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BIRDING AND LISTS

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Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat is very honored to host the Wings Over Willcox Birding Festival's featured speakers. Registration for Wings Over Willcox is open now. Visit their website at www.wingsoverwillcox.com or call 1-800-200-2272.

Unusual and fun happenings!

5/18/08: Tufted Flycatcher as seen by staff in Cave Creek, Portal Area

5/25/08: White-rumped Sandpiper as seen by staff at Willcox Twin Lakes

5//29/08: Hummers taking a birdbath in the water fountain!

RARE, indeed! A tufted flycatcher as photographed by the staff of Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat at Portal, Cave Creek area on 5/18/08.

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Below is the bird and nature list as sighted by our staff, or reported to staff, at the Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat. Our retret is ideally located for birding in the surrounding areas, including Dos Cabezas, the Willcox Twin Lakes, Portal, the Chiricahua mountains, Whitewater Draw Lake, and the Sulphur Springs Valley. Scroll down for the Arizona Checklist. There are additional photos down the page.

The birding sights at Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat are private to our guests when we are booked; however, you are welcome to give us a call to determine if it might be possible for you to stop by for bird viewing.

BIRD and NATURE LIST

Sighted by staff on the property of

Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat

 

1.         White-crowned sparrow

2.         Vesper sparrow

3.         Black-throated sparrow

4.         Brewer’s sparrow

5.         Chipping sparrow

6.         Lark sparrow

7.         House sparrow

8.         House finch

9.         Canyon towhee

10.        Green-tailed towhee

11.        Turkey vulture

12.        Common raven

13.        Red-tailed hawk

14.        Sharp-shined hawk

15.        Cooper’s hawk

16.        Rock wren

17.        Canyon wren

18.        Cactus wren

19.        Scott’s oriole

20.        Hooded oriole                                                  

21.        Bullock’s oriole

22.        Western tanager

23.        Black-chinned hummingbird

24.        Anna’s hummingbird

25.        Rufus hummingbird

26.        Broad-tailed hummingbird

27.        Common Poorwill

28.        Northern cardinal

29.        Pyrrhuloxia

30.        Pine siskin

31.        Lesser goldfinch

32.        Brown-headed cowbird

33.        Mourning dove

34.        Inca dove

35.        White-winged dove

36.        Northern flicker

37.        Ash-throated flycatcher

38.        Great horned owl

39.        Western screech owl

40.        Dark-eyed junco

41.        Northern mockingbird

42.        Phainopepla

43.        Say’s phoebe

44.        Gamble’s quail

45.        Scaled quail

46.        Red-napped sapsucker

47.        Ladder-back woodpecker

48.        Greater roadrunner

49.        Curve-billed thrasher

50.        Crissal thrasher

51.        Verdin

52.        Lucy’s warbler

53.        Cassin’s Kingbird

54.        Ruby-crowned kinglet

55.        Lazuli Bunting

56.        Cassins Finch

57.        Sandhill Crane

58.        Eurasian Collard Dove

59.        Bewicks wren

60.        Acorn woodpecker

61.        Red-naped sapsucker

62.        American Goldfinch

63.        Barn swallow

64.        Black headed Grosbeak

65.        Bronzed cowbird

66.        Cedar waxwing

67.        Chihuauuan Raven

68.        Golden crowned kinglet

69.        Great tailed grackle

70.        Red eyed vireo

71.        Ruby crowned kinglet

72.        Say’s Phoebe

73.        Western Kingbird

74.        Yellow rumped warbler

75.        Yellow rumped warbler

76.        Lesser Nighthawk

77.        Lucy's Warbler

78.        Warbling Vireo

 

 

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 OTHER INTERESTING RESIDENTS!

Black -Tailed Jack rabbits

Cottontail rabbits

Cows

Javelina

Mule deer

Harris antelope squirrel

Various reptiles and rodents

 

 

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YOU WILL SEE AMAZING BIRDS FROM A FEW MINUTES TO 1.5 HR. DRIVE FROM RETREAT

 INCLUDING DOS CABEZAS, WILLCOX TWIN LAKES, PORTAL, CHIRICAHUA MTNS, KANSAS SETTLEMENT ROAD,

WHITEWATER DRAW LAKE, AND THE SULPHUR SPRINGS VALLEY AREA.

 

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 SCROLL DOWN TO SEE THE ARIZONA CHECKLIST BELOW THE PHOTOS

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Baby Horned Owls, Kansas Settlement Rd.- 10 min. drive from Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat.

