The following is a list of species known to occur on the Pinaleño Mountains, Graham County, Arizona.
It has been adapted from "Birds of the Pinaleņo Mountians", USDA Forest Service, Safford Ranger District
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Photo by John Dempsey | Photo by John Dempsey |
Summer Species |
Habitat codes for the folowing table:
(lack of a symbol indicates bird may be found throughout)
R = Riparian areas such as Wet Canyon, Noon Creek and Gillespie Wash.
W= Open Water, ponds, stock tanks and reservoirs such as Frye Mesa Reservoir.
D= Desert scrub, mesquite-creosote bush habitats, desert grasslands, arroyos or washes such as along lower Swift Trail and Hwy 266.
J = Various combinations of juniper with oaks, pinon pine and manzanita such as above Noon Creek to Arcadia on South and west facing slopes and Stockton Pass.
P = Ponderosa (and other) pines and Douglas-fir along Swift Trail from Arcadia to Riggs Lake.
S = Spruce-fir belt above Old Columbine Cabins to the summits.
I = Areas near ranch houses such as Angle Orchard.
Species | Abundant | Common | Fairly Common |
Rare | Casual or Accidental |
Uncommon | Habitat |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Great Blue Heron | |||||||
Turkey vulture | |||||||
Sharp-shinned Hawk | |||||||
Cooper's hawk | |||||||
Northern Goshawk | |||||||
Swainson's Hawk | |||||||
Zone-tailed Hawk | |||||||
Red-tailed Hawk | |||||||
Golden Eagle | |||||||
American Kestrel | |||||||
Peregrine Falcon | |||||||
Wild Turkey | |||||||
Montezuma Quail | |||||||
Scaled Quail | |||||||
Gambel's Quail | |||||||
Common Moorhen | |||||||
Rock Dove | |||||||
Ban-tailed pigeon | |||||||
White-winged Dove | |||||||
Mourning Dove | |||||||
Greater Roadrunner | |||||||
Common Barn Owl | |||||||
Flammulated owl | |||||||
Western Screech-Owl | |||||||
Great Horned Owl | |||||||
Northern Pygmy-Owl | |||||||
Elf Owl | |||||||
Spotted Owl | |||||||
Northern Saw-whet Owl | |||||||
Lesser Nighthawk | |||||||
Common Nighthawk | |||||||
Common Poorwill | |||||||
Whip-poor-will | |||||||
White-throated Swift | |||||||
Blue-throated Hmmingbird | |||||||
Magnificent Hummingbird | |||||||
Black-chinned Hummingbird | |||||||
Anna's Hummingbird | |||||||
Broad-tailed Hummingbird | |||||||
Belted Kingfisher | |||||||
Acorn Woodpecker | |||||||
Gila Woodpecker | |||||||
Ladder-backed Woodpecker | |||||||
Downy Woodpecker | |||||||
Hairy Woodpecker | |||||||
Strickland's Woodpecker | |||||||
Northern Flicker | |||||||
Greater Pewee | |||||||
Western Wood-Pewee | |||||||
Dusky Flycatcher | |||||||
Gray Flycatcher | |||||||
Cordilleran Flycatcher | |||||||
Black Phoebe | |||||||
Say's Phoebe | |||||||
Vermillion Flycatcher | |||||||
Dusky-capped Flycatcher | |||||||
Ash-throated Flycatcher | |||||||
Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher | |||||||
Cassin's Kingbird | |||||||
Western Kingbird | |||||||
Horned lark | |||||||
Violet-green Swallow | |||||||
