List of birds of the Madrean Sky Islands
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This is a list of birds that have been observed in the Madrean Sky Islands, which are enclaves of Madrean pine-oak woodlands, found at higher elevations in a complex of small mountain ranges in southern and southeastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and northwestern Mexico. The Sky Islands are surrounded at lower elevations by the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts.[1]
- Varied bunting
- Bushtit
- Mexican chickadee
- Cordilleran flycatcher
- American dusky flycatcher
- American grey flycatcher
- Hammond's flycatcher
- Nutting's flycatcher
- Sulphur-bellied flycatcher
- Black-tailed gnatcatcher
- Lawrence's goldfinch
- Black-headed grosbeak
- Anna's hummingbird
- Berylline hummingbird
- Black-chinned hummingbird
- Blue-throated hummingbird
- Broad-billed hummingbird
- Broad-tailed hummingbird
- Lucifer hummingbird
- Magnificent hummingbird
- Violet-crowned hummingbird
- White-eared hummingbird
- Mexican jay
- Cassin's kingbird
- Thick-billed kingbird
- Chestnut-collared longspur
- Thick-billed longspur
- Buff-collared nightjar
- Pygmy nuthatch
- Elf owl
- Flammulated owl
- Spotted owl
- Whiskered screech-owl
- Thick-billed parrot
- Pyrrhuloxia
- Gambel's quail
- Montezuma quail
- Eared quetzal
- Chihuahuan raven
- Painted redstart
- Baird's sparrow
- Five-striped sparrow
- Plain-capped starthroat
- Bendire's thrasher
- Bridled titmouse
- Juniper titmouse
- Elegant trogon
- Hutton's vireo
- Plumbeous vireo
- Grace's warbler
- Olive warbler
- Red-faced warbler
- Acorn woodpecker
- Arizona woodpecker
- Gila woodpecker
- Brown-throated wren
References
[edit]- ^ Flesch, Aaron D.; Hahn, Lisa A. (2005). "Distribution of birds and plants at the western and southern edges of the Madrean Sky Islands in Sonora, Mexico". In: Gottfried, Gerald J.; Gebow, Brooke S.; Eskew, Lane G.; Edminster, Carleton B., Comps. Connecting Mountain Islands and Desert Seas: Biodiversity and Management of the Madrean Archipelago II. Proc. RMRS-P-36. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station: 80-87. 036.