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The following list is based on winter observations over a period of about five years. The frequency of occurence and the ease of seeing the birds is indicated by a letter and a number. The letter indicates observed status; the number, the ease of finding the bird.
R = winter resident, migrating birds that have been staying here every winter, for the past five years. V = visitors, birds that may or may not appear at any time during the winter. You need some luck to see them. M = migrants, birds only passing through, in the late fall or early spring. |
Ease of finding. This is based on observation in the birds preferred habitat, and doesn't apply elsewhere.
1 = Abundant, seen on every or almost all outings. 2 = Easy to find, seen on most outings. 3 = Not so easy, but seen on several outings each winter. 4 = Difficult, A rare or very retiring bird, you need to know its habitat and you need patience and perseverance, or just plain luck. 5 = You need a lot of luck for this one, seen only once or twice, but sometimes not seen, each winter. |
| Grebes | Hummingbirds | Vireos | |||
| Least grebe | R 2 | Broad-billed hummingbird | R 2 | Blackcapped vireo | R 4 |
| Pied billed grebe | R 2 | Mexican woodnymph | R 4 | Solitary vireo | R 2 |
| Eared grebe | V | White-eared hummingbird | R 4 | Golden vireo | R 3 |
| Pelicans | Beryline hummingbird | R 4 | Warbling vireo | R 2 | |
| White pelican | V | Cinnamon hummingbird | R 3 | Wood warblers | |
| Cormorants | Violet-crowned hummingbird | R 2 | Orange-crowned warbler | R 2 | |
| Olivacious cormorant | R 1 | Blue-throated hummingbird | R 3 | Nashville warbler | R 2 |
| Herons | Magnificent hummingbird | R 4 | Virginia's warbler | M | |
| Great blue heron | R 2 | Plain-capped starthroat | R 4 | Lucy's warbler | R 5 |
| Great egret | R 1 | Sparkling-tailed hummingbird | R 5 | Northern parula | R 5 |
| Snowy egret | R 2 | Black-chinned hummingbird | R 3 | Tropical parula | R 4 |
| Little blue heron | R 2 | Broad-tailed hummingbird | R 4 | Yellow warbler | R 3 |
| Tri-colored heron | V | Trogons | Yellow-rumped (Aud.) warbler | R 3 | |
| Cattle egret | R 3 | Citreoline trogon | V 5 | Yellow-rumped(Myrtle) warbler | M |
| Green heron | R 2 | Mountain trogon | V 5 | Black-throated grey warbler | R 3 |
| Black-crowned night heron | R 2 | Elegant trogon | V 5 | Townsend's warbler | R 5 |
| Ducks | Motmots | Black and white warbler | R 3 | ||
| Blue-winged teal | V | Russet-crowned motmot | R 4 | Oven bird | M |
| Northern shoveler | V | Kingfishers | Louisiana waterthrush | R 4 | |
| Gadwall | V | Belted kingfisher | R 1 | MacGillivray's warbler | R 2 |
| Ring-necked duck | V | Green kingfisher | R 3 | Common yellowthroat | R 2 |
| Greater scaup | R | Neotropical creepers | Grey-crowned yellowthroat | R 4 | |
| Lesser scaup | R 1 | Ivory-billed creeper | R 3 | Wilson's warbler | R 2 |
| Ruddy duck | V | Flycatchers | Painted redstart | R 4 | |
| Vultures | Greenish eleania | R 4 | Slate-throated redstart | R 5 | |
| Black vulture | R 1 | Tufted flycatcher | R 3 | Fan-tailed warbler | R 5 |
| Turkey vulture | R 1 | Greater pewee | R 3 | Rufous-capped warbler | R 3 |
| Ospreys | Cordilleran flycatcher | R 2 | Golden-browed warbler | R 5 | |
| Osprey | R 3 | Black phoebe | R 4 | Yellow-breasted chat | R 5 |
| Hawks etc. | Say's phoebe | M | Red-breasted chat | R 5 | |
| Northern harrier | V | Vermillion flycatcher | R 1 | Tanagers | |
| Sharp-shinned hawk | V | Bright-rumped atilla | V | Blue-hooded euphonia | R 2 |
| Coopers hawk | V | Myiarchus flyc.,Kingbirds | Scrub euphonia | R 2 | |
| Grey hawk | R 1 | Ash-throated flycatcher | R 4 | Summer tanager | R 2 |