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Excellent birding at Whitewater Draw Lake, a 30 min. drive from Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat


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                                      Cranes at Whitewater Draw Lake

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Famous Birding Area, the Willcox Twin Lakes beautifully reflects the Dos Cabezas mountains in the still waters. The Twin Lakes birding area is a 10 min. drive from Dos Cabezas Spirit and Nature Retreat.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Official Arizona State List compiled by the 

Arizona Bird Committee

 

n = Has nested in Arizona 

[ ] = Species in brackets have not been physically documented with photograph, tape recording, or specimen.

 

Anatidae - Swans, Geese, Ducks

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, n

Fulvous Whistling-Duck

Greater White-fronted Goose

Snow Goose

Ross's Goose

Brant

Cackling Goose

Canada Goose, n

Trumpeter Swan

Tundra Swan

Wood Duck, n

Gadwall, n

Eurasian Wigeon

American Wigeon, n

Mallard, n

"Mexican Duck", n

Blue-winged Teal, n

Cinnamon Teal, n

Northern Shoveler, n

Northern Pintail, n

Garganey

Green-winged Teal, n

[“Common Teal”]

Canvasback

Redhead, n

Ring-necked Duck, n

Tufted Duck

Greater Scaup

Lesser Scaup

Harlequin Duck

Surf Scoter

White-winged Scoter

Black Scoter

Long-tailed Duck

Bufflehead

Common Goldeneye

Barrow's Goldeneye

Hooded Merganser

Common Merganser

Red-breasted Merganser

Ruddy Duck, n

Phasianidae - Partridges, Grouse, and Turkey

Chukar, n (int)

Ring-necked Pheasant, n (int)

Dusky Grouse, n

Wild Turkey, n (int)

Odontophoridae - Quail

Scaled Quail, n

California Quail, n (int)

Gambel's Quail, n

Northern Bobwhite, n

Montezuma Quail, n

Gaviidae - Loons

Red-throated Loon

Pacific Loon

Common Loon

Yellow-billed Loon

Podicipedidae - Grebes

Least Grebe, n?

Pied-billed Grebe, n

Horned Grebe

Red-necked Grebe

Eared Grebe, n

Western Grebe, n

Clark's Grebe, n

Diomedeidae - Albatrosses

Laysan Albatross

Procellariidae - Shearwaters

Sooty Shearwater

Hydrobatidae - Storm-Petrels

[Leach’s Storm-Petrel]

Black Storm-Petrel

Least Storm-Petrel

Phaethontidae - Tropicbirds

White-tailed Tropicbird

Red-billed Tropicbird

Sulidae - Boobies

Blue-footed Booby

Brown Booby

Pelecanidae - Pelicans

American White Pelican

Brown Pelican

Phalacrocoracidae - Cormorants

Neotropic Cormorant, n

Double-crested Cormorant, n

Anhingidae - Anhinga

Anhinga

Fregatidae - Frigatebirds

Magnificent Frigatebird

Ardeidae - Bitterns, Herons, and Egrets

American Bittern, n

Least Bittern, n

Great Blue Heron, n

Great Egret, n

Snowy Egret, n

Little Blue Heron

Tricolored Heron

Reddish Egret

Cattle Egret, n

Green Heron, n

Black-crowned Night-Heron, n

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Threskiornithidae - Ibises and Spoonbills

White Ibis

Glossy Ibis

White-faced Ibis, n

Roseate Spoonbill

Ciconiidae - Storks

Wood Stork

Cathartidae - New World Vultures

Black Vulture, n

Turkey Vulture, n

California Condor

Accipitridae - Kites, Eagles, and Hawks

Osprey, n

[Swallow-tailed Kite]