Rough-winged Swallow | |||||||
Cliff Swallow | |||||||
Barn Swallow | |||||||
Stellar's Jay | |||||||
Scrub Jay | |||||||
Gray-breasted Jay | |||||||
Pinyon Jay | |||||||
Clark's Nutcracker | |||||||
Common Raven | |||||||
Mountain Chickadee | |||||||
Bridled Titmouse | |||||||
Plain Titmouse | |||||||
Verdin | |||||||
Bushtit | |||||||
Red-breasted Nuthatch | |||||||
White-breasted Nuthatch | |||||||
Pygmy Nuthatch | |||||||
Brown Creeper | |||||||
Cactus Wren | |||||||
Rock Wren | |||||||
Canyon Wren | |||||||
Bewick's Wren | |||||||
House Wren | |||||||
American Dipper | |||||||
Golden-crowned Kinglet | |||||||
Ruby-crowned Kinglet | |||||||
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | |||||||
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher | |||||||
Western Bluebird | |||||||
Townsend's Solitaire | |||||||
Hermit Thrush | |||||||
American Robin | |||||||
Northern Mockingbird | |||||||
Curve-billed Thrasher | |||||||
Crissal Trasher | |||||||
Phainopepla | |||||||
Loggerhead Shrike | |||||||
European Starling | |||||||
Bell's Vireo | |||||||
Solitary Vireo | |||||||
Hutton's Vireo | |||||||
Warbling Vireo | |||||||
Orange-crowned Warbler | |||||||
Virginia's Warbler | |||||||
Lucy's Warbler | |||||||
Yellow-rumped Warbler | |||||||
Black-throated Gray Warbler | |||||||
Townsend's Warbler | |||||||
Hermit Warbler | |||||||
Grace's Warbler | |||||||
Red-faced Warbler | |||||||
Painted-Redstart | |||||||
Yellow-breasted Chat | |||||||
Olive Warbler | |||||||
Hepatic Tanager | |||||||
Summer Tanager | |||||||
Western Tanager | |||||||
Northern Cardinal | |||||||
Pyrrhuloxia | |||||||
Black-headed Grosbeak | |||||||
Rufous-sided Towhee | |||||||
Canyon Towhee | |||||||
Rufous-crowned Sparrow | |||||||
Chipping Sparrow | |||||||
Black-throated sparrow | |||||||
White-crowned Sparrow | |||||||
Yellow-eyed Junco | |||||||
Red-winged Blackbird | |||||||
western Meadowlark | |||||||
Yellow-headed Blackbird | |||||||
Brown-headed Cowbird | |||||||
Hooded Oriole | |||||||
Northern Oriole | |||||||
Scott's Oriole | |||||||
House Finch | |||||||
Red Crossbill | |||||||
Pine Siskin | |||||||
Lesser Goldfinch | |||||||
Evening Grosbeak | |||||||
House Sparrow |
Habitat codes for the folowing table:
(lack of a symbol indicates bird may be found throughout)
R = Riparian areas such as Wet Canyon, Noon Creek and Gillespie Wash.
W= Open Water, ponds, stock tanks and reservoirs such as Frye Mesa Reservoir.
D= Desert scrub, mesquite-creosote bush habitats, desert grasslands, arroyos or washes such as along lower Swift Trail and Hwy 266.
J = Various combinations of juniper with oaks, pinon pine and manzanita such as above Noon Creek to Arcadia on South and west facing slopes and Stockton Pass.
P = Ponderosa (and other) pines and Douglas-fir along Swift Trail from Arcadia to Riggs Lake.
S = Spruce-fir belt above Old Columbine Cabins to the summits.
I = Areas near ranch houses such as Angle Orchard.
