Birds found during our 
Birding & Nature Tour 
in Arizona

in 2006 


Dates:

August 12-20


Codes:

(t): a globally threatened or rare species, designated by Birdlife International
     (t1): critical     (t2): endangered     (t3): vulnerable
(nt): a near-threatened species globally
(NAr): rare in North America
(AZr): rare in Arizona
(i): introduced species

PHOTO AT UPPER RIGHT: a male BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD

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

Upcoming North American Birding & Nature Tours

1. Eared Grebe
2. Pied-billed Grebe
3. Brown Pelican 
4. Great Blue Heron 
5. Great Egret
6. Tricolored Heron
7. Green Heron
8. Black-crowned Night-Heron  
9. White-faced Ibis 
10. Wood Duck 
11. Mallard 
12. "Mexican Duck" (form of the Mallard)
13. Blue-winged Teal
14. American Green-winged Teal 
15. Ruddy Duck 
16. Turkey Vulture 
17. White-tailed Kite 
18. Cooper's Hawk 
19. Harris's Hawk  (also called Bay-winged Hawk) 
20. Gray Hawk 
21. Zone-tailed Hawk 
22. Swainson's Hawk 
23. Red-tailed Hawk 
24. American Kestrel 
25. Prairie Falcon
26. "Masked Bobwhite" (a rare, distinctive form of the Northern Bobwhite) 
27. Montezuma Quail
28. Scaled Quail 
29. Gambel's Quail 
30. Sora 
31. Common Moorhen/Gallinule 
32. American Coot 
33. Killdeer 
34. American Avocet 
35. Black-necked Stilt 
36. Greater Yellowlegs
37. Lesser Yellowlegs 
38. Willet
39. Spotted Sandpiper 
40. Western Sandpiper 
41. Least Sandpiper 
42. Stilt Sandpiper
43. Wilson's Phalarope 
44. Black Tern 
45. Band-tailed Pigeon 
46. Feral (or Rock) Pigeon (i) 
47. Eurasian Collared-Dove (i) 
48. White-winged Dove 
49. Mourning Dove 
50. Inca Dove 
51. Common Ground Dove 
52. Yellow-billed Cuckoo 
53. Greater Roadrunner 
54. Barn Owl 
55. Great Horned Owl 
56. Burrowing Owl
57. Elf Owl 
58. Lesser Nighthawk 
59. Common Nighthawk 
60. White-throated Swift
61. Lucifer Hummingbird  (r/NA) 
62. Violet-crowned Hummingbird  (r/NA) 
63. Berylline Hummingbird  (r/NA)
64. Broad-billed Hummingbird 
65. White-eared Hummingbird  (r/NA) 
66. Blue-throated Hummingbird 
67. Magnificent (or Rivoli's) Hummingbird 
68. Anna's Hummingbird 
69. Costa's Hummingbird 
70. Black-chinned Hummingbird  (PHOTO AT TOP OF THIS LIST)  
71. Calliope Hummingbird
72. Broad-tailed Hummingbird 
73. Allen's Hummingbird 
74. Rufous Hummingbird 
75. Elegant Trogon (was at one time called Coppery-tailed Trogon) 
76. Acorn Woodpecker 
77. Gila Woodpecker 
78. Hairy Woodpecker 
79. Ladder-backed Woodpecker 
80. Arizona Woodpecker (formerly conspecific with what's now called Strickland's Woodpecker in Mexico)  
81. Northen ("Red-shafted") Flicker  
82. Greater Pewee (was at one time called Coue's Flycatcher)  
83. Olive-sided Flycatcher
84. Western Wood-Pewee 
85. Cordilleran Flycatcher
86. Willow Flycatcher
87. Gray Flycatcher
88. Buff-breasted Flycatcher 
89. Black Phoebe 
90. Say's Phoebe 
91. Vermilion Flycatcher 
92. Dusky-capped Flycatcher 
93. Ash-throated Flycatcher 
94. Brown-crested Flycatcher 
95. Thick-billed Kingbird  (r/NA) 
96. Tropical Kingbird (r/NA) 
97. Western Kingbird 
98. Cassin's Kingbird 
99. Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher 
100. Loggerhead Shrike 
101. White-eyed Vireo  (r/AZ)
102. Bell's Vireo 
103. Hutton's Vireo 
104. Plumbeous (formerly part of Solitary) Vireo 
105. Violet-green Swallow 
106. Northern Rough-winged Swallow  
107. Cliff Swallow 
108. Barn Swallow 
109. Horned Lark 
110. Steller's Jay
111. Western Scrub-Jay 
112. Mexican (or Gray-breasted) Jay 
113. Northern/Common Raven 
114. Chihuahuan Raven 
115. Mountain Chickadee
116. Mexican Chickadee 
117. Bridled Titmouse 
118. Juniper Titmouse 
119. Verdin 
120. (Common) Bushtit 
121. Red-breasted Nuthatch 
122. White-breasted Nuthatch 
123. Pygmy Nuthatch 
124. Brown Creeper 
125. Cactus Wren 
126. House Wren (the "Brown-throated Wren", formerly considered a distinct species)
127. Bewick's Wren 
128. Rock Wren 
129. Canyon Wren 
130. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 
131. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
132. Eastern Bluebird 
133. American Robin 
134. Hermit Thrush 
135. Northern Mockingbird 
136. Curve-billed Thrasher 
137. European Starling (i) 
138. Phainopepla 
139. Orange-crowned Warbler
140. Nashville Warbler
141. Virginia's Warbler 
142. Yellow Warbler 
143. "Audubon's" Yellow-rumped Warbler
144. Black-throated Gray Warbler 
145. Hermit Warbler
146. Grace's Warbler 
147. Painted Redstart (or Whitestart)
148. Red-faced Warbler 
149. Common Yellowthroat
150. Wilson's Warbler
151. Rufous-capped Warbler (r/NA) 
152. Yellow-breasted Chat 
153. Olive Warbler
154. Northern Hepatic Tanager 
155. Summer Tanager 
156. Western Tanager 
157. Eastern (or "Lillian's") Meadowlark 
158. Red-winged Blackbird 
159. Yellow-headed Blackbird 
160. Great-tailed Grackle 
161. Bronzed Cowbird 
162. Brown-headed Cowbird 
163. Hooded Oriole 
164. Bullock's Oriole 
165. Spotted Towhee 
166. Canyon Towhee 
167. Abert's Towhee
168. Botteri's Sparrow 
169. Cassin's Sparrow 
170. Rufous-crowned Sparrow 
171. Rufous-winged Sparrow  
172. Black-throated Sparrow 
173. Chipping Sparrow 
174. Grasshopper Sparrow 
175. Lark Bunting 
176. Lark Sparrow 
177. Song Sparrow 
178. "Mexican" Yellow-eyed Junco 
179. Northern Cardinal 
180. Pyrrhuloxia 
181. Black-headed Grosbeak 
182. Blue Grosbeak 
183. Lazuli Bunting 
184. Varied Bunting
185. Red Crossbill
186. House Finch 
187. Lesser Goldfinch 
188. House Sparrow (i)   

1. Red-spotted Toad
   
2. Woodhouse's Toad
   
3. Sonoran Desert Toad
   
4. Chiricahua Leopard Frog
   
5. American Bullfrog
   
6. Desert Tortoise
   
7. Common Side-blotched Lizard
   
8. Desert Spiny Lizard
   
9. Clark's Spiny Lizard
   
10. Yaqui Black-headed Snake
    
11. Gophersnake
    
12. Common Kingsnake (western black form)
    
13. Black-necked Garter Snake
    
14. Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake
    
15. Mohave Rattlesnake