| Bird
| Latin Name
| Sighted
|
| Pied-billed Grebe |
Podilymbus podiceps |
Lake Cochise, Willcox (1) |
| Eared Grebe (our Black necked Grebe) |
Podiceps nigricollis |
Green Valley Sewage Ponds (1); Lake Cochise, Willcox (1) |
| Great Blue Heron |
Ardea herodias |
Río Rico; Kino Springs (1); Whitewater Draw (1); Willcox (6) |
| Great Egret |
Ardea alba |
Río Rico (1); Kino Springs (1) |
| Green Heron |
Butorides virescens |
Sweetwater Wetlands (several); San Pedro (2, incl. nest); St. David (1) |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron |
Nycticorax nycticorax |
Kino Springs (1); Willcox (1) |
| White-faced Ibis |
Plegadis chichi |
Río Rico (3 immatures); Sierra Vista Ponds (3);
Whitewater Draw (7+); Willcox (5) |
| Black Vulture |
Coragyps atratus |
Highway 86 to Sells (2); Arivaca (2); Nogales (4) |
| Cathartes aura |
Shannon-Broadway Desert and throughout, incl. Comfort Springs |
|
| Black-bellied Whistling-Duck |
Dendrocygna autumnalis |
Río Rico (2 pairs); Kino Springs (pair) |
| Ross’s Goose |
Chen rossii |
Green Valley Ponds (1, a first summer record for SE
Arizona |
| American Wigeon |
Anas americana |
Green Valley Ponds (1) |
| Mallard |
Anas platyrhynchos |
Sweetwater Wetlands (1green-headed male); “Mexican Duck” ssp form
birds at Sweetwater Wetlands (100-200); Green Valley (75); Kino Springs; Sierra Vista Ponds; St. David |
| Cinnamon Teal |
Anas cyanoptera |
Sweetwater Wetlands (6-7); Kino Springs; Whitewater Draw; Willcox |
| Redhead |
Aythya americana |
Willcox (1 in eclipse plumage) |
| Ruddy Duck |
Oxyura jamaicensis |
Sweetwater Wetlands (10); Green Valley (1); Kino Springs (6); Willcox (35)
|
| White-tailed Kite |
Elanus leucurus |
San Pedro River (hovering multiple times as it
hunted north of the San Pedro House) |
| Mississippi Kite |
Ictinia missippissiensis |
St. David (3 adults and 1 immature perched in big cottonwoods south of the Highway 80 Bridge) |
| Cooper’s Hawk |
Accipiter cooperii |
Río Rico (2); Arivaca; Portal; Cave Creek (immature with dead Mexican Jay in talons); Onion Saddle (another
immature) |
| Gray Hawk |
Asturina nitida |
Arivaca (adult & immature along the road and an adult
calling loudly at the cienega); Río Rico; Palo Duro Pond near
Nogales; St. David
|
| Harris’s Hawk |
Parabuteo unicinctus |
Sweetwater Wetlands (scope of 1 juvenile playing with pine cone & 1 adult); Willcox (1) |
| Short-tailed Hawk |
Buteo brachyurus |
Barfoot Road (2 soaring birds; species only colonized Arizona in 1999 & still very rare) |
| Swainson’s Hawk |
Buteo swainsoni |
Three Points (1); Arivaca (1 with 50 Turkey Vultures & 1 Zone-tailed Hawk); Sierra Vista (common); San Pedro River
(common, especially along Palominas Road); Apache; San Simon |
| Zone-tailed Hawk |
Buteo albonotatus |
Molino Basin (1); Kitt Peak (1-2); Madera Canyon (1); Arivaca (1 in the kettle with the 50 Turkey Vultures); Comfort
Springs Trail (1); Rustler Road (1) |
| Red-tailed Hawk |
Buteo jamaicensis |
Cottonwood Lane (pair); Kitt Peak (rare melanistic morph bird); Carr Canyon Road; Rustler Road; also all valleys inbetween)
|
| Golden Eagle |
Aquila chrysaetos |
Whitetail Prairie (scope view of one silhouetted on a crag on Split Rock) |
| American Kestrel |
Falco sparverius |