Species | Abundant | Common | Fairly Common |
Rare | Casual or Accidental |
Uncommon | Habitat |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pied-billed Grebe | |||||||
Great Blue Heron | |||||||
Great Egret | |||||||
White-faced Ibis | |||||||
Green-winged Teal | |||||||
Mallard | |||||||
Northern Pintail | |||||||
Blue-winged Teal | |||||||
Cinnamon Teal | |||||||
Northern Shoveler | |||||||
American Widgeon | |||||||
Redhead | |||||||
Ring-necked Duck | |||||||
Bufflehead | |||||||
Ruddy Duck | |||||||
Turkey Vulture | |||||||
Bald Eagle | |||||||
Sharp-shinned Hawk | |||||||
Cooper's Hawk | |||||||
Northern Goshawk | |||||||
Swainson's Hawk | |||||||
Red-tailed Hawk | |||||||
Ferruginous Hawk | |||||||
Golden Eagle | |||||||
American Kestrel | |||||||
Peregrine Falcon | |||||||
Prairie Flacon | |||||||
Wild Turkey | |||||||
Montezuma Quail | |||||||
Scaled Quail | |||||||
Gambel's Quail | |||||||
Common Moorhen | |||||||
Sandhill Crane | |||||||
Rock Dove | |||||||
Band-tailed Pigeon | |||||||
White-winged Dove | |||||||
Mourning Dove | |||||||
Thick-billed Parrot | |||||||
Greater Roadrunner | |||||||
Common Barn Owl | |||||||
Western Screech-Owl | |||||||
Great Horned Owl | |||||||
Northern Pygmy-Owl | |||||||
Spotted Owl | |||||||
Northern Saw-whet Owl | |||||||
White-throated Swift | |||||||
Blue-throated hummingbird | |||||||
Magnificent Hummingbird | |||||||
Black-chinned Hummingbird | |||||||
Anna's Hummingbird | |||||||
Belted-Kingfisher | |||||||
Acorn Woodpecker | |||||||
Gila Woodpecker | |||||||
Red-naped Sapsucker | |||||||
Williamson's Sapsucker | |||||||
Ladder-backed Woodpecker | |||||||
Hairy Woodpecker | |||||||
Strickland's Woodpecker | |||||||
Northern Flickerk | |||||||
Black Phoebe | |||||||
Say's Phoebe | |||||||
Horned Lark | |||||||
Stellar's Jay | |||||||
Scrub Jay | |||||||
Gray-breasted Jay | |||||||
Clark's Nutcracker | |||||||
Common Raven | |||||||
mountain Chickadee | |||||||
Bridled Titmouse | |||||||
Plain Titmouse | |||||||
Verdin | |||||||
Bushtit | |||||||
Red-breasted Nuthatch | |||||||
White-breasted Nuthatch | |||||||
Pygmy Nuthatch | |||||||
Brown Creeper | |||||||
Cactus Wren | |||||||
Rock Wren | |||||||
Canyon Wren | |||||||
Bewick's Wren | |||||||
Golden-crowned Kinglet | |||||||
Ruby-crowned Kinglet | |||||||
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | |||||||
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher | |||||||
Western Bluebird | |||||||
Townsend's Solitaire | |||||||
Hermit Thrush | |||||||
American Robin | |||||||
Northern Mockingbird | |||||||
Curve-billed Thrasher | |||||||
Crissal Thrasher | |||||||
Phainopepla | |||||||
Loggerhead Shrike | |||||||
European Starling | |||||||
Solitary Vireo | |||||||
Hutton's Vireo | |||||||
Yellow-rumped warbler | |||||||
Black-throated Gray Warbler | |||||||
Painted Redstart | |||||||
Western Tanager | |||||||
Norhtern Cardinal | |||||||
Pyrrhuloxia | |||||||
Green-tailed Towhee | |||||||
Rufous-sided Towhee | |||||||
Canyon Towhee | |||||||
Rufous-crowned Sparrow | |||||||
Chipping Sparrow | |||||||
Black-throated Sparrow | |||||||
White-crowned Sparrow | |||||||
Yellow-eyed Junco | |||||||
Dark-eyed Junco | |||||||
Red-winged Blackbird | |||||||
Western Meadowlark | |||||||
Yellow-headed Blackbird | |||||||
Brewer's Blackbird | |||||||
Brown-headed Cowbird | |||||||
Cassin's Finch | |||||||
House Finch | |||||||
Red Crosbill | |||||||
Pine Siskin | |||||||
Lesser Goldfinch | |||||||
American goldfinch | |||||||
Evening Grosbeak | |||||||
House Sparrow |
Habitat codes for the folowing table:
(lack of a symbol indicates bird may be found throughout)
R = Riparian areas such as Wet Canyon, Noon Creek and Gillespie Wash.