White-tailed Kite, n

Mississippi Kite, n

Bald Eagle, n

Northern Harrier, n

Sharp-shinned Hawk, n

Cooper's Hawk, n

Northern Goshawk, n

Gray Hawk, n

Common Black-Hawk, n

Harris's Hawk, n

Red-shouldered Hawk, n

Broad-winged Hawk

Short-tailed Hawk

Swainson's Hawk, n

White-tailed Hawk

Zone-tailed Hawk, n

Red-tailed Hawk, n

“Harlan’s” Hawk

Ferruginous Hawk, n

Rough-legged Hawk

Golden Eagle, n

Falconidae - Caracaras and Falcons

Crested Caracara, n

American Kestrel, n

Merlin

Aplomado Falcon, n

Peregrine Falcon, n

Prairie Falcon, n

Rallidae - Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

Black Rail, n

Clapper Rail, n

Virginia Rail, n

Sora, n

Purple Gallinule

Common Moorhen, n

American Coot, n

Gruidae - Cranes

Sandhill Crane

Charadriidae - Plovers

Black-bellied Plover

American Golden-Plover

Pacific Golden-Plover

Snowy Plover, n

Semipalmated Plover

Killdeer, n

Mountain Plover, n

Recurvirostridae - Stilts and Avocets

Black-necked Stilt, n

American Avocet, n

Jacanidae - Jacanas

Northern Jacana

Scolopacidae - Sandpipers, Phalaropes, and Allies

Greater Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs

Solitary Sandpiper

Willet

Wandering Tattler

Spotted Sandpiper, n

Upland Sandpiper

Whimbrel

Long-billed Curlew, n

Hudsonian Godwit

Marbled Godwit

Ruddy Turnstone

Black Turnstone

Red Knot

Sanderling

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Western Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper

White-rumped Sandpiper

Baird's Sandpiper

Pectoral Sandpiper

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

Dunlin

Stilt Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Ruff

Short-billed Dowitcher

Long-billed Dowitcher

Wilson’s Snipe, n

Wilson's Phalarope, n

Red-necked Phalarope

Red Phalarope

Laridae - Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

Laughing Gull

Franklin's Gull

Bonaparte's Gull

Heermann's Gull

Mew Gull

Ring-billed Gull

California Gull

Herring Gull

Thayer's Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Yellow-footed Gull

Western Gull

Glaucous-winged Gull

Glaucous Gull

Sabine's Gull

Black-legged Kittiwake

Gull-billed Tern

Caspian Tern

Royal Tern

Elegant Tern

Common Tern

Arctic Tern

Forster's Tern

Least Tern

Black Tern

Black Skimmer

Stercorariidae - Jaegers

Pomarine Jaeger

Parasitic Jaeger

Long-tailed Jaeger

Columbidae - Pigeons and Doves

Rock Pigeon, n (int)

Band-tailed Pigeon, n

Eurasian Collared-Dove, n

White-winged Dove, n

Mourning Dove, n

Inca Dove, n

Common Ground-Dove, n

Ruddy Ground-Dove, n?

Psittacidae - Parrots

Thick-billed Parrot

Cuculidae - Cuckoos, Roadrunners, and Anis

Black-billed Cuckoo

Yellow-billed Cuckoo, n

Greater Roadrunner, n

Groove-billed Ani

Tytonidae - Barn Owls

Barn Owl, n

Strigidae - Typical Owls

Flammulated Owl, n

Western Screech-Owl, n

Whiskered Screech-Owl, n

Great Horned Owl, n

Northern Pygmy-Owl

californicum form, n

gnoma form, n

Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl, n

Elf Owl, n

Burrowing Owl, n

Spotted Owl, n

Long-eared Owl, n

Short-eared Owl

Northern Saw-whet Owl, n

Caprimulgidae - Nighthawks and Nightjars

Lesser Nighthawk, n

Common Nighthawk, n

Common Poorwill, n

Buff-collared Nightjar, n

Whip-poor-will

arizonae form, n

vociferus form

Apodidae - Swifts

[Black Swift]

Chimney Swift

Vaux's Swift

White-throated Swift, n

Trochilidae - Hummingbirds

Broad-billed Hummingbird, n

White-eared Hummingbird, n

Berylline Hummingbird, n

Cinnamon Hummingbird

Violet-crowned Hummingbird, n

Blue-throated Hummingbird, n

Magnificent Hummingbird, n

Plain-capped Starthroat

Lucifer Hummingbird, n

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Black-chinned Hummingbird, n