Cottonwood Lane (2); Sweetwater Wetlands; Highway 86; Lower Madera Canyon Road; Arivaca; Río Rico; Kino Springs; San
Pedro; Sierra Vista Ponds; Willow Tank; St. David |
| Peregrine Falcon |
Falco peregrinus |
Sweetwater Wetlands (multiple views of 1 eating a Mourning Dove); Río Rico (1 perched on tower both mornings at breakfast) |
| Scaled Quail |
Callipepla squamata |
San Pedro River (pair scoped at the River Inn);
Whitewater Draw; Willow Tank |
| Gambel’s Quail |
Callipepla gambelii |
Cottonwood Lane; Shannon-Broadway Desert; Sweetwater Wetlands; Kitt Peak; Río Rico; Kino Springs (heard only); lower
Ramsey Canyon; Carr Canyon Road; Portal; Whitetail Prairie |
| Sora |
Porzana carolina |
Kino Springs (1 juvenile at first pond); San Pedro River (heard only) |
| Common Moorhen |
Gallinula chloropus |
Sweetwater Wetlands (a handful) |
| American Coot |
Fulica americana |
Sweetwater Wetlands; Kino Springs (pair with red-headed baby) |
| Killdeer |
Charadrius vociferus |
Cottonwood Lane (1); Sweetwater Wetlands; Green Valley; Río Rico; Sierra Vista Ponds; Whitewater Draw; Willcox |
| Black-necked Stilt |
Himantopus mexicanus |
Green Valley (5); Willcox (probably 20, all on the slough south of golf course pond) |
| American Avocet |
Recurvirostra americana |
Willcox (about 75) |
| Greater Yellowlegs |
Tringa melanoleuca |
Willcox (7-8 on the slough south of golf course pond) |
| Lesser Yellowlegs |
Tringa flavipes |
Willcox (5-6 on the slough south of golf course pond) |
| Willet |
Catoptrophorus semipalmatus |
Green Valley Ponds (2) |
| Spotted Sandpiper |
Actitus macularia |
Sweetwater Wetlands (1, still with spots); Green Valley Ponds; San Pedro River; Whitewater Draw (3, 1 without spots) |
| Long-billed Curlew |
Numenius americanus |
Whitewater Draw (ca. 15-20; birds swiftly hid behind island created by floodwaters) |
| Marbled Godwit |
Limosa fedoa |
Willcox (1, excellent view of bird quite uncommon in SE Arizona)
|
| Semipalmated Sandpiper |
Calidris pusilla |
Willcox (1, excellent view of bird quite uncommon in SE Arizona)
|
| Western Sandpiper |
Calidris mauri |
Willcox (a dozen or so) |
| Least Sandpiper |
Calidris minutilla |
Green Valley (6-8); Whitewater Draw; Willcox |
| Baird’s Sandpiper |
Calidris bairdii |
Green Valley (2); Whitewater Draw (1) |
| Stilt Sandpiper |
Calidris himantopus |
Willcox (1, regular but uncommon during migration in this area)
|
| Long-billed Dowitcher |
Limnodromus scolopaceus |
Green Valley Ponds (5, still in red breeding plumage); Whitewater Draw; Willcox
|
| Wilson’s Phalarope |
Phalaropus tricolor |
Green Valley Ponds (15); Whitewater Draw (100); Willcox (100+)
|
| Rock Pigeon (Dove) |
Columba livia |
Tucson and other towns |
| Band-tailed Pigeon |
Columba fasciata |
Comfort Springs Trail (1 fly-over); Rustler Road (scope views of a perched bird)
|
| Eurasian Collared-Dove |
Streptopelia decaocto |
Tombstone (5); Whitewater Draw (1; birds arrived in Arizona in 2000) |
| White-winged Dove |
Zenaida asiatica |
Tucson and widespread in valleys and foothill canyons up to 5500ft in Cave Creek |
| Mourning Dove |
Zenaida macroura |
Tucson and widespread in valleys and foothill canyons up to 5500ft in Cave Creek |
| Inca Dove |
Columbina inca |
Shannon-Broadway Desert (6 in Tucson); Paton’s home in Patagonia; Douglas |
| Common Ground-Dove |
