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ALL TAKEN ON SITE AT WAY OUT WEST

Birding
Way Out West

Our House "Life" List

NON-PASSERINE BIRDS:

Diurnal raptors:

Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Zone-tailed Hawk
Swainson’s Hawk
Harris’ Hawk
Golden Eagle
Cooper’s Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Northern Harrier
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon

Nocturnal birds:
Poor-will
Lesser Nighthawk
Great Horned Owl
Western Screech Owl
Elf Owl
Cooper's Hawk - Accipiter cooperii
Huge primitive soaring birds :
Turkey Vulture
Great Blue Heron
Swifts:
White-throated Swift
Cuckoos:
Greater Roadrunner
Gambel's Quail - Calipepla gambelii
Game birds:
Gambel’s Quail
Scaled Quail
Northern Bob-white Quail
Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura
Mourning Dove
White-winged Dove
Inca Dove
All Photos Taken on the premises of Way Out West
Hummingbirds:
Anna’s Hummingbird
Costa’s Hummingbird
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
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Broad-billed Hummingbird
Allen’s Hummingbird
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Blue-throated Hummingbird
Woodpeckers:
Gila Woodpecker
Ladderback Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Red-naped Sapsucker
Yellow shafted Flicker
Red-shafted Flicker
Gilded Flicker - Colaptes chrysoides
Gilded Flicker
PASSERINE BIRDS:

Flycatchers:
Vermilion Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Brown-crested Flycatcher
Empidonax species (flycatchers)
Western Kingbird
Say’s Phoebe
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scrubjay
Corvids:
Common Raven
Scrub Jay (left)
Gray-breasted (Mexican) Jay
Steller’s Jay

Mimic Thrushes, true Thrushes, Wrens:

Bewick’s Wren
House Wren
Cactus Wren
Rock Wren
Curve-billed Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
American Robin
Hermit Thrush

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Shrikes:
Loggerhead Shrike
the Phainopepla:
Phainopepla
Icterids:
Great-tailed Grackle
(Desert Grassland) Eastern Meadowlark
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Hooded Oriole
Bullock’s Oriole
Scotts Oriole
Swallows:
Purple Martin
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Tanagers:
Western Tanager
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Tiny Twit-birds:
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
White-breasted Nuthatch
Verdin (left)
Bushtit
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Bell’s Vireo
Lucy’s Warbler
Audubon’s (Yellow-rumped) Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend’s Warbler
Hermit Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
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ALL TAKEN AT WAY OUT WEST
Sparrows and more Finches:
Black-throated Sparrow
Rufous-winged Sparrow
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Brewer’s Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco (multiple subspecies)
Oregon
Pink-sided
Gray-headed
Slate-colored
White-crowned Sparrow
House Sparrow
House Finch
Cassins Finch
Red Crossbill
Rufous-winged Sparrow - Aimophila carpalis

Lawrence's Goldfinch - Cardeulis lawrencei
various Finch-like Birds:
Black-headed Grosbeak
Abert’s Towhee
Canyon (Brown) Towhee
Spotted (Rufous-sided) Towhee
Green-tailed Towhee
Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
American Goldfinch
Lesser Goldfinch
Lawrence’s Goldfinch (left, bathing)
Pine Siskin
Lazuli Bunting
Lark Bunting
no Starlings yet: We are far outside of the city