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Among the 340+ species of birds seen on past Sonora trips are the following.  Please note that the species seen on each trip vary with the itinerary.  Some trips include the Sea of Cortez and Alamos areas, while others include the deserts, tropical deciduous forest, and the Sierra Madre;

Least Grebe
Blue-footed booby
Brown booby

Magnificent frigatebird

Bare-throated tiger heron

Little blue heron

Tricolored heron

Reddish egret

Black-crowned night heron

Yellow crowned night heron

Roseate spoonbill

White ibis  

White-faced ibis

Wood stork

Black-bellied whistling duck  

Black vulture

Northern goshawk

Common black hawk

Gray hawk

Crane hawk

Short-tailed hawk

Zone-tailed hawk

White-tailed kite

Northern caracara

Rufous-bellied chachalaca

Elegant quail

Clapper rail

Snowy plover

Wilson's plover

American oystercatcher

Ruddy turnstone

Black turnstone

Surfbird

Yellow-footed gull

Laughing gull  

Gull-billed tern

Elegant tern

Royal tern

Least tern

Common tern

Black tern

Red-billed pigeon

White-tipped dove

Ruddy ground dove

White-fronted parrot

Lilac-crowned parrot

Blue-rumped parrotlet

Squirrel cuckoo

Lesser roadrunner  

Groove-billed ani  

Ferruginous pygmy owl

Burrowing owl

Buff-collared nightjar

Plain-capped starthroat  

White-eared hummingbird  

Berylline hummingbird

Violet-crowned hummingbird  

Elegant trogon  

Mountain trogon

Green kingfisher  

Russet-crowned motmot

Gilded flicker

Gray-crowned woodpecker

White-striped woodcreeper  

Northern beardless tyrannulet

Buff-breasted flycatcher

Nutting’s flycatcher

Tufted flycatcher

Social flycatcher

Great kiskadee  

Thick-billed kingbird 

Tropical kingbird

Sulphur bellied flycatcher

Rose-throated becard

Mangrove swallow

Purplish-backed jay

Black-throated magpie jay  

Spotted wren

Happy wren

Sinaloa wren

Black-capped gnatcatcher

Blue mockingbird

Brown-backed solitaire  

Orange-billed nightingale thrush

Russet nightingale thrush

White-throated robin

Rufous-backed robin  

Gray silky flycatcher

Crescent-chested warbler

Slate-throated redstart  

Painted redstart

Rufous-capped warbler

Fan-tailed warbler

Olive warbler

Flame-colored tanager

Red-headed tanager

Yellow grosbeak

Varied bunting

Painted bunting

Five-striped sparrow

Rufous-winged sparrow

Streak-backed oriole

Black-vented oriole 

Orchard oriole

Elegant euphonia

 


Last updated: April 12, 2008.