Columbina passerina |
Arivaca (4); Paton’s home (1); San Pedro River
|
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
Coccyzus americanus |
Proctor Road in lower Madera Canyon (1); Arivaca (1); California Gulch (1 in road edge shrub); Patagonia Roadside Rest (1); Kino Springs (1) |
| Greater Roadrunner |
Geococcyx californianus |
Shannon-Broadway Desert; Molino Basin; Green Valley; Lower Madera Canyon; Río Rico; Arivaca; Ruby Road (with
lizard in bill); Sierra Vista; Carr Canyon Road; Whitewater Draw; Portal; San Simon Road
|
| Barn Owl |
Tyto alba |
San Pedro (pair still roosting in big cottonwood at the
River Inn, even after a big rain) |
| Western Screech-Owl |
Otus kennicottii |
Whitetail Canyon (1, wonderful view) |
| Great Horned Owl |
Bubo virginianus |
San Pedro (adult & immature in cottonwood grove near river); Portal (1 perching in front of store after supper
first night)
|
| Northern Pygmy-Owl |
Glaucidium gnoma |
Rustler Road (2, an adult with an immature in tall Ponderosa pine)
|
| Elf Owl |
(Micrathene whitneyi |
Whitetail Canyon (1, great view) |
| Burrowing Owl |
Athene cunicularia |
Cottonwood Lane (scope study of 2) |
| Spotted Owl |
Strix occidentalis |
South Fork Cave Creek (fledglings heard calling from high on steep slope after dark) |
| Lesser Nighthawk |
Chordeiles acutipennis |
Tucson (1 seen briefly from one van only); Charleston Bridge over San Pedro River (4 seen at 9 a.m. while en route to Tombstone)
|
| Common Poorwill |
Phalaenoptilus nuttallii |
California Gulch (prolonged study of 1 perched on pipe); Whitetail Prairie & Foothills Road (half-dozen flushed from road on drive back to
Portal after dinner at Rick & Lynne’s home) |
| Buff-collared Nightjar |
Caprimulgus ridgwayi |
California Gulch (1 heard and glimpsed in spotlight at old Oro Blanco Mine) |
| White-throated Swift |
Aeronautes saxatalis |
Molino Basin; Proctor Road; Comfort Springs Trail; Rustler Road & Park
|
| Broad-billed Hummingbird |
Cynanthus latirostris |
Madera Canyon; Proctor Road; Arivaca; Río Rico; Paton’s; Miller Canyon; Ramsey Canyon; Portal |
| White-eared Hummingbird |
Hylocharis leucotis |
Miller Canyon (4: 2 adult males, 1 adult female, & 1 immature)
|
| Berylline Hummingbird |
Amazilia beryllina |
Ramsey Canyon (1 adult male & 1 hybrid cross with a Broad-billed Hummingbird) |
| Violet-crowned Hummingbird |
Amazilia violiceps |
Paton’s (2, great views) |
| Blue-throated Hummingbird |
Lampornis clemenciae |
Miller Canyon (1 male); Portal; South Fork; Whitetail Canyon (fairly common in Chiricahuas) |
| Magnificent Hummingbird |
Eugenes fulgens |
Willow Canyon; Madera Canyon; Miller Canyon; Ramsey Canyon; Silver Creek; Portal; Paradise; Whitetail Canyon |
| Lucifer Hummingbird |
Calothorax lucifer |
Miller Canyon (adult male and female at Beattys’ Orchard)
|
| Black-chinned Hummingbird |
Archilochus alexandri |
Willow Canyon; Sweetwater Wetlands; Madera Canyon; Paton’s; Miller Canyon; Ramsey Canyon; San Pedro River; Portal; Whitetail Canyon
(the most abundant hummingbird species) |
| Anna’s Hummingbird |
Calypte anna |
Willow Canyon; Miller Canyon; Ramsey Canyon; Portal
|
| Costa’s Hummingbird |
Calypte costae |
Miller Canyon (female perched on chain link fence in front of Beattys’ Orchard) |
| Calliope Hummingbird |
