bird guide

DESERT

Ocotillo Wells SVRA

Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis

Year-round resident

Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura

Fall-Winter-Spring resident

Swainson’s Hawk Buteo swainsoni

Migratory

Cooper’s Hawk Accipiter cooperii

Migratory

Photo by JR Douglass, NPS

© 2007 Ron Wolf © 2003, 2005 Joyce Gross

Photo by Don Endicott

Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura

Year-round resident

Prairie Falcon Falco mexicanus

Year-round resident

American Kestrel Falco sparverius

Year-round resident

White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica

Year-round resident

Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto Year-round resident

© 2007 slodocents

Gambel’s Quail Callipepla gambelii Year-round resident

© 2007 Don Getty

© 2006 Robert Harrington © 2007 Stephen Dowlan

© 2008 Christopher L. Christie © 2009 Christopher L. Christie

Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus

Year-round resident

Rock Pigeon Columba livia

Year-round resident

Lesser Nighthawk Chordeiles acutipennis

Summer resident

Great-horned Owl Bubo virginianus

Year-round resident

White-throated Swift Aeronautes saxatalis Year-round resident

Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia Year-round resident

© 2006 Andrea Jesse

© 2003 Mark Bratton

© 2006 Jennifer Riefenberg

© 2005 Jose Navarrete © 2006 Mike Danzenbaker

Photo by John Lynn

Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus Year-round resident

Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis

Migratory

Anna’s Hummingbird Calypte anna

Year-round resident

Ash-throated Flycatcher Myiarchus cinerascens

Summer resident

Say’s Phoebe Sayornis saya

Year-round resident

Costa’s Hummingbird Calypte costae

Year-round resident

© 2007 Don Getty

Photo by Wolfgang Wander

© 2009 Christopher L. Christie © 2008 Christopher L. Christie

© 2009 Christopher L. Christie

© 2006 Stephen Dowlan

Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris Year-round resident

Verdin Auriparus flaviceps Year-round resident

Common Raven Corvus corax

Year-round resident

Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis

Migratory

Cactus Wren Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus

Year-round resident

Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota

Migratory

Photo by Christian O. Petersen

Photograph 2008 by Dori

© 2005 Mark Bratton Photo by Alan and Elaine Wilson

Photo by Alan and Elaine Wilson

Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos

Year-round resident

Le Conte’s Thrasher Toxostoma lecontei Year-round resident

Rock Wren Salpinctes obsoletus Year-round resident

European Starling Sturnus vulgaris

Year-round resident

Black-tailed Gnatcatcher Polioptila melanura Year-round resident

Phainopepla Phainopepla nitens

Winter resident

© 2008 Ron Wolf Photo by Alan Vernon

© 2011 Ben Smith

Photo by Dick Daniels © 2009 Ron Flemal

Photo by Brookhaven National Laboratory

Black-throated Gray Warbler Dendroica nigrescens

Migratory

Orange-crowned Warbler Oreothlypis celata

Migratory

Yellow Warbler Dendroica petechia

Migratory

Yellow-rumped Warbler Dendroica coronata

Migratory

Black-throated Sparrow Amphispiza bilineata Year-round resident

Wilson’s Warbler Wilsonia pusilla

Migratory

© 2008 Christopher L. Christie © 2011 Ron Wolf

© 2009 Christopher L. Christie

Photo by Bigdeazy

© 2006 James Owenby

© 2010 Gus Hallgren

White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys

Winter resident

Scott’s Oriole Icterus parisorum Summer resident

Hooded Oriole Icterus cucullatus Summer resident

House Sparrow Passer domesticus

Year-round resident

Western Meadowlark Sturnella neglecta

Year-round resident

House Finch Carpodacus mexicanus Year-round resident

© 2004 Joyce Gross Photo by Kevin Cole

Photo by Will Elder, NPS © Mark A. Chappell

© 2004 Tom Greer tbphotos@comcast.net © 2004 Tom Greer tbphotos@comcast.net

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