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Birds
and
Other Wildlife
during the Focus On Nature Tours
in Arizona
&
Sonora, Mexico
in the summer of 2010
Dates:
August 18 - September 4, 2010
Codes:
AZ 1: in northern & central Arizona, Aug
18-24
MX: in Sonora, northern Mexico, Aug 25-29
AZ 2: in southern & central Arizona, Aug 29-Sep 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
Links:
A List &
Photo Gallery of Arizona Birds, in 2 parts:
Part
#1: Quails to Becard
Part
#2: Flycatchers to Buntings
In these lists of birds and mammals, scientific names
are given & subspecies are noted.
Arizona
Mammals
(with some photos) North
American Mammals
A list of Mammals & Other Wildlife during this August-September
2010 Arizona & Mexico FONT Tours
follows the bird-list below.
Upcoming
North American Birding & Nature Tours
Bird-List:
- Scaled Quail - AZ 2
- Gambel's Quail - AZ 1,2
MX
- "Masked" Northern Bobwhite -
AZ 2 (in captivity: breeding program for reintroduction)
- Canada Goose - AZ 1
- Mallard - AZ 1
- Mexican Duck - AZ 2 MX
- Northern Pintail - AZ 1,2
- Northern Shoveler - AZ 1
- Gadwall - MX
- American Wigeon - AZ 2
- Blue-winged Teal - AZ 1
- Green-winged Teal - AZ 1,2
- Redhead - AZ 1
- Lesser Scaup - AZ 2
- Ruddy Duck - AZ 1
- Least Grebe - MX
- Pied-billed Grebe - AZ 1
- Black-necked (or Eared) Grebe -
AZ 1
- Clark's Grebe - AZ 1
- American White Ibis - MX
- White-faced Ibis - AZ 1
- Great Blue Heron - AZ 1
MX
- Great Egret - AZ 1 MX
- Snowy Egret - AZ 1 MX
- Tricolored Heron - MX
- Reddish Egret - MX
- Green Heron - AZ 1,2 MX
- Black-crowned Night-Heron - AZ 1,2
MX
- Magnificent Frigatebird - MX
- Brown Pelican - MX
- Blue-footed Booby - MX
- Brown Booby - MX
- Neotropic Cormorant - MX
- Double-crested Cormorant - AZ
1 MX
- California Condor (t1) (NAr)
- AZ 1
- Turkey Vulture - AZ
1,2 MX
- Black Vulture - MX
- Northern Crested Caracara - MX
- American Kestrel - AZ
1,2 MX
- Prairie Falcon - AZ 1
- Osprey - AZ 1 MX
- White-tailed Kite - AZ 2
- Bald Eagle - AZ 1
- Common Black Hawk - AZ 1
- Gray Hawk - AZ 2 MX
- Zone-tailed Hawk - AZ 1
- Swainson's Hawk - AZ 1,2
- Short-tailed Hawk - AZ 2
- Red-tailed Hawk - AZ 1,2
MX
- Virginia Rail - AZ 2
- Sora - AZ 2
- Common Moorhen - AZ 1
- American Coot - AZ 1,2 MX
- American Oystercatcher - MX
- Black-necked Stilt - AZ 1,2 MX
- Black-bellied (or Grey) Plover
- MX
- Wilson's Plover - MX
- Killdeer - AZ 1,2 MX
- American Avocet - AZ 2
- Greater Yellowlegs - AZ 1,2
- Lesser Yellowlegs - AZ
1,2 MX
- Solitary Sandpiper - AZ 1,2
MX
- Spotted Sandpiper - AZ 1
MX
- Willet - AZ 1 MX
- "American" Whimbrel -
MX
- Long-billed Curlew - AZ 2
MX
- Marbled Godwit - MX
- Ruddy Turnstone - MX
- Sanderling - MX
- Western Sandpiper - AZ
1,2 MX
- Baird's Sandpiper - AZ 1,2
- Least Sandpiper - AZ 1,2
- Pectoral Sandpiper - AZ 1
- Stilt Sandpiper - AZ 1
- Long-billed Dowitcher - AZ
1 MX
- Wilson's Phalarope - AZ
1,2 MX