Stellula calliope |
Miller Canyon (male & female); Ramsey Canyon (female); San Pedro River Inn (male); Portal (male); Whitetail Canyon (female)
|
| Broad-tailed Hummingbird |
Selasphorus platycercus |
Willow Canyon; Miller Canyon; Ramsey Canyon; Portal; Paradise; Whitetail
|
| Rufous Hummingbird |
Selasphorus rufus |
Willow Canyon (adult male at dusk); Paton’s (adult male in daylight); San Pedro River Inn; Miller Canyon; Ramsey
Canyon; Comfort Springs Trail; Portal; Silver Creek; Whitetail Canyon |
| Allen’s Hummingbird |
Selasphorus sasin |
Miller Canyon (adult male at fenceline feeders at Beattys’ Orchard)
|
| Elegant Trogon |
Trogon elegans |
Madera Canyon (2 immatures scoped and male glimpsed); South Fork (yearling male seen and 2 other trogons heard); Cave Creek
(female)
|
| Acorn Woodpecker |
Melanerpes formicivorus |
Willow Canyon; Kitt Peak; Madera Canyon; Sycamore Canyon; Patagonia; Miller Canyon; Ramsey Canyon; Comfort Springs Trail; Portal; Cave Creek;
Rustler Road |
| Gila Woodpecker |
Melanerpes uropygialis |
Tucson; Cottonwood Lane; Shannon-Broadway Desert; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum; Sweetwater Wetlands; Río Rico;
Arivaca; Kino Springs; Patagonia Roadside Rest; San Pedro River |
| Ladder-backed Woodpecker |
Picoides scalaris |
Sweetwater Wetlands; Kitt Peak; Arivaca; California Gulch; Patagonia Roadside Rest ; Miller Canyon;
Charleston Bridge
|
| Hairy Woodpecker |
Picoides villous |
Comfort Spring Trail (1 near campground at trailhead)
|
| Arizona (formerly Strickland’s) Woodpecker |
Picoides arizonae |
Madera Canyon (on suet feeder at Madera Kubo); Miller Canyon; Ramsey Canyon; South Fork;
Whitetail Canyon
|
| “Red-shafted” Northern Flicker |
Colaptes auratus |
Willow Canyon (heard only); Arivaca (seen); Kino Springs; Miller Canyon; Comfort Spring Trail; South Fork |
| Gilded Flicker |
Colaptes chrysoides |
Sweetwater Wetlands (heard only); Big Pond near Sells (glimpsed); Kino Springs (scope views of pair near golf course);
Shannon-Broadway Desert (final stop of tour) |
| Northern Beardless Tyrannulet |
Camptostoma imberbe |
Patagonia Roadside Rest (1 by stream) |
| Greater Pewee |
Contopus pertinax |
Comfort Spring Trail (1 posing on dead snag for the lead walkers on return to the vans) |
| Western Wood-Pewee |
Contopus sordidulus |
Madera Canyon; Patagonia Roadside Rest; Ramsey Canyon; Comfort Spring Trail; South Fork; Cave Creek |
| Pacific-slope Flycatcher |
Empidonax difficilis |
St. David (1 behind Monastery our final afternoon) |
| Cordilleran Flycatcher |
Empidonax occidentalis |
E. Turkey Creek (4, incl. 2 immatures); Rustler Park |
| Buff-breasted Flycatcher |
Empidonax fulvifrons |
Comfort Spring Trail (1 glimpsed in second ravine) |
| Black Phoebe |
Sayornis nigricans |
Sweetwater Wetlands; Arivaca; Patagonia Roadside Rest; Kino Springs; San Pedro River; Sierra Vista Ponds; Whitewater Draw |
| Say’s Phoebe |
Sayornis saya |
Proctor Road (perched on restroom roof!); Kino Springs; San Pedro River Inn; Carr Canyon |
| Vermilion Flycatcher |
Pyrocephalus rubinus |
Río Rico; Palo Duro Ponds; San Pedro River; Whitewater Draw; Saint David |
| Dusky-capped Flycatcher |
Myiarchus tuberculifer |
Madera Canyon; Arivaca; Ramsey Canyon; Cave Creek |
| Ash-throated Flycatcher |
