"Hummerfest" in SE AZ August, 2007

This trip was run at the height of the hummingbird migration. Sites visited included:  Mt. Lemmon, Saguaro National Park, California Gulch, Madera Canyon, Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve, Patagonia State Park, Ramsey and Miller Canyons, San Pedro River, the Chiricahua Mountains/Rustler Park area, and the Cave Creek/Portal area.  

SE Arizona is known for its resident, migrants, and Mexican vagrant birds; awesome butterflies; magnificent “sky islands”; and its eight biomes:  desert scrub (Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts), grassland, interior chaparral, evergreen woodland (Juniper/Pinyon Pine-Oak), conifer forest (Engelmann Spruce/Douglas Fir), riparian woodland, wetlands and tundra.  The sites we visited represent the best SE Arizona has to offer.  For example, Cave Creek Canyon is possibly the most bio-diverse area in North American.

The trip proved to be so popular that it was run in two back-to-back groups, one from 6–12 August and one from 13–19 August.

Photo galleries of the trip:

• Birds
• Scenery

Combined Bird list:

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Mallard (Mexican Duck) Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Redhead Common Goldeneye Lesser Scaup Ruddy Duck Wild Turkey Scaled Quail Gambel's Quail Montezuma Quail Pied-billed Grebe Eared Grebe American White Pelican Brown Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron White-faced Ibis Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey White-tailed Kite Mississippi Kite Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Common Black-Hawk Harris's Hawk Gray Hawk Swainson's Hawk Zone-tailed Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Golden Eagle Crested Caracara American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Prairie Falcon Clapper Rail Virginia Rail Sora Common Moorhen American Coot Black-bellied Plover Snowy Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Willet Lesser Yellowlegs Whimbrel Long-billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Ring-billed Gull California Gull Black Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Rock Pigeon Band-tailed Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove White-winged Dove Mourning Dove Inca Dove Common Ground-Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Greater Roadrunner Barn Owl Fammulated Owl Western Screech-Owl Whiskered Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Northern Pygmy-Owl Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl Elf Owl Burrowing Owl Spotted Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Lesser Nighthawk Common Nighthawk Common Poorwill Buff-collared Nightjar Whip-poor-will White-throated Swift Broad-billed Hummingbird White-eared Hummingbird Berylline Hummingbird Violet-crowned Hummingbird Blue-throated Hummingbird Magnificent Hummingbird Lucifer Hummingbird Black-chinned Hummingbird Anna's Hummingbird Costa's Hummingbird Calliope Hummingbird Broad-tailed Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Elegant Trogon Belted Kingfisher Green Kingfisher Acorn Woodpecker Gila Woodpecker Williamson's Sapsucker Ladder-backed Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Arizona Woodpecker Northern Flicker Gilded Flicker Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet Olive-sided Flycatcher Greater Pewee Western Wood-Pewee Willow Flycatcher Hammond's Flycatcher Gray Flycatcher Dusky Flycatcher Pacific-slope Flycatcher Cordilleran Flycatcher Buff-breasted Flycatcher Black Phoebe Say's Phoebe Vermilion Flycatcher Dusky-capped Flycatcher Ash-throated Flycatcher Brown-crested Flycatcher Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Tropical Kingbird Cassin's Kingbird Thick-billed Kingbird Western Kingbird Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Rose-throated Becard Loggerhead Shrike Bell's Vireo Gray Vireo Plumbeous Vireo Hutton's Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Steller's Jay Western Scrub-Jay Mexican Jay Chihuahuan Raven Common Raven Horned Lark Purple Martin Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Mountain Chickadee Mexican Chickadee Bridled Titmouse Juniper Titmouse Verdin Bushtit Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Pygmy Nuthatch Brown Creeper Cactus Wren Rock Wren Canyon Wren Bewick's Wren House Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Black-tailed Gnatcatcher Black-capped Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Western Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Robin Northern Mockingbird Bendire's Thrasher Curve-billed Thrasher Crissal Thrasher European Starling Phainopepla Olive Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Virginia's Warbler Lucy's Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend's Warbler Hermit Warbler Grace's Warbler Northern Waterthrush MacGillivray's Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Red-faced Warbler Painted Redstart Rufous-capped Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Hepatic Tanager Summer Tanager Western Tanager Flame-colored Tanager Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee Canyon Towhee Abert's Towhee Rufous-winged Sparrow Cassin's Sparrow Botteri's Sparrow Rufous-crowned Sparrow Five-striped Sparrow (Heard Only) Chipping Sparrow Black-chinned Sparrow Lark Sparrow Black-throated Sparrow Lark Bunting Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Song Sparrow Yellow-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Pyrrhuloxia Black-headed Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Indigo Bunting Varied Bunting Painted Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Great-tailed Grackle Bronzed Cowbird Brown-headed Cowbird Hooded Oriole Bullock's Oriole Scott's Oriole House Finch Red Crossbill Pine Siskin Lesser Goldfinch Lawrence's Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak House Sparrow Return to CBC Bonus Trips index Return to CBC Main Page Restore the navigation sidebar