Bed & Breakfast, Guest Ranch Arizona Birding Hot Spot
Sandhill Cranes near Sunglow Ranch
Enjoy a bed and breakfast birding adventure in style at Arizona's mountain in guest ranch. Southeastern Arizona is a geological maze of grasslands and wetlands to forests of pine, oak and towering rock formations, creating one of the richest birding regions on the continent. Over 500 different species, both vagrant and common residents, have been recorded in this lush Chiricahuan environment. It is a major migratory path and home to numerous species of birds.
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 to our growing list.
- 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
-
Kingfishers
- Belted Kingfisher
- Kinglets
- Ruby Crowned Kinglet
- 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
- Cookoos 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
Bird headings and spelling from The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America. Sounds of the Western Screech Owl heard on our opening page are courtesy of Ask A Biologist.