Myiarchus cinerascens |
Silver Creek (pair) |
| Brown-crested Flycatcher |
Myiarchus tyrannulus |
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (heard and glimpsed); Sweetwater Wetlands; Arivaca; Cave Creek; Whitetail
Canyon |
| Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher |
Myiodynastes luteiventris |
Madera Canyon; Miller Canyon (heard only); Cave Creek |
| Tropical Kingbird |
Tyrannus melancholicus |
Arivaca (2); Río Rico (3 pairs); Kino Springs (1-2) |
| Cassin’s Kingbird |
Tyrannus vociferans |
Río Rico and widespread in valley trees & foothill canyons |
| Thick-billed Kingbird |
Tyrannus crassirostris |
Arivaca (1 at Cienega and 1 on Creek); Patagonia Roadside Rest (pair & 2 fledglings) |
| Western Kingbird |
Tyrannus verticalis |
Cottonwood Lane (pair); Lower Madera Canyon; Arivaca Road; Río Rico; San Pedro; Sierra Vista; Whitewater Draw;
Apache (the common open valley kingbird species) |
| Loggerhead Shrike |
Lanius ludovicianus |
Cottonwood Lane (pair); Three Points; Lower Madera Canyon; San Pedro River; Willow Tank; Willcox |
| Bell’s Vireo |
Vireo bellii |
Shannon-Broadway Desert; Kitt Peak (heard); Proctor Road; Arivaca; Patagonia Roadside Rest; St. David |
| Plumbeous Vireo |
Vireo plumbeus |
Madera Canyon (1 by stream where we tried to spot adult male trogon); Cave Creek (1) |
| Hutton’s Vireo |
Vireo huttoni |
Madera Canyon (heard only); Comfort Spring Trail; South Fork; Cave Creek (common in Chiricahuas below 7,500’)
|
| Warbling Vireo |
Vireo gilvus |
Madera Canyon (up the canyon with two fledgling trogons); Kino Springs (1) |
| Steller’s Jay |
Cyanocitta stelleri |
Comfort Spring Trail; Rustler Road & Park; Barfoot Road (common in high Chiricahuas) |
| Western Scrub-Jay/td>
| Aphelocoma californica |
Kitt Peak (heard only); Comfort Spring Trail (1 within 15’); Silver Creek (a handful) |
| Mexican Jay |
Aphelocoma ultramarina |
Willow Canyon; Kitt Peak; Madera Canyon; Miller Canyon; Ramsey Canyon; Comfort Spring Trail; South Fork; Cave Creek
|
| Chihuahuan Raven |
Corvus cryptoleucus |
Sierra Vista Ponds; Whitewater Draw; near Douglas; Apache; San Simon; Willcox |
| Common Raven |
corvus corax |
Shannon-Broadway Desert and widespread in valley riparian groves & all mountains |
| Horned Lark (our Shore Lark) |
Eremophila alpestris |
Apache (1 perched on barbed wire fence) |
| Purple Martin |
Progne subis |
Shannon-Broadway Desert; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum; Sweetwater Wetlands; Big Pond near Sells; Charleston Bridge (very
unusual migrant in San Pedro River Valley) |
| Tree Swallow |
Tachycineta bicolor |
Green Valley Ponds (even perched on the fence); Whitewater Draw (2-3) |
| Violet-green Swallow |
Tachycineta thalassina |
Proctor Road; San Pedro River (2, perhaps driven into valley by p.m. storms in Huachuca Mtns.); Comfort Spring
Trail; Silver Creek (like pegs on a clothesline); Whitetail Canyon |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
Stelgidopteryx serripennis |
Sweetwater Wetlands (a handful); San Pedro River (at every bird stop) |
| Bank Swallow (our Sand Martin) |
Riparia riparia |
Green Valley Ponds (several, incl. perched on sewage pond chain link fence) |
| Cliff Swallow |
Petrochelidon pyrrhonota |
Sweetwater Wetlands (1 or 2); Green Valley Ponds (5-6); Whitewater Draw; Willow Tank |
