurasian Collared-Dove (NAi)  -  AZ,MX
    
    
36. White-winged Dove  -  AZ,MX
    
    
37. Mourning Dove  -  AZ,MX
    
    
38. Inca Dove  -  AZ
    
    
39. Common Ground Dove  -  MX
    
    
40. Yellow-billed Cuckoo  -  AZ,MX
    
    
41. Greater Roadrunner  -  AZ,MX
    
    
42. Great Horned Owl  -  AZ
    
    
43. Elf Owl  -  MX
    
    
44. Common Poorwill  -  AZ,MX
    
    
45. Lesser Nighthawk  -  MX
    
    
46. Lucifer Sheartail (or Hummingbird)  -  AZ
    
    
47. Violet-crowned Hummingbird  (NAr)  -  AZ
    
    
48. Broad-billed Hummingbird  -  AZ
    
    
49. White-eared Hummingbird  (NAr)  -  AZ
    
    
50. Blue-throated Mountain-gem (or Hummingbird)  -  AZ 
    
    
51. "Rivoli's" Magnificent Hummingbird  -  AZ 
    
    
52. Anna's Hummingbird  -  AZ
    
    
53. Black-chinned Hummingbird  (PHOTO AT TOP OF THIS LIST)  -  AZ,MX
    
    
54. Calliope Hummingbird  -  AZ
    
    
55. Broad-tailed Hummingbird  -  AZ
    
    
56. Allen's Hummingbird  -  AZ
    
    
57. Rufous Hummingbird  -  AZ
    
    
58. Acorn Woodpecker  -  AZ,MX
    
    
59. Gila Woodpecker  -  AZ,MX
    
    
60. Ladder-backed Woodpecker  -  AZ,MX
    
    
61. Arizona Woodpecker  -  AZ
    (was conspecific with what's now the Strickland's Woodpecker in Mexico)  
    
    
62. Gilded Flicker  -  AZ
    
    
63. Rose-throated Becard  -  MX
    
    
64. Western Wood Pewee  -  AZ,MX
    
    
65. Willow Flycatcher  -  MX
     
    
66. Black Phoebe  -  AZ,MX
    
    
67. Say's Phoebe  -  AZ,MX
    
    
68. Vermilion Flycatcher  -  AZ,MX
    
    
69. Dusky-capped Flycatcher  -  AZ
    
    
70. Ash-throated Flycatcher  -  AZ
    
    
71. Thick-billed Kingbird  -  AZ,MX 
    
    
72. Tropical Kingbird  -  MX
    
     
73. Western Kingbird  -  AZ,MX
    
    
74. Cassin's Kingbird  -  AZ
    
    
75. Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher  -  MX
    
    
76. Bell's Vireo  -  MX
    
    
77. Yellow-throated Vireo  (AZr)  -  AZ 
    
    
78. Plumbeous Vireo  -  MX 
    
    
79. Steller's Jay  -  AZ
    
    
80. Mexican Jay  -  AZ,MX
    
    
81. Northern Raven  -  AZ,MX
    
    
82. Chihuahuan Raven  -  AZ
    
    
83. Phainopepla  -  AZ
    
    
84. Mexican Chickadee  -  AZ
    
    
85. Bridled Titmouse  -  AZ.MX
    
    
86. Juniper Titmouse  -  AZ
    
    
87. Violet-green Swallow  -  AZ
    
    
88. American Cliff Swallow  -  MX
    
    
89. Barn Swallow  -  AZ,MX
    
    
90. Horned Lark  -  AZ 
    
    
91. Cactus Wren  -   AZ
    
    
92. Bewick's Wren  -  AZ
    
    
93. SINALOA WREN  (has been called Bar-vented Wren)  (MXe)  (AZr)  -  AZ,MX  (in Arizona, this bird was a "first" for the US, where we were fortunate to both see & hear it) 
    
