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:

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


Mammals during our
July '05 Tour in Arizona

  1. Round-tailed Ground Squirrel 
  2. Harris's Antelope Squirrel 
  3. Rock Squirrel  
  4. Apache, or Mexican, Fox Squirrel 
  5. Arizona Gray Squirrel 
  6. Bailey's Pocket Mouse 
  7. White-throated Woodrat 
  8. White-nosed Coati 
  9. Striped Skunk  
  10. Western Spotted Skunk 
  11. Coyote 
  12. Desert Cottontail 
  13. Black-tailed Jackrabbit 
  14. Antelope Jackrabbit 
  15. Pronghorn 
  16. White-tailed Deer 
  17. Mule Deer 
  18. Black Bear (the one we saw was brown)