| Barn Swallow |
Hirundo rustica |
Sweetwater Wetlands (10-12 here) and common in all valleys |
| Mexican Chickadee |
Poecile sclateri |
Rustler Road (pair) & Park (several, endemic to Chiricahua Mountains in U.S.) |
| Bridled Titmouse |
Baeolophus wollweberi |
Kitt Peak (4-5); Río Rico; Kino Springs; South Fork; Cave Creek |
| Juniper Titmouse |
Baeolophus ridgwayi |
Silver Creek (1 that kept darting out of view but eventually seen by all); Paradise (2) |
| Verdin |
Auriparus flaviceps |
Shannon-Broadway Desert; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum; Sweetwater Wetlands; Proctor Road; Willow Tank |
| Bushtit |
Psaltriparus minimus |
Comfort Spring Trail (a flock near campground); South Fork |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch |
Sitta canadensis |
Rustler Road; Barfoot Road |
| White-breasted Nuthatch |
Sitta carolinesis |
Madera Canyon; Paton’s home; South Fork; Cave Creek; Rustler Park; Whitetail |
| Pygmy Nuthatch |
Sitta pygmaea |
Rustler Road & Park; Barfoot Road |
| Brown Creeper |
Certhia americana |
South Fork; Rustler |
| Cactus Wren |
Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus |
Tucson; Cottonwood Lane; Shannon-Broadway Desert; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum; Sweetwater Wetlands; Tombstone; Silver Creek (the Arizona State Bird) |
| Rock Wren |
Salpinctes obsoletus |
Kitt Peak (nice view); Ruby Road; Silver Creek (heard only) |
| Canyon Wren |
Catherpes mexicanus |
Willow Canyon (at dusk on the roof of Barbara’s cabin); Kitt Peak (good views); Madera Canyon (heard only); Patagonia
Roadside Rest; Comfort Spring Trail; Silver Creek (heard only) |
| Bewick’s Wren |
Thryomanes bewickii |
Kitt Peak; Arivaca; California Gulch; Silver Creek |
| House Wren |
Troglodytes aedon |
Madera Canyon (1 at Madera Kubo cabins); Comfort Spring Trail (heard only); Rustler Park; “Brown-throated Wren” form at
Rustler Park |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher |
Polioptila caerulea |
Kitt Peak (1 at summit picnic area) |
| Black-tailed Gnatcatcher |
Polioptila melanura |
Shannon-Broadway Desert (male with solid black cap); California Gulch (moulting) |
| Black-capped Gnatcatcher |
Polioptila nigriceps |
Proctor Road (male already without black cap in basic plumage) |
| Hermit Thrush |
Catharus guttatus |
Madera Canyon (a spotted immature) |
| American Robin |
Turdus migratorius |
Comfort Spring Trail (2); Cave Creek (a few); Rustler (a handful) |
| Aztec Thrush |
Ridgwayia pinicola |
Madera Canyon (1 in fruiting chokecherry tree for the entire hour we were there, a very rare spp.) |
| Northern Mockingbird |
Minus polyglottos |
Cottonwood Lane and widespread in all valleys |
| Bendire’s Thrasher |
Toxostoma bendirei |
near Willow Tank (a definite adult and a probable juvenile that faced away from us for 10 mins in brush pile) |
| Curve-billed Thrasher |
Toxostoma curvirostre |
Cottonwood Lane; Shannon-Broadway Desert; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum; Proctor Road; Lower Ramsey Canyon; Silver Creek |
| Crissal Thrasher |
Toxostoma crissale |
Kitt Peak (heard only); Silver Creek (scoped) Tucson; Sweetwater Wetlands; Green Valley; Arivaca; St. David |
| European Starling |
Sturnus vulgaris |
