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Over 500 bird species, both migrant and resident, have been recorded in this unusually biodiverse, high-desert, grassland environment. The Chiricahua Mountains, and in particular, Turkey Creek, offers phenomenal birding. Our own feeders bring large bird populations all year 'round.
Birds Identified at Sunglow Ranch/Turkey Creek Area
If you spot a bird that is not on this list, please let us know so that we can add it.
- American Vultures
- Turkey Vulture
- Barn & Typical Owls
- Flammulated Owl
- Great Horned Owl
- Western Screech Owl
- Whiskered Owl
- Bitterns & Herons
- Great Blue Heron
- Green Heron
- Bushtits
- Bushtit
- Blackbirds, Orioles
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Lillian's Eastern Meadowlark
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Bronzed Cowbird
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Bullock's Oriole
- Caracaras & Falcons
- American Kestrel
- Prairie Falcon
- Cardinals, Grosbeaks, Allies
- Northern Cardinal
- Black-headed Grosbeak
- Blue Grosbeak
- Indigo Bunting
- Lazuli Bunting
- Pyrrhuloxia
- Cardueline Finches
- House Finch
- Lesser Goldfinch
- Pine Siskin
- Chickadees & Titmice
- Mexican Chickadee
- Bridled Titmouse
- Doves
- Mourning Dove
- White-winged Dove
- Ducks
- American Wigeon
- Redhead
- Common Merganser
- Mallard
- Cinnamon Teal
- Wood Duck
- Emberzines, Sparrows and Allies
- Canyon Towhee
- Black-chinned Sparrow
- Black-throated Sparrow
- Chipping Sparrow
- House Sparrow
- Lark Sparrow
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Yellow-eyed Junco
- Hawks & Eagles
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Harris's Hawk
- Northern Harrier
- Zone-tailed Hawk
- Golden Eagle
- Hummingbirds
- Allen's Hummingbird
- Anna's Hummingbird
- Black-chinned Hummingbird
- Broad-billed Hummingbird
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Magnificent Hummingbird
- Jays & Ravens
- Mexican Jay
- Steller's Jay
- Chihuahuan Raven
- Common Raven
- Western Scrub Jay
- Pinon Jay
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Kingfishers
- Belted Kingfisher
- Kinglets
- Ruby Crowned Kinglet
- Mockingbirds
- Northern Mockingbird
- Curved Billed Thrasher
- Goatsuckers
- Common Poor-will
- Whip-poor-will
- Nuthatches
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Creepers
- Brown Creeper
- Plovers
- Killdeer
- Quail
- Gambel's Quail
- Scaled Quail
- Mearns Quail
-
Cuckoos and their Allies
- Greater Roadrunner
- Sandpipers
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Shrikes
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Swallows
- Barn Swallow
- Cliff Swallow
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Violet-green Swallow
- Swifts
- White-throated Swift
- Tanagers
- Hepatic Tanager
- Western Tanager
- Thrushes
- American Robin
- Hermit Thrush
- Western Bluebird
- Tyrant Flycatchers
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Dusky Flycatcher
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher
- Hammond's Flycatcher
- Cassin's Kingbird
- Tropical Kingbird
- Western Kingbird
- Greater Pewee
- Western Wood-Pewee
- Say's Phoebe
- Rose Throated Becard
- Vireos
- Hutton's Vireo
- Plumbeous Vireo
- Warbling Vireo
- Wood Warblers
- Audubon's Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Black-throated Warbler
- Grace's Warbler
- MacGillivray's Warbler
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Painted Redstart
- Red-faced Warbler
- Townsend's Warbler
- Virginia's Warbler
- Wilson's Warbler
- Yellow Warbler
- Olive Warbler
- Woodpeckers
- Acorn Woodpecker
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Ladder-back Woodpecker
- Red-naped Sapsucker
- Red-shafted Northern Flicker
- Strickland's Woodpecker
- Arizona Woodpecker
- Gila Woodpecker
- Lewis Woodpecker
- Wrens
- Bewick's Wren