Birds found during our
Birding & Nature Tour
in Arizona
in 2005
July 22-31
List compiled by Armas Hill
Codes:
(t): a globally threatened or rare
species, designated by Birdlife International
(t1): critical (t2): endangered (t3): vulnerable
(nt): a near-threatened species globally
(r/NA): rare in North America
(i): introduced species
Links:
Cummulative
List of Birds during our Arizona Tours
In cumulative lists of birds, scientific names
are given & subspecies are noted.
List
of Mammals during Previous Arizona Tours
North
American Mammals
A list of Mammals during our April-May '05 Texas tour
follows the bird-list below.
Upcoming
North American Birding & Nature Tours
Bird-List:
- Least Grebe
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Brown Pelican
- Great Blue Heron
- Black-crowned Night-Heron
- White-faced Ibis
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
- Mallard
- "Mexican Duck" (form of the Mallard)
- Ruddy Duck
- Turkey Vulture
- Black Vulture
- Cooper's Hawk
- Northern Goshawk
- Harris's Hawk (also called Bay-winged
Hawk)
- Gray Hawk
- Zone-tailed Hawk
- Short-tailed Hawk
- Swainson's Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- American Kestrel
- "Masked Bobwhite" (a rare,
distinctive form of the Northern Bobwhite)
- Scaled Quail
- Gambel's Quail
- Wild Turkey
- Common Moorhen/Gallinule
- American Coot
- Killdeer
- American Avocet
- Black-necked Stilt
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Western Sandpiper
- Least Sandpiper
- Baird's Sandpiper
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Wilson's Phalarope
- Forster's Tern
- Band-tailed Pigeon
- Feral (or Rock) Pigeon (i)
- Eurasian Collared-Dove (i)
- White-winged Dove
- Mourning Dove
- Inca Dove
- Common Ground Dove
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Greater Roadrunner
- Barn Owl
- Great Horned Owl
- Elf Owl
- Flammulated (Scops-) Owl
- Lesser Nighthawk
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Poorwill
- "Mexican" Whip-poor-will
- Lucifer Hummingbird (r/NA)
- Violet-crowned Hummingbird
(r/NA)
- Broad-billed Hummingbird
- White-eared Hummingbird (r/NA)
- Blue-throated Hummingbird
- Magnificent (or Rivoli's) Hummingbird
- Anna's Hummingbird
- Costa's Hummingbird
- Black-chinned Hummingbird (PHOTO AT TOP OF THIS LIST)
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird
- Allen's Hummingbird
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Elegant Trogon (was at one time called
Coppery-tailed Trogon)
- Acorn Woodpecker
- Gila Woodpecker
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker
- Arizona Woodpecker (formerly conspecific
with what's now called Strickland's Woodpecker in Mexico)
- Northen ("Red-shafted")
Flicker
- Rose-throated Becard (r/NA)
- Northern Beardless Tyrannulet
- Greater Pewee (was at one time called
Coue's Flycatcher)
- Western Wood-Pewee
- Cordilleran Flycatcher
- Buff-breasted Flycatcher
- Black Phoebe
- Say's Phoebe
- Vermilion Flycatcher
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Brown-crested Flycatcher
- Thick-billed Kingbird (r/NA)
- Tropical Kingbird (r/NA)
- Western Kingbird
- Cassin's Kingbird
- Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Bell's Vireo
- Gray Vireo
- Hutton's Vireo
- Plumbeous (formerly part of Solitary)
Vireo
- Purple Martin
- Tree Swallow
- Violet-green Swallow
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Cliff Swallow
- Barn Swallow
- Horned Lark
- Western Scrub-Jay
- Mexican (or Gray-breasted) Jay
- Northern/Common Raven
- Chihuahuan Raven
- Mexican Chickadee
- Bridled Titmouse
- Verdin
- (Common) Bushtit
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Pygmy Nuthatch
- Brown Creeper
- Cactus Wren
- House Wren (the "Brown-throated
Wren", formerly considered a distinct species)
- Bewick's Wren
- Rock Wren
- Canyon Wren
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- Eastern Bluebird
- American Robin
- Hermit Thrush
- Northern Mockingbird
- Bendire's Thrasher
- Curve-billed Thrasher
- Crissal Thrasher
- European Starling (i)
- Phainopepla
- Lucy's Warbler
- Yellow Warbler
- Black-throated Gray Warbler
- Grace's Warbler
- Painted Redstart (or Whitestart)
- Common Yellowthroat
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Northern Hepatic Tanager
- Summer Tanager
- Western Tanager
- Eastern (or "Lillian's") Meadowlark
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Bronzed Cowbird
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Hooded Oriole
- Bullock's Oriole
- Scott's Oriole
- Spotted Towhee
- Canyon Towhee
- Abert's Towhee
- Botteri's Sparrow
- Cassin's Sparrow
- Rufous-crowned Sparrow
- Five-striped Sparrow (r/NA)
- Black-throated Sparrow
- Chipping Sparrow
- Grasshopper Sparrow
- Lark Bunting
- Lark Sparrow
- Song Sparrow
- "Mexican" Yellow-eyed Junco
- Northern Cardinal
- Pyrrhuloxia
- Black-headed Grosbeak
- Blue Grosbeak
- Lazuli Bunting
- Indigo Bunting
- Varied Bunting
- Painted Bunting
- House Finch
- Lesser Goldfinch
- House Sparrow (i)
Mammals during our
July
'05 Tour in Arizona
- Round-tailed Ground Squirrel
- Harris's Antelope Squirrel
- Rock Squirrel
- Apache, or Mexican, Fox Squirrel
- Arizona Gray Squirrel
- Bailey's Pocket Mouse
- White-throated Woodrat
- White-nosed Coati
- Striped Skunk
- Western Spotted Skunk
- Coyote
- Desert Cottontail
- Black-tailed Jackrabbit
- Antelope Jackrabbit
-
Pronghorn
- White-tailed Deer
- Mule Deer
- Black Bear (the one we saw was brown)