- Laughing Gull - MX
- Heermann's Gull - MX
- "American" Herring Gull
- MX
- Yellow-footed Gull - MX
- Royal Tern - MX
- Elegant Tern (nt) - MX
- Common Tern - MX
- Forster's Tern - MX
- Least Tern - MX
- Black Tern - MX
- Band-tailed Pigeon - AZ 2
- Common (or Feral) Pigeon (NAi)
- AZ 1,2 MX
- Eurasian Collared Dove (NAi) -
AZ 1,2 MX
- White-winged Dove - AZ
1,2 MX
- Mourning Dove - AZ 1,2 MX
- Inca Dove - AZ 1 MX
- Common Ground Dove - AZ 2
MX
- Rosy-faced (or Peach-faced) Lovebird
(NAi) - AZ 2
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo - AZ
2 MX
- Greater Roadrunner - AZ
1,2 MX
- Western Screech Owl - AZ 2
- Elf Owl - MX
- Common Poorwill - MX
- Buff-collared Nightjar - MX
- Common Nighthawk - AZ 1
- Lesser Nighthawk - AZ 1
- Lucifer Sheartail (or Hummingbird)
- AZ 2
- Violet-crowned Hummingbird (NAr)
- AZ 2
- Berylline Hummingbird (NAr)
- AZ 2 MX
- Broad-billed Hummingbird - AZ 2
- White-eared Hummingbird (NAr)
- AZ 2
- Blue-throated Mountain-gem (or Hummingbird)
- AZ 2
- "Rivoli's" Magnificent Hummingbird
- AZ 2
- Anna's Hummingbird - AZ 1,2
- Costa's-Anna's hybrid - AZ 2
- Costa's Hummingbird - AZ 2
- Black-chinned Hummingbird -
AZ 2
- Calliope Hummingbird - AZ 2
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird - AZ
1,2
- Rufous Hummingbird - AZ 1,2
- Elegant Trogon - MX
- Acorn Woodpecker - AZ 1,2
MX
- Gila Woodpecker - AZ 1,2
MX
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker - AZ
1,2
- Arizona Woodpecker - AZ 2
(was conspecific
with what's now the Strickland's Woodpecker in Mexico)
- Hairy Woodpecker - AZ 1
- "Red-shafted" Northern Flicker - AZ
1
- Greater Pewee - AZ 2
- Olive-sided Flycatcher (nt)
- AZ 1 MX
- Western Wood Pewee - AZ
1,2 MX
- Cordilleran Flycatcher - AZ 2
- Gray Flycatcher - AZ 1
- Hammond's Flycatcher - AZ
2
- Black Phoebe - AZ 1,2 MX
- Say's Phoebe - AZ 1,2
- Vermilion Flycatcher - AZ
2 MX
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher - AZ
2 MX
- Ash-throated Flycatcher - AZ 2
- Brown-crested Flycatcher - AZ
1,2 MX
- Tropical Kingbird - AZ 2
MX
- Western Kingbird - AZ 1,2
MX
- Cassin's Kingbird - AZ 2
MX
- Loggerhead Shrike - AZ 1
- Bell's Vireo (nt) - MX
- Plumbeous Vireo - AZ 1
- Hutton's Vireo - AZ 2
- Warbling Vireo - AZ 1,2
- Steller's Jay - AZ 1
- Western Scrub Jay - AZ 1
- Mexican Jay - AZ 2
- Pinyon Jay - AZ 1
- American Crow - AZ 1
- Northern Raven - AZ 1,2
MX
- Chihuahuan Raven - AZ 2
MX
- Phainopepla - AZ 1,2 MX
- Mexican Chickadee - AZ 2
- Mountain Chickadee - AZ 1
- Bridled Titmouse - AZ 2
MX
- Juniper Titmouse - AZ 1
- Verdin - AZ 1,2 MX
- Purple Martin - AZ 2 MX
- Mangrove Swallow - MX
- Violet-green Swallow - AZ 1
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow -
AZ 1,2 MX
- American Cliff Swallow - AZ
1,2 MX
- Barn Swallow - AZ 1,2 MX
- American Bushtit - AZ 1,2
- Horned Lark - AZ 1
MX
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet - AZ 2
- Cactus Wren - AZ
1,2 MX
