Bird list

Ever enjoying nature, we've started listing all the birds we see in our immediate vicinity.

1. Gila woodpecker


2. House sparrow


3. Black-tailed gnat catcher


4. Curve-billed Thrasher


5. Great tailed grackle


6. Cactus wren


7. Gambel's quail


8. White winged dove


9. Mockingbird


10. Hummingbird (most certainly more than one species, but we have to figure out which ones yet)


11. Turkey vulture


12. Whip-poor-will


13. Harris hawk


14. Red tailed hawk


15. American crow


16. Common raven


17. Canada goose


18. Mallard


19. some sort of little green flycatcher (again, still working on identifying the exact species)


20. house finch
21. another kind of finch (ID pending)


22. Roadrunner (did you know the roadrunner is a type of cuckoo?!)


23. parakeets


24. European starling


25. oriole (ID pending)


26. owl (ID pending)


27. American robin


28. Northern Cardinal


29. Falcon or kestrel (ID pending)


30. Rock dove (pigeon)


31. Mourning dove
32. Rock wren


33. swift (ID pending)
34. Abert's Towee

A Gila Woodpecker on our neighbor's saguaro