Common in Tucson area, especially near habitation |
| Phainopepla |
Phainopepla nitens |
Shannon-Broadway Desert; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum; Río Rico; Kino Springs |
| Lucy’s Warbler |
Vermivora luciae |
Kino Springs (2) |
| Yellow Warbler |
Dendroica petechia |
Sweetwater Wetlands (3); Palo Duro Pond; Paton’s home; San Pedro River (2 different females feeding cowbird chicks) |
| Black-throated Gray Warbler |
Dendroica nigrescens |
Comfort Spring Trail (1); South Fork; Cave Creek (fairly common in Chiricahuas) |
| Grace’s Warbler |
Dendroica graciae |
South Fork (Tom only) |
| Common Yellowthroat |
Geothlypis trichas |
Sweetwater Wetlands (10+); Kino Springs; San Pedro River; Whitewater Draw; Willcox |
| Red-faced Warbler |
Cardellina rubrifrons |
Comfort Spring Trail (multiple close-up views of 1 in first ravine) |
| Painted Redstart |
Myioborus pictus |
Comfort Spring Trail (pair—1 next to trail!--and an immature); South Fork; Cave Creek |
| Yellow-breasted Chat |
Icteria virens |
Arivaca; Sycamore Canyon; Paton’s home; San Pedro River; St. David |
| Hepatic Tanager |
Piranga flava |
Madera Canyon (1 immature); Miller Canyon (male); Cave Creek; E. Turkey Creek |
| Summer Tanager |
Piranga rubra |
Arivaca (male at Creek); California Gulch; Patagonia Roadside Rest; San Pedro River; Paradise; Whitetail; St. David |
| Western Tanager |
Piranga ludoviciana |
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (male); Sweetwater Wetlands (male); Highway 86 (male); Arivaca (male); California
Gulch; Kino Springs; Comfort Spring Trail; Portal (mostly lowland migrants) |
| Spotted Towhee |
Pipilo maculatus |
Kitt Peak (at summit picnic area); Comfort Spring Trail (half dozen or more here) |
| Canyon Towhee |
Pipilo fuscus |
Proctor Road (several); Río Rico; California Gulch; Kino Springs; San Pedro River; Willow Tank; Portal |
| Abert’s Towhee |
Pipilo aberti |
Cottonwood Lane; Shannon-Broadway Desert; Sweetwater Wetlands; Paton’s home |
| Rufous-winged Sparrow |
Aimophila carpalis |
Shannon-Broadway Desert (glimpsed at nest); Kitt Peak (excellent views) |
| Cassin’s Sparrow |
Aimophila cassinii |
Lower Madera Canyon (heard only); Arivaca (scoped); Kino Springs; Sonoita Grasslands; Willow Tank |
| Botteri’s Sparrow |
Aimophila botterii |
Lower Madera Canyon (watched as it sang); Kino Springs (singing at Gilded Flicker site) |
| Rufous-crowned Sparrow |
Aimophila ruficeps |
Kitt Peak (2-3); Proctor Road; Silver Creek |
| Five-striped Sparrow |
Aimophila quinquestriata |
California Gulch (within 20 feet!) |
| Chipping Sparrow |
|
Silver Creek (2 for one van); Foothills Road (flock of about 10) |
| Black-chinned Sparrow |
Spizella atrogularus |
Silver Creek (1 heard low down in canyon & 1 very cooperative bird seen near pass) |
| Lark Sparrow |
Chondestes grammacus |
California Gulch; Río Rico; Paton’s home; San Pedro River; Sierra Vista Ponds; Whitetail Prairie |
| Black-throated Sparrow |
Amphispiza bilineata |
Arivaca Road (at the Gray Hawk site); Whitewater Draw; Portal; Silver Creek |
| Lark Bunting |
Calamospiza melanocorys |
along Davis Road en route from Tombstone to Whitewater Draw (20 or more, males still wearing black breeding plumage) |
| Grasshopper Sparrow |
Ammodramus savannarum |