Anna's Hummingbird, n

Costa's Hummingbird, n

Calliope Hummingbird

Bumblebee Hummingbird

Broad-tailed Hummingbird, n

Rufous Hummingbird

Allen's Hummingbird

Trogonidae - Trogons

Elegant Trogon, n

Eared Quetzal, n

Alcedinidae - Kingfishers

Belted Kingfisher, n

Green Kingfisher, n

Picidae - Woodpeckers

Lewis's Woodpecker, n

Red-headed Woodpecker

Acorn Woodpecker, n

Gila Woodpecker, n

Williamson's Sapsucker, n

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Red-naped Sapsucker, n

Red-breasted Sapsucker

Ladder-backed Woodpecker, n

Downy Woodpecker, n

Hairy Woodpecker, n

Arizona Woodpecker, n

American Three-toed Woodpecker, n

Northern Flicker

Yellow-shafted form

Red-shafted form, n

Gilded Flicker, n

Tyrannidae - Tyrant Flycatchers

Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet, n

Tufted Flycatcher

Olive-sided Flycatcher, n

Greater Pewee, n

Western Wood-Pewee, n

Eastern Wood-Pewee

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

Acadian Flycatcher

Willow Flycatcher, n

Least Flycatcher

Hammond's Flycatcher, n

Gray Flycatcher, n

Dusky Flycatcher, n

Pacific-slope Flycatcher

Cordilleran Flycatcher, n

Buff-breasted Flycatcher, n

Black Phoebe, n

Eastern Phoebe

Say's Phoebe, n

Vermilion Flycatcher, n

Dusky-capped Flycatcher, n

Ash-throated Flycatcher, n

Nutting's Flycatcher

Great Crested Flycatcher

Brown-crested Flycatcher, n

Great Kiskadee

Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher, n

Tropical Kingbird, n

Couch's Kingbird

Cassin's Kingbird, n

Thick-billed Kingbird, n

Western Kingbird, n

Eastern Kingbird

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, n

INCERTAE SEDIS (taxonomic position uncertain)

Rose-throated Becard, n

Laniidae - Shrikes

Loggerhead Shrike, n

Northern Shrike

Vireonidae - Vireos

White-eyed Vireo

Bell's Vireo, n

Black-capped Vireo

Gray Vireo, n

Yellow-throated Vireo

Plumbeous Vireo, n

Cassin’s Vireo

[Blue-headed Vireo]

