Prime Birding Area on the East Side of the Chiricahuas
(Just up the Road from Portal, Arizona).
You can drive where there is a heavy black line.
Summer Bird List for Area Shown in Map (The more common species are boldfaced):
| Turkey Vulture Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Zone-tailed Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Peregrine Falcon Montezuma Quail -- hard to find Band-tailed Pigeon White-winged Dove Mourning Dove Flammulated Owl Whiskered Screech Owl Great Horned Owl Northern Pygmy Owl Elf Owl Spotted Owl Whip-Poor-Will White-throated Swift Broad-billed Hummingbird -- rare White-eared Hummingbird - rare Berylline Hummingbird -- rare Violet-crowned Hummingbird - rare Blue-throated Hummingbird Magnificent Hummingbird Black-chinned Hummingbird Broad-tailed Hummingbird |
Elegant Trogon Eared Trogon -- very rare Acorn Woodpecker Strickland's Woodpecker Northern Flicker Greater Pewee Western Wood Pewee Western Flycatcher Black Phoebe Say's Phoebe Dusky-capped Flycatcher Ash-throated Flycatcher Brown-crested Flycatcher Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Cassin's Kingbird Violet-green Swallow Steller's Jay Mexican Jay Common Raven Mexican Chickadee Bridled Titmouse Bushtit Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Canyon Wren |
Bewick's Wren House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Hermit Thrush American Robin Curve-billed Thrasher Solitary Vireo Hutton's Vireo Warbling Vireo Virginia's Warbler Lucy's Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Grace's Warbler Red-faced Warbler Painted Redstart Hepatic Tanager Western Tanager Black-Headed Grosbeak Spotted Towhee Canyon Towhee Bronzed Cowbird Brown-headed Cowbird Hooded Oriole Scott's Oriole House Finch |
Some other species that have occurred in the summer: Aztec Thrush, Flame-colored Tanager, Hooded Warbler, Black-and-White Warbler
Many other migrants appear in the canyon until early June and after the end of July.
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