It is important to report all bird species that you are able to identify, but the following is a list of our priority species for the IBA program in Arizona. If you are birding and see any of these species, especially in an IBA it would really help us out if you could report them on eBird!
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Clark’s Grebe |
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American Bittern |
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Least Bittern |
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California Condor |
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Wood Duck |
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Osprey |
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Mississippi Kite |
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Bald Eagle |
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Northern Goshawk |
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Apache Northern Goshawk |
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Gray Hawk |
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Common Black-Hawk |
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Swainson’s Hawk |
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Ferruginous Hawk |
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Northern Aplomado Falcon |
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Golden Eagle |
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Crested Caracara |
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Peregrine Falcon (American. ssp) |
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Prairie Falcon |
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Gould’s Turkey |
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Dusky Grouse |
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Masked Bobwhite |
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Scaled Quail |
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Montezuma Quail |
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Black Rail (CA) |
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Clapper Rail (Yuma) |
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Snowy Plover (Western pop.) |
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Mountain Plover |
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Long-billed Curlew (Winter) |
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California Least Tern |
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Thick-billed Parrot |
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Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo |
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Flammulated Owl |
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Whiskered Screech-Owl |
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Mountain Pygmy-Owl |
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Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl |
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Elf Owl |
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Burrowing Owl |
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Mexican Spotted Owl |
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Common Nighthawk |
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Mexican Whip-poor-Will |
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Buff-collared Nightjar |
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Broad-billed Hummingbird |
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Blue-throated Hummingbird |
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Magnificent Hummingbird |
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Violet-crowned Hummingbird |
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Lucifer Hummingbird |
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Costa’s Hummingbird |
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Elegant Trogon |
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Belted Kingfisher |
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Lewis’s Woodpecker |
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Gila Woodpecker |
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Williamson’s Sapsucker |
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Red-naped Sapsucker |
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Arizona Woodpecker |
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Am. Three-toed Woodpecker |
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Gilded Flicker |
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Northern Beardless Tyrannulet |
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Olive-sided Flycatcher |
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Willow Flycatcher (SW ssp) |
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Buff-breasted Flycatcher |
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Dusky-capped Flycatcher |
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Tropical Kingbird |
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Thick-billed Kingbird |
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Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher |
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Rose-throated Becard |
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Loggerhead Shrike |
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Bell’s Vireo |
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Gray Vireo |
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Gray Jay |
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Pinyon Jay |
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Black-billed Magpie |
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Western Purple Martin |
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Desert Purple Martin |
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Juniper Titmouse |
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Veery |
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Mexican Chickadee |
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Pacific Wren |
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American Dipper |
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Black-capped Gnatcatcher |
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Azure (Eastern) Bluebird |
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Swainson’s Thrush |
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Gray Catbird |
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Sage Thrasher |
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Bendire’s Thrasher |
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Le Conte’s Thrasher |
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Sprague’s Pipit (Winter) |
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Olive Warbler |
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Virginia’s Warbler |
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Lucy’s Warbler |
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Yellow Warbler (sonorana ssp.only) |
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MacGillivray’s Warbler |
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Black-throated Gray Warbler |
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Grace’s Warbler |
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Red-faced Warbler |
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Canyon Towhee |
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Abert’s Towhee |
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Rufous-winged Sparrow |
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Five-striped Sparrow |
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Western Grasshopper Sparrow |
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AZ Grasshopper Sparrow |
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Cassin’s Sparrow |
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Botteri’s Sparrow |
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Brewer’s Sparrow |
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Black-chinned Sparrow |
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Sage Sparrow |
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Lark Bunting (Winter) |
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Baird’s Sparrow (Winter) |
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Savannah Sparrow |
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Lincoln’s Sparrow |
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Yellow-eyed Junco |
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McCown’s Longspur (Winter) |
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Chestnut-collarded Longspur (Winter) |
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Pine Grosbeak |
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Varied Bunting |
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Cassin’s Finch |
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Pine Grosbeak |
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Lawrence’s Goldfinch (Winter) |
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Evening Grosbeak |
