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Tucson Region Birding Locations
Arizona birding hot spots - Chiricahua Mountains guest ranch resort.
Over 500 bird species, both migrant and resident, have been recorded in this unusually biodiverse, high-desert, grassland environment. Chiricahua mountains Arizona birding: The Chiricahua Mountains, and in particular, Turkey Creek, offers phenomenal birding. Our own feeders bring large bird populations all year 'round. Sunglow Ranch makes an outstanding bird watching vacation venue.
Birds Identified at Sunglow Ranch/Turkey Creek Area
If you spot a bird that is not on this list, please let us know so that we can add it.
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- American Vultures
- Turkey Vulture
- Barn & Typical Owls
- Flammulated Owl
- Great Horned Owl
- Western Screech-Owl
- Whiskered Screech-Owl
- Bitterns & Herons
- Great Blue Heron
- Green Heron
- Bushtits
- Bushtit
- Blackbirds, Orioles
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Lillian's Eastern Meadowlark
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Bronzed Cowbird
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Bullock's Oriole
- Caracaras & Falcons
- American Kestrel
- Prairie Falcon
- Cardinals, Grosbeaks, Allies
- Northern Cardinal
- Black-headed Grosbeak
- Blue Grosbeak
- Indigo Bunting
- Lazuli Bunting
- Pyrrhuloxia
- Cardueline Finches
- House Finch
- Lesser Goldfinch
- Pine Siskin
- Chickadees & Titmice
- Mexican Chickadee
- Bridled Titmouse
- Cranes
- Sandhill Crane
- Doves
- Mourning Dove
- White-winged Dove
- Ducks
- American Wigeon
- Redhead
- Common Merganser
- Mallard
- Cinnamon Teal
- Wood Duck
- Emberzines, Sparrows and Allies
- Canyon Towhee
- Black-chinned Sparrow
- Black-throated Sparrow
- Chipping Sparrow
- House Sparrow
- Lark Sparrow
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Yellow-eyed Junco
- Hawks & Eagles
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Harris's Hawk
- Northern Harrier
- Zone-tailed Hawk
- Golden Eagle
- Hummingbirds
- Allen's Hummingbird
- Anna's Hummingbird
- Black-chinned Hummingbird
- Broad-billed Hummingbird
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Magnificent Hummingbird
- Jays & Ravens
- Mexican Jay
- Steller's Jay
- Chihuahuan Raven
- Common Raven
- Western Scrub Jay
- Pinon Jay
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Kingfishers
- Belted Kingfisher
- Kinglets
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Mockingbirds
- Northern Mockingbird
- Curved-billed Thrasher
- Goatsuckers
- Common Poorwill
- Whip-poor-will
- Nuthatches
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Creepers
- Brown Creeper
- Plovers
- Killdeer
- Quail
- Gambel's Quail
- Scaled Quail
- Montezuma Quail
-
Cuckoos and their Allies
- Greater Roadrunner
- Sandpipers
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Shrikes
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Swallows
- Barn Swallow
- Cliff Swallow
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Violet-green Swallow
- Swifts
- White-throated Swift
- Tanagers
- Hepatic Tanager
- Western Tanager
- Thrushes
- American Robin
- Hermit Thrush
- Western Bluebird
- Tyrant Flycatchers
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Dusky Flycatcher
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher
- Hammond's Flycatcher
- Cassin's Kingbird
- Tropical Kingbird
- Western Kingbird
- Greater Pewee
- Western Wood-Pewee
- Say's Phoebe
- Rose-throated Becard
- Vireos
- Hutton's Vireo
- Plumbeous Vireo
- Warbling Vireo
- Wood Warblers
- Audubon's Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Black-throated Warbler
- Grace's Warbler
- MacGillivray's Warbler
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Painted Redstart
- Red-faced Warbler
- Townsend's Warbler
- Virginia's Warbler
- Wilson's Warbler
- Yellow Warbler
- Olive Warbler
- Woodpeckers
- Acorn Woodpecker
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker
- Red-naped Sapsucker
- Red-shafted Northern Flicker
- Arizona Woodpecker
- Gila Woodpecker
- Lewis's Woodpecker
- Wrens
- Bewick's Wren