W= Open Water, ponds, stock tanks and reservoirs such as Frye Mesa Reservoir.
D= Desert scrub, mesquite-creosote bush habitats, desert grasslands, arroyos or washes such as along lower Swift Trail and Hwy 266.
J = Various combinations of juniper with oaks, pinon pine and manzanita such as above Noon Creek to Arcadia on South and west facing slopes and Stockton Pass.
P = Ponderosa (and other) pines and Douglas-fir along Swift Trail from Arcadia to Riggs Lake.
S = Spruce-fir belt above Old Columbine Cabins to the summits.
I = Areas near ranch houses such as Angle Orchard.
Species | Abundant | Common | Fairly Common |
Rare | Casual or Accidental |
Uncommon | Habitat |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Great Egret | |||||||
Green-winged Teal | |||||||
Mallard | |||||||
Northern Pintail | |||||||
Blue-winged Teal | |||||||
Cinnamon Teal | |||||||
Northern Shoveler | |||||||
American Widgeon | |||||||
Bufflehead | |||||||
hooded Merganser | |||||||
Turkey Vulture | |||||||
Bald Eagle | |||||||
Northern Harrier | |||||||
Sharp-shinned Hawk | |||||||
Cooper's Hawk | |||||||
Zone-tailed Hawk | |||||||
Red-tailed Hawk | |||||||
Golden Eagle | |||||||
American Kestrel | |||||||
Peregrine Falcon | |||||||
Sandhill Crane | |||||||
Mourning Dove | |||||||
Thick-billed parrot | |||||||
Common Nighthawk | |||||||
Whip-poor-will | |||||||
Black-chinned hummingbird | |||||||
Calliope hummingbird | |||||||
Broad-tailed Hummingbird | |||||||
Rufous hummingbird | |||||||
Allen's Hummingbird | |||||||
Red-naped sapsucker | |||||||
Williamson's Sapsucker | |||||||
Downy Woodpecker | |||||||
Olive-sided Flycatcher | |||||||
Hammond's Flycatcher | |||||||
Cordilleran Flycatcher | |||||||
Vermillion Flycatcher | |||||||
Cassin's Kingbird | |||||||
Western Kingbird | |||||||
Violet-green Swallow | |||||||
Cliff Swallow | |||||||
Barn Swallow | |||||||
Pinyon Jay | |||||||
Golden-crowned Kinglet | |||||||
Ruby-crowned Kinglet | |||||||
Townsend's Solitaire | |||||||
Hermit Thrush | |||||||
American Robin | |||||||
Solitary Vireo | |||||||
warbling Vireo | |||||||
Orange-crowned Warbler | |||||||
Virginia's Warbler | |||||||
Chestnut-sided Warbler | |||||||
Yellow-rumped warbler | |||||||
Black-throated Gray Warbler | |||||||
Townsend's Warbler | |||||||
Hermit Warbler | |||||||
Grace's warbler | |||||||
Wilson's warbler | |||||||
red-faced Warbler | |||||||
Painted Redstart | |||||||
Olive Warbler | |||||||
Western Tanager | |||||||
Black-headed Grosbeak | |||||||
Green-tailed Towhee | |||||||
Chipping Sparrow | |||||||
White-crowned Sparrow | |||||||
Dark-eyed Junco | |||||||
Red-winged Blackbird | |||||||
Western Meadowlark | |||||||
Yellow-headed Blackbird | |||||||
Brown-headed Cowbird | |||||||
Hooded oriole | |||||||
Northern Oriole | |||||||
Cassin's Finch |
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