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CAMP CHIRICAHUA JULY 16–28, 2019

An adult Spotted Owl watched us as we admired it and its family in the Chiricahuas © Brian Gibbons

LEADERS: BRIAN GIBBONS, WILLY HUTCHESON, & ZENA CASTEEL LIST COMPILED BY: BRIAN GIBBONS

VICTOR EMANUEL NATURE TOURS, INC. 2525 WALLINGWOOD DRIVE, SUITE 1003 AUSTIN, 78746 WWW.VENTBIRD.COM

By Brian Gibbons Gathering in the Sonoran under the baking sun didn’t deter the campers from finding a few in the parking lot at the Tucson Airport. Vermilion Flycatcher, Verdin, and a stunning male Broad-billed Hummingbird were some of the first birds tallied on Camp Chiricahua 2019 Session 2. This was more than thirty after Willy and I had similar experiences at Camp Chiricahua as teenagers—our enthusiasm for birds and the natural world still vigorous and growing all these years later, as I hope yours will. The summer monsoon, which brings revitalizing rains to the , mountains, and canyons of southeast , was tardy this , but we would see it come to life later in our trip.

Rufous-winged Sparrow at Arizona Desert Museum © Brian Gibbons

On our first evening we were lucky that a shower passed and cooled down the city from a baking 104 to a tolerable 90 degrees for our outing to Sweetwater Wetlands, a reclaimed wastewater treatment area where birds abound. We found twittering Tropical Kingbirds and a few Abert’s Towhees in the bushes surrounding the ponds. Mexican Duck, Common Gallinule, and American Coot were some of the birds that we could find on the duckweed-choked ponds. The next morning our exploration of the began in earnest at the excellent Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. The grounds teem with both captive and free flying birds. The hummingbird house and the aviary

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours 2 Camp Chiricahua, 2019 were hits with us, go figure. Some lucky campers caught up with a handsome male Varied Bunting and a Gilded Flicker, while everybody got the Black-tailed Gnatcatchers, Cactus Wrens, Black-throated Sparrows, and Rufous-winged Sparrows, classic Sonoran residents. After wandering the grounds on a cloudy morning, we made our way across town to ascend the Santa Catalina Mountains for cooler climes and many new birds.

Red-faced Warblers were one of our prizes from the Catalinas © Brian Gibbons

Over the next couple of days we enjoyed Red-faced Warblers, Painted Redstart, Greater , Olive Warbler, Red Crossbills, and Cordilleran Flycatchers. Kojo’s spotting of the Common Black was excellent; even better was the fact that there were two and they must have been nesting nearby, as one carried a morsel off. Kojo did it again a few hours later with our first Zone-tailed soaring over the ridge from Palisades Visitor Center for the Coronado National Forest. The hummingbird feeder at Palisades provided wonderful photographic opportunities as Broad-tailed Hummingbirds swarmed the feeders with the occasional big boy coming in as Rivoli’s Hummingbird and our first of the newly renamed Blue-throated Mountain-gem stopped briefly. A small nest tucked into the rocky wall along Incinerator Ridge had us puzzled until the parents delivered a bug to the young that were tucked into the cozy nest—Cordilleran Flycatcher! In the evening and through the night we heard a few nocturnals. Whiskered Screech-Owl,

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours 3 Camp Chiricahua, 2019 , Common Poorwill, and Mexican Whip-poor-will were all heard from the forest. The type 6 Red Crossbills were a fun sighting for everyone, and we had good scope views near the lake one morning. Too quickly our time was over in the Catalinas, and we headed down into a boiling Tucson for a quick resupply at my house and a little birding before moving on to Willcox for some shorebirding at Lake Cochise. We found a good variety of shorebirds before the heat and the stink drove us away. That afternoon, we made it to our home base, Cave Creek Ranch, for the next four nights in the Chiricahuas. In short order most campers found a handsome male Montezuma Quail, always one of the most-wanted birds by campers in Southeast Arizona. It took a couple more days before we would have a Broad-tailed Hummingbird © Brian Gibbons cooperative male roadside for good looks for everyone. The feeder array at the ranch hosted many canyon birds and even attracted White-nosed Coatis, White- tailed Deer, and quite a few skunks. Arizona and Acorn woodpeckers, Mexican Jays, White-breasted Nuthatches, and a variety of hummers were all common at the feeders. The biggest surprise was a well-dressed American Goldfinch, out-of-place but well documented. Another good find was the very rare Black Swift that cruised the red rock canyon rims with hundreds of White-throated Swifts. Our explorations of South Fork for Elegant Trogon so far had led to zero sightings of the most iconic of southeast Arizona. The fire-ravaged range still had a few pockets of forest allowing some great montane birds to hold on despite the fire that destroyed more than 200,000 acres in 2011. We found Mexican Chickadees and Bridled Titmice in the and Douglas Firs that remained. I think most would agree that spending time with the family of Spotted Owls in Spotted Owl fledgling © Brian Gibbons Pinery Canyon was a camp

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours 4 Camp Chiricahua, 2019 highlight—watching the adults preen in their stupor and the young bob their heads round and round trying to figure out what we were doing below their roost tree.

