We scored some cool birds while we were in the valley last week; 140 altogether. Some of the specialties and rarities:
Black bellied whistling duck
Mexican mallard
Mottled duck
Plain chachalaca
Least grebe
Neotropic cormorant
Anhinga
Black vulture
White tailed kite
Gray hawk
Harris’s hawk
White tailed hawk
Crested caracara
Solitary sandpiper
Gull billed tern
Caspian tern
Red billed pigeon
Common ground dove
White tipped dove
Green parakeet
Red crowned parrot
Common pauraque
Buff bellied hummingbird
Ringed kingfisher
Green kingfisher
Golden fronted woodpecker
Northern beardless tyrannulet
Vermilion flycatcher
Ash throated flycatcher
Great kiskadee
Couch’s kingbird
Scissor tailed flycatcher
White eyed vireo
Green jay
Chihuahuan raven
Black crested titmouse
Clay colored robin
White throated robin (try to find that one in your bird book)
Long billed thrasher
Black throated green warbler
Yellow throated warbler
Black and white warbler
Wilson’s warbler
Yellow breasted chat
Summer tanager
Scarlet tanager
Olive sparrow
Cassin’s sparrow
Botteri’s sparrow
Swamp sparrow
Bronzed cowbird
Hooded oriole
Audubon’s oriole