Hutton's Vireo, n

Warbling Vireo, n

Philadelphia Vireo

Red-eyed Vireo

Yellow-green Vireo

Corvidae - Jays, Magpies, Crows, and Ravens

Gray Jay, n

Steller's Jay, n

Blue Jay

Western Scrub-Jay, n

Mexican Jay, n

Pinyon Jay, n

Clark's Nutcracker, n

Black-billed Magpie, n

American Crow, n

Chihuahuan Raven, n

Common Raven, n

Alaudidae - Larks

Horned Lark, n

Hirundinidae - Swallows

Purple Martin, n

Brown-chested Martin

Tree Swallow, n

Violet-green Swallow, n

Northern Rough-winged Swallow, n

Bank Swallow

Cliff Swallow, n

Cave Swallow, n

Barn Swallow, n

Paridae - Chickadees and Titmice

Black-capped Chickadee

Mountain Chickadee, n

Mexican Chickadee, n

Bridled Titmouse, n

Juniper Titmouse, n

Remizidae - Verdins

Verdin, n

Aegithalidae - Bushtits

Bushtit, n

Sittidae - Nuthatches

Red-breasted Nuthatch, n

White-breasted Nuthatch, n

Pygmy Nuthatch, n

Certhiidae - Creepers

Brown Creeper, n

Troglodytidae - Wrens

Cactus Wren, n

Rock Wren, n

Canyon Wren, n

Carolina Wren

Bewick's Wren, n

House Wren, n

Winter Wren, n

Marsh Wren, n

Cinclidae - Dippers

American Dipper, n

Regulidae - Kinglets

Golden-crowned Kinglet, n

Ruby-crowned Kinglet, n

Sylviidae - Gnatcatchers

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, n

Black-tailed Gnatcatcher, n

Black-capped Gnatcatcher, n

Turdidae - Thrushes

Northern Wheatear

Eastern Bluebird, n

Western Bluebird, n

Mountain Bluebird, n

Townsend's Solitaire, n

Veery, n

Gray-cheeked Thrush

Swainson's Thrush, n

Hermit Thrush, n

Wood Thrush

Rufous-backed Robin

American Robin, n

Varied Thrush

Aztec Thrush

Mimidae - Catbirds, Mockingbirds, and Thrashers

Gray Catbird, n

Northern Mockingbird, n

Sage Thrasher, n

Brown Thrasher

Bendire's Thrasher, n

Curve-billed Thrasher, n

Crissal Thrasher, n

Le Conte's Thrasher, n

Blue Mockingbird

Sturnidae - Starlings

European Starling, n

Motacillidae - Wagtails and Pipits

White Wagtail

Red-throated Pipit

American Pipit, n

Sprague's Pipit

Bombycillidae - Waxwings

Bohemian Waxwing

Cedar Waxwing

Ptilogonatidae - Silky-flycatchers

Phainopepla, n

Peucedramidae - Olive Warbler

Olive Warbler, n

Parulidae - Wood Warblers

Blue-winged Warbler

Golden-winged Warbler

Tennessee Warbler

Orange-crowned Warbler, n

Nashville Warbler

Virginia's Warbler, n

Lucy's Warbler, n

Crescent-chested Warbler

Northern Parula, n

Tropical Parula

Yellow Warbler, n

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Magnolia Warbler

Cape May Warbler

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Audubon's form, n

Myrtle form

Black-throated Gray Warbler, n

Black-throated Green Warbler

Townsend's Warbler

Hermit Warbler

Blackburnian Warbler

Yellow-throated Warbler

Grace's Warbler, n

Pine Warbler

Prairie Warbler

Palm Warbler

Bay-breasted Warbler

Blackpoll Warbler

Cerulean Warbler

Black-and-white Warbler, n

American Redstart, n

Prothonotary Warbler

Worm-eating Warbler

Swainson's Warbler

Ovenbird

Northern Waterthrush

Louisiana Waterthrush

Kentucky Warbler

Connecticut Warbler

Mourning Warbler

MacGillivray's Warbler, n

Common Yellowthroat, n

Hooded Warbler

Wilson's Warbler

Canada Warbler

Red-faced Warbler, n

Painted Redstart, n

Slate-throated Redstart

Fan-tailed Warbler

Rufous-capped Warbler, n

Yellow-breasted Chat, n

Thraupidae - Tanagers

Hepatic Tanager, n

Summer Tanager, n

Scarlet Tanager

Western Tanager, n

Flame-colored Tanager, n

Emberizidae - Emberizine Finches

Green-tailed Towhee, n

Spotted Towhee, n

Eastern Towhee

Canyon Towhee, n

Abert's Towhee, n

Rufous-winged Sparrow, n

Cassin's Sparrow, n

Botteri's Sparrow, n

Rufous-crowned Sparrow, n

Five-striped Sparrow, n

American Tree Sparrow

Chipping Sparrow, n

Clay-colored Sparrow

Brewer's Sparrow, n

Field Sparrow

Black-chinned Sparrow, n

Vesper Sparrow, n

Lark Sparrow, n

Black-throated Sparrow, n

Sage Sparrow, n

Lark Bunting, n

Savannah Sparrow, n

“Large-billed” Sparrow

Grasshopper Sparrow, n

Baird's Sparrow

Le Conte's Sparrow

Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow

Fox Sparrow

“Red” Fox Sparrow

“Slate-colored” Fox Sparrow

“Sooty” Fox Sparrow

“Thick-billed” Fox Sparrow

Song Sparrow, n

Lincoln's Sparrow, n

Swamp Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

Harris's Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

gambelii form

oriantha form, n

Golden-crowned Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

White-winged form

Slate-colored form

Oregon forms

Gray-headed (caniceps) form, n

Gray-headed (dorsalis) form, n

Yellow-eyed Junco, n

McCown's Longspur

Lapland Longspur

Smith's Longspur

Chestnut-collared Longspur

Snow Bunting

Cardinalidae - Cardinals, Grosbeaks, and Buntings

Northern Cardinal, n

Pyrrhuloxia, n

Yellow Grosbeak

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Black-headed Grosbeak, n

Blue Grosbeak, n

Lazuli Bunting, n

Indigo Bunting, n

Varied Bunting, n

Painted Bunting

Dickcissel

Icteridae - Icterids

Bobolink, n

Red-winged Blackbird, n

Eastern Meadowlark (lilianae), n

Western Meadowlark, n

Yellow-headed Blackbird, n

Rusty Blackbird

Brewer's Blackbird, n

Common Grackle

Great-tailed Grackle, n

Bronzed Cowbird, n

Brown-headed Cowbird, n

Black-vented Oriole

Orchard Oriole

Hooded Oriole, n

Streak-backed Oriole, n

Baltimore Oriole, n

Bullock’s Oriole, n

Scott's Oriole, n

Fringillidae - Finches and Goldfinches

Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch

Black Rosy-Finch

Pine Grosbeak, n

Purple Finch

Cassin's Finch, n

House Finch, n

Red Crossbill, n

Pine Siskin, n

Lesser Goldfinch, n

Lawrence's Goldfinch, n

American Goldfinch, n

Evening Grosbeak, n

Passeridae - Old World Sparrows

House Sparrow, n

 

  
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