Friday, June 8, 2012

Tucson

I finally added all of the Tucson birds to our list.  It was a pretty epic trip (around 129 birds total, including 40 lifers for me).  On the weekend, we saw 44 new birds on the year.

Birds 322-365:

Neotropic Cormorant
Black-Bellied Whistling Duck
Least Grebe
Lucy's Warbler
Grace's Warbler
Red-Faced Warbler
Painted Redstart
Canyon Towhee
Botteri's Sparrow
Five-Striped Sparrow
Yellow-Eyed Junco
Hepatic Tanager
Summer Tanager
Varied Bunting
Bronzed Cowbird
Pine Siskin
Montezuma Quail (heard only)
Harris's Hawk
Gray Hawk
Zone-Tailed Hawk
Flammulated Owl (heard only)
Whiskered Screech-Owl
Elf Owl
Lesser Nighthawk
Mexican Whip-poor-will (heard only)
Broad-Billed Hummingbird
Violet-Crowned Hummingbird
Magnificent Hummingbird
Broad-Tailed Hummingbird
Elegant Trogon
Gila Woodpecker
Arizona Wookpecker
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
Greater Pewee
Cordilleran Flycatcher
Buff-Breasted Flycatcher
Dusky-Capped Flycatcher
Brown-Crested Flycatcher
Sulphur-Bellied Flycatcher
Plumbeous Vireo
Hutton's Vireo
Mexican Jay
Bridled Titmouse
Pygmy Nuthatch

We may also be able to add Cassin's Sparrow to the list.  We thought we had that bird, but we are just waiting to get confirmation through one of Matt Grube's photos.

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