    
94. Rock Wren  -  MX
    
    
95. Canyon Wren  -  MX
    
    
96. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  -  AZ,MX
    
    
97. Red-breasted Nuthatch  -  AZ
    
    
98. White-breasted Nuthatch  -  AZ
    
    
99. Pygmy Nuthatch  -  AZ
    
    
100. Brown Creeper  -  AZ
     
     
101. Northern Mockingbird  -  AZ
     
     
102. Curve-billed Thrasher  -  AZ,MX
     
     
103. Crissal Thrasher  -  AZ  
     
     
104. European Starling  (NAi)  -  AZ
     
     
105. American Robin  -  AZ
     
     
106. House Sparrow (NAi)  -  AZ
     
     
107. Lesser Goldfinch  -  AZ,MX
     
     
108. Pine Siskin  -  AZ
     
     
109. House Finch  -  AZ
     
     
110. Red Crossbill  -  AZ
     
     
111. Northern Parula  (AZr)  -  AZ  
     
     
112. Nashville Warbler  -  AZ
     
     
113. American Yellow Warbler  -  AZ,MX
     
     
114. Black-throated Gray Warbler  -  AZ
     
     
115. Hermit Warbler  -  AZ
     
     
116. Painted Whitestart  (has been called Painted Redstart)  -  AZ
      
     
117. MacGillivray's Warbler  -  AZ
     
     
118. Wilson's Warbler  -  AZ,MX
     
     
119. Rufous-capped Warbler  -  MX  
     
     
120. Yellow-breasted Chat  -  AZ
     
     
121. Great-tailed Grackle  -  AZ,MX
     
     
122. Bronzed Cowbird  - MX
     
     
123. Brown-headed Cowbird  -  AZ,MX
     
     
124. "Lillian's" Eastern Meadowlark  -  AZ
     
     
125. Rufous-crowned Sparrow  -  AZ,MX
     
     
126. Rufous-winged Sparrow  -  AZ,MX
     
     
127. Cassin's Sparrow  -  AZ
     
     
128. Botteri's Sparrow  -  AZ,MX
     
     
129. Black-throated Sparrow  -  AZ
     
     
130. Grasshopper Sparrow  -  AZ
     
     
131. Savannah Sparrow  -  AZ
     
     
132. Vesper Sparrow  -  AZ
     
     
133. Lark Bunting  -  MX
     
     
134. Lark Sparrow  -  AZ
     
     
135. Song Sparrow  -  AZ
     
     
136. "Mexican" Yellow-eyed Junco  -  AZ
     
     
137. Canyon Towhee  -  AZ,MX
     
     
138. Summer Tanager  -  MX
     
     
139. Western Tanager  -  AZ
     
     
140. Northern Cardinal  -  AZ,MX
     
     
141. Pyrrhuloxia  -  MX
     
     
142. Black-headed Grosbeak  -  AZ
     
     
143. Blue Grosbeak  -  AZ,MX
     
     
144. Lazuli Bunting  - AZ
     
     
145. Varied Bunting  -  MX 
     
     

1. Round-tailed Ground Squirrel  -  AZ
   
   
2. Harris's Antelope Squirrel  -  AZ
   
   
3. Rock Squirrel  -  MX
   
   
4. Arizona Gray Squirrel  -  AZ
   
   
5. Mexican Fox Squirrel  -  AZ
   
    
6. Bailey's Pocket Mouse  -  AZ
   
   
7. Ord's Kangaroo Rat  -  AZ
   
   
8. Gray Fox  -  AZ
   
   
9. Coyote -  MX
   
   
10. Striped Skunk  -  AZ
    
     
11. Desert Cottontail  -  AZ
    
     
12. Eastern Cottontail  -  AZ.MX
    
    
13. Antelope Jackrabbit  -  AZ,MX
    
    
14. Black-tailed Jackrabbit  -  AZ
    
    
15. "Coue's" White-tailed Deer  -  AZ,MX 
    
    
16. Mule Deer  -  AZ
    
    
17. Pronghorn  -  AZ
    
    
18. Western Pipistrelle  -  AZ,MX
    
    
19. Mexican Free-tailed Bat  -  AZ 
    
    
20. Mexican Long-tongued Bat  -  AZ
    
    
21. North American Long-nosed Bat  -  AZ
    
    
    
    
22. Yarrow's Spiny Lizard  -  AZ
    
    
23. Green Ratsnake  -  MX
    
    
24. White-lined Sphinx-Moth  -  AZ
    
    
25. various butterflies (to be in a separate list)  -  AZ,MX