| Short-tailed hawk | V | Brown-crested flycatcher | R 4 | Hepatic tanager | R 2 |
| Zone-tailed hawk | V | Dusky-capped(olivaceous)f. | R 3 | Western tanager | R 2 |
| Red-tailed hawk | V | Flammulated flycatcher | M 3 | Flame-colored tanager | R 5 |
| Falcons | Great kiskadee | R 1 | Rosy thrush tanager | R 5 | |
| Laughing falcon | V | Social flycatcher | R 1 | Grosbeaks and buntings | |
| Collared forest falcon | V | Tropical kingbird | R 2 | Grayish saltater | R 3 |
| American kestrel | R 2 | Cassin's kingbird | R 2 | Yellow grosbeak | R 3 |
| Chachalacas | Thick-billed kingbird | R 2 | Black-headed grosbeak | R 2 | |
| Rufous-bellied chachalaca | R 3 | Western kingbird | V | Blue bunting | R 5 |
| Railes, gallinules | Cotingas | Blue grosbeak | R 2 | ||
| Sora rail | R 4 | Grey-collared becard | R 4 | Lazuli bunting | R 5 |
| Common moorhen | R 2 | Rose-throated becard | R 4 | Indigo bunting | R 4 |
| American coot | R 1 | Masked tityra | R 3 | Varied bunting | R 2 |
| Sandpipers | Swallows | Painted bunting | R 1 | ||
| Spotted sandpiper | R 2 | Violet-green swallow | R 1 | Seedeaters and sparrows | |
| Caspian tern | V | N. Rough-winged swallow | R 1 | Rusty-crowned ground sparrow | R 3 |
| Pigeons, doves | Cliff's swallow | M 4 | Green-tailed towhee | V | |
| Red-billed pigeon | R 2 | Bank's swallow | M 4 | Spotted towhee | V |
| White-winged dove | R 1 | Barn's swallow | M 2 | Blue-black grassquit | R 2 |
| Mourning dove | R 3 | Crows and jays | White-collared seedeater | R 2 | |
| Inca dove | R 1 | Black-throated magpie jay | R 2 | Ruddy-breasted seedeater | V |
| Common ground-dove | R 1 | White-throated magpie jay | V 5 | Five-striped sparrow | V |
| Ruddy ground-dove | R 2 | Green jay | V | Stripe-headed sparrow | R 2 |
| White-tipped dove | R 3 | Wrens | Botten's sparrow | M | |
| Parrots | Spotted wren | R 4 | Rufous-crowned sparrow | M | |
| Orange-fronted parakeet | R 3 | Canyon wren | R 5 | Chipping sparrow | M |
| Mex. blue-rumped parrotlet | R 2 | Sinaloa(bar-vented) wren | R 4 | Clay-colored sparrow | M |
| Cuckoos, anis | Happy wren | R 3 | Brewer's sparrow | M | |
| Squirrel cuckoo | R 2 | Northern house-wren | R 3 | Lark sparrow | M |
| Lesser ground cuckoo | R 5 | Gnatcatchers | Savannah sparrow | M | |
| Leser roadrunner | R 4 | Blue-grey natcatcher | R 1 | Sierra Madre sparrow | M |
| Groove-billed ani | R 1 | Thrushes and allies | Lincoln sparrow | M | |
| Owls | Rufous-backed thrush | R 2 | Blackbirds,Orioles | ||
| Western screech owl | V | White-throated thrush | R 3 | Red-winged blackbird | M |
| Mountain pygmy owl | V | Brown-backed solitair | R 3 | Great-tailed grackle | V |
| Least pygmy owl | V | Orange-billed nightingale thr. | R 3 | Bronzed cowbird | V |
| Ferruginous pygmy owl | R 3 | Mockingbirds | Brown-headed cowbird | V | |
| Mottled owl | R 2 | Northern mockingbird | R 3 | Orchard oriole | R 3 |
| Woodpeckers | Blue mockingbird | R 2 | Hooded oriole | R 3 | |
| Gila | R 1 | Waxwings and silkies | Black-vented oriole | R 4 | |
| Yellow-bellied sapsucker | R 3 | Cedar waxwing | M | Streak-backed oriole | R 1 |
| Ladder-backed sapsucker | R 4 | Grey silky | R 3 | Northern(Bullock's) oriole | R 4 |
| Smokey-brown woodpecker | V | Shrikes | Yellow-winged cacique | R 1 | |
| Lineated woodpecker | R 3 | Loggerhead shrike | R 3 | Finches | |
| Pale-billed woodpecker | R 3 | House finch | R 4 | ||
| Lesser goldfinch | R 3 |
Updated 20 January 2000-------- ------------------------ List compiled by Ben Wassink, :- Home address: 277 Bruyere St. Ottawa, Ontario, KIN 5E5, Canada. -------------------------------Address in Mexico: - Koala Club, La Laguna de Santa Maria del Oro, Nayarit, C.P.63830.