It’s been a really good week for me and my birding group. We ended on 182 species in seven days of birding in beautiful southeast Arizona, all achieved in a laid back manner without once starting before 6:30 a.m.!

Highlights included (in systematic order) LEAST GREBE, SCALED QUAIL, GRAY and ZONE-TAILED HAWKS, MARBLED GODWIT, RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, BAND-TAILED PIGEON, INCA and COMMON GROUND-DOVES, GREATER ROADRUNNER, WESTERN SCREECH, NORTHERN PYGMY, ELF, BURROWING and SPOTTED OWLS, COMMON POORWILL, MEXICAN WHIP-POOR-WILL, BROAD-BILLED, WHITE-EARED, VIOLET-CROWNED, BLUE-THROATED, MAGNIFICENT, COSTA’S and BROAD-TAILED HUMMINGBIRDS, ELEGANT TROGON, ARIZONA WOODPECKER, GILDED FLICKER, NORTHERN BEARDLESS-TYRANNULET, GREATER PEWEE, OLIVE-SIDED, CORDILLERAN, BUFF-BREASTED, VERMILION, DUSKY-CAPPED, ASH-THROATED and BROWN-CRESTED FLYCATCHERS, TROPICAL and THICK-BILLED KINGBIRDS, PLUMBEOUS, HUTTON’S and WARBLING VIREOS, MEXICAN and WESTERN-SCRUB JAYS, CHIHUAHUAN RAVEN, MEXICAN CHICKADEE, BRIDLED and JUNIPER TITMOUSE, PYGMY NUTHATCH, BLACK-TAILED GNATCATCHER, PHAINOPEPLA, VIRGINIA’S, LUCY’S, BLACK-THROATED GRAY, TOWNSEND’S, GRACE’S, RED-FACED and OLIVE WARBLERS, PAINTED REDSTART, YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, GREEN-TAILED, SPOTTED, ABERT’S and CANYON TOWHEES, RUFOUS-WINGED, RUFOUS-CROWNED, BOTTERI’S, FIVE-STRIPED and GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS, YELLOW-EYED JUNCO, HEPATIC TANAGER, PYRRHULOXIA, BLACK-HEADED and BLUE GROSBEAKS, LAZULI BUNTING, BRONZED COWBIRD and HOODED, BULLOCK’S and SCOTT’S ORIOLES.

Wow! And we saw more than a hundred other species that I haven’t even mentioned.

Would you like to experience an exciting birding tour in southeast Arizona like this one? Of course you would! Please see our scheduled Arizona birding tours, or contact us to plan a custom Arizona birding tour for you and your group.