- Bewick's Wren - AZ 1
- Sinaloa Wren (has been called
Bar-vented Wren) - MX
- Rock Wren - AZ 1 MX
- Canyon Wren - MX
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - AZ
1 MX
- Black-tailed Gnatcatcher - MX
- White-breasted Nuthatch - AZ
1,2
- Pygmy Nuthatch - AZ 1,2
- Brown Creeper - AZ 2
- Western Bluebird - AZ 1
- Hermit Thrush - AZ 1
- American Robin - AZ 1,2
- Northern Mockingbird - AZ
1,2 MX
- Curve-billed Thrasher - AZ
1,2 MX
- LeConte's Thrasher -
AZ 1,2
- European Starling (NAi) -
AZ 1,2 MX
- House Sparrow (NAi) - AZ
1,2 MX
- Olive Warbler - AZ 2
- Lesser Goldfinch - AZ 1,2
MX
- American Goldfinch - AZ 1,2
- House Finch - AZ 1,2 MX
- Red Crossbill - AZ 1
- Nashville Warbler - AZ
1,2 MX
- Yellow Warbler - AZ 1,2
MX
- "Audubon's" Yellow-rumped
Warbler - AZ 1
- Black-throated Gray Warbler -
AZ 2
- Townsend's Warbler - AZ 2
- Grace's Warbler - AZ 1,2
- Painted Whitestart (has been called
Painted Redstart) - AZ 2
- MacGillivray's Warbler - AZ 1
- Wilson's Warbler - AZ 1,2
- Rufous-capped Warbler - MX
- Yellow-breasted Chat - AZ 2
- Great-tailed Grackle - AZ
1,2 MX
- Red-winged Blackbird - AZ
1,2 MX
- Yellow-headed Blackbird - AZ 1
- Brewer's Blackbird - AZ
1
- Brown-headed Cowbird - AZ
1,2 MX
- "Lillian's" Eastern Meadowlark
- AZ 2
- Western Meadowlark - AZ 2
- Scott's Oriole - MX
- Hooded Oriole - AZ 2 MX
- Spotted Towhee - AZ 2
- Canyon Towhee - AZ 2 MX
- Abert's Towhee - AZ 1.2
- Rufous-crowned Sparrow - AZ
2 MX
- Cassin's Sparrow - AZ 2
- Botteri's Sparrow - MX
- Chipping Sparrow - AZ 1
- Clay-colored Sparrow - MX
- Brewer's Sparrow - AZ 1,2
- Black-chinned Sparrow - AZ 2
- Black-throated Sparrow - AZ
1,2 MX
- Savannah Sparrow - AZ 1
- Vesper Sparrow - AZ 1,2
- Lark Bunting - AZ 2
- Lark Sparrow - AZ 1,2
- Song Sparrow - AZ 2
- "Mexican" Yellow-eyed Junco
- AZ 2
- Summer Tanager - MX
- Western Tanager - AZ 1 MX
- Northern Cardinal - AZ
1,2 MX
- Pyrrhuloxia - AZ 1
- Black-headed Grosbeak - AZ 1,2
- Blue Grosbeak - AZ 2 MX
- Lazuli Bunting - AZ 1,2
- Varied Bunting - MX
Mammals & Other
Wildlife
during the FONT
August-September 2010 Tour
in Arizona & northern Mexico (in Sonora)
- Gunnison's Prairie Dog - AZ 1
- Round-tailed Ground Squirrel - AZ
2
- Rock Squirrel
- AZ 1,2 MX
- Arizona Gray Squirrel - AZ 1,2
- Mexican Fox Squirrel - AZ 2
- Least Chipmunk - AZ 1
- Uinta Chipmunk - AZ 1
- Botta's Pocket Gopher - MX
- Merriam's Kangaroo Rat - MX
- White-throated Woodrat - AZ 1
- Bobcat - AZ 2
- Coyote - MX
- Striped Skunk - AZ 2 (rk)
- Desert Cottontail - AZ 1,2
- Eastern Cottontail - AZ 2
- Antelope Jackrabbit - MX
- Black-tailed Jackrabbit - AZ 2
- Mule Deer - AZ 1
- "Coue's" White-tailed Deer
- AZ 2
- Pronghorn - AZ 1
- Southwestern Myotis - MX
- Western Pipistrelle - MX
- California Sea Lion - MX
(rk): roadkill
- lizards - AZ 1,2 MX
- bullfrog - AZ 1,2
- snakes - MX
- Western Box Turtle - AZ 2
- various butterflies (to be in a separate
list) - AZ 1,2 MX