Sonoita Grasslands (1 nervous bird seen on variety of perches, incl. the fence) |
| Song Sparrow |
Melospiza melodia |
Sweetwater Wetlands (common); Palo Duro Ponds; Paton’s home; Kino Springs; St. David |
| Yellow-eyed Junco |
Junco phaeonotus |
Willow Canyon; Comfort Spring Trail; Carr Canyon Road; Main Fork Cave Creek; Rustler Road & Park; Barfoot Road |
| Northern Cardinal |
Cardinalis cardinalis |
Cottonwood Lane; Shannon-Broadway Desert; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum; Kitt Peak; Lower Madera Canyon;
Arivaca; Paton’s home; Portal; Whitetail Canyon |
| Pyrrhuloxia |
Cardinalis sinuatus |
Shannon-Broadway Desert; Kitt Peak; Río Rico; Paton’s home; Lower Ramsey Canyon |
| Black-headed Grosbeak |
Pheucticus melanocephalus |
Willow Canyon; Sweetwater Wetlands; Kitt Peak; Río Rico; Arivaca; Paton’s home; Miller Canyon; South Fork; Cave Creek; Whitetail Canyon |
| Blue Grosbeak |
Passerina caerulea |
Proctor Road; Arivaca; California Gulch; Río Rico; Palo Duro Ponds; Patagonia Roadside Rest; Miller Canyon; San Pedro
River; Charleston Bridge; Whitewater Draw; Willow Tank; Whitetail Canyon (a beautiful, if common, species) |
| Lazuli Bunting |
Passerina amoena |
Proctor Road (2 males); Río Rico (pair); San Pedro River (a handful); Charleston Bridge (male) |
| Varied Bunting |
Passerina versicolor |
Kitt Peak (2 females & male); Proctor Road (male); Ruby Road (male); Kino Springs (2 males) |
| Painted Bunting |
Passerina ciris |
Kino Springs (a female on dam separating 2 golf course ponds) |
| Red-winged Blackbird |
Agelaius phoeniceus |
Sweetwater Wetlands; Río Rico; Kino Springs; San Pedro River; Sierra Vista Ponds; Whitewater Draw; Willow Tank |
| Eastern Meadowlark |
Sturnella magna |
Arivaca; Nogales Airport; San Pedro River |
| Yellow-headed Blackbird |
Xanthocephalus xanthcephalus |
San Pedro River Inn (pair) |
| Great-tailed Grackle |
Quiscalus mexicanus |
Tucson and all valleys |
| Bronzed Cowbird |
Molothrus aeneus |
Cottonwood Lane (male); Shannon-Broadway (female); Arivaca; Río Rico; Paton’s home |
| Brown-headed Cowbird |
Molothrus ater |
Shannon-Broadway Desert (female); Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (male); Arivaca; California Gulch; Río Rico; Paton’s
home; Willow Tank |
| Hooded Oriole |
Icterus cucullatus |
Tucson; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (male); Madera Canyon; Proctor Road; Río Rico; California Gulch; Patagonia
Roadside Rest; Paton’s home; Tombstone; Paradise; Portal |
| Bullock’s Oriole |
Icterus bullockii |
Lower Madera Canyon (a female) |
| Scott’s Oriole |
Icterus parisorum |
Kitt Peak (female); Silver Creek (good views of male & female on agave blossoms); Portal (female) |
| House Finch |
Carpodacus mexicanus |
Cottonwood Lane; Shannon-Broadway Desert; Sweetwater Wetlands; Kitt Peak; Lower Madera Canyon; Paton’s home; Kino
Springs; San Pedro River; Portal; Paradise; Whitetail Canyon; St.David |
| Pine Siskin |
Carduelis pinus |
Willow Canyon (2 at Barbara’s cabin) |
| Lesser Goldfinch |
Carduelis psaltria |
Cottonwood Lane and all lowland locations |
| House Sparrow |
Passer domesticus |
Tucson, and all cities and towns, including Portal |
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Total species = 199 seen (including 14 species of hummingbirds) + 1 heard |