Male Montezuma Quail on the roadside in the Chiricahuas © Brian Gibbons

The night drives were very productive at times and eventually netted us Whiskered Screech-Owl and Mexican Whip-poor-will observations. On the roads we found , vinegaroons, , a beautiful Black-tailed Rattlesnake, and the venomous but docile Sonoran Coral . Certainly, a trip highlight would be when some unknown gentleman thrust a Long-nosed Snake through the window to Zena when we asked what he had, entrusting us to let it go off the road; we obliged after hundreds of photos were taken. Little did we know that another adventure involving a drive-thru window handoff would take place: this time, the fittingly named Glorious Scarab , a lime-green and gold-encrusted gem of a critter. Our morning exploring the down towards Rodeo, was cloudy again, giving us a little respite in what could be a very hot place. We found most of our targets including the small Bendire’s Thrasher, aka New Mexico Crap Thrasher, Cassin’s Sparrow, and Botteri’s Sparrow. Our time spent in a seemingly abandoned playground yielded a wonderful encounter with a Texas Horned that posed for our group photo. All the while the empty swing clanged around, keeping us all on edge.

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours 5 Camp Chiricahua, 2019 Camp Chiricahua admires a Texas Horned Lizard © Brian Gibbons

Equally sketchy was the abandoned house, front porch full of defunct cigarette machines, that hosted a family of Barn Owls right in Rodeo. The Chiricahua Desert Museum has an amazing gift shop and an even more amazing collection of North American and . Our final afternoon outing still had us seeking trogons in Cave Creek Canyon. This time our luck would change; we found a very mobile family group. Full-sized juveniles moved and called with their parents as they worked up a side canyon and disappeared; everyone was elated since that is often one of the toughest birds to get this time of year. Some would go back the next morning and find them again before we had to leave the Chiricahuas behind for the Huachucas, our next sky island range. While traversing the grasslands on the southeast side of the Chiricahuas, we found a couple of Pronghorn racing around, their long-extinct predator the North American Cheetah nowhere in sight. Burrowing Owls were also sighted in the dry grasses as a juvenile Swainson’s Hawk sat on a fence post nearby, trying to figure out its new world out of the nest.

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours 6 Camp Chiricahua, 2019 En route to the Huachucas we stopped for a little birding at the San Pedro House. Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Yellow-breasted Chat, and a handsome Ornate Box Turtle were some of our trophies from the San Pedro River. Our arrival in Sierra Vista was cloaked in rain; it seemed that the monsoon was getting going and much needed. Our first outing, after dinner, was into Carr Canyon in the dark. We ended up playing some tape for Elf Owl in a dry streambed with sycamores— perfect . Eventually one started singing back to us, and I was sure we would see it tonight, the smallest owl in the world. PSSSHEW! Just as I was about to turn on my light, a deer snorted, seemingly right next to us. Everyone was startled, including the Elf Owl, which didn’t call for ten minutes after that incident. But eventually it called, and we all had amazing looks when it sat on a Elf Owl, smallest owl in the world © Brian Gibbons bare twig for several minutes. We were all thrilled! On the road that night were a few Mexican Spadefoots and Couch’s Spadefoots, relishing in the newly humidified air and . These live 9–10 months of the year underground in a torpor, encased in a mucous-lined burrow, just waiting on the rain for a brief orgy and then back underground. Several canyons ascend the east flank of the Huachucas, and we wanted to explore a few of them with our time here. First up was Hunter Canyon, a small woodland where the canyon narrows host Rufous-capped Warblers, and we found a couple of different groups after we flushed an adult Northern Goshawk from the canyon. Next up was Carr Canyon with its narrow, bumpy, and windy road that affords excellent views of the San Pedro Valley to the east of the mountains. A few Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jays screeched from the scrubby along the road while we were navigating ever-tighter hairpin curves. Reef Townsite campground is full of Buff-breasted Flycatchers, one of the best places in the U.S. to find this cute, easy-to-identify Empid. Among many other birds in the campground were Eastern Bluebirds of the fulva ssp,; they, like the Buff-breasts, were roaming the campground in family groups. We took the afternoon off in preparation for another night drive after dinner. While we didn’t find any snakes, we found a few spadefoots, tarantulas, and vinegaroons.

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours 7 Camp Chiricahua, 2019 Our second morning was filled with Ash and Miller Canyons. Ash was very slow, but we managed to add a few birds in Miller Canyon. First up was the little tooting terror of the forest, the “Mountain” Northern Pygmy-Owl, slightly bigger than an Elf Owl. Pygmy-Owls take birds and prey larger than themselves, while the Elf sticks with scorpions and bugs that it can bag easily. At the Beatty’s hummingbird feeders, seven of hummingbirds delighted us as they zipped around; we added our first Violet-crowned Hummingbird here. Some of us hiked up canyon and were rewarded with fine looks at a Whiskered Screech-Owl on its day roost. Probably the trip highlight for me was the little -like buzz produced by a small Banded Rock Rattlesnake as it slithered off the trail to take shelter from the swarm of A somnolent Whiskered Screech-Owl © Brian Gibbons humans approaching it. After enjoying the birds of Miller Canyon, we headed back to Carr for a quick picnic before heading on to Patagonia, where we had our two final nights before heading to Tucson. On our first afternoon we visited the Tucson Audubon Society Paton Center for Hummingbirds. Swarms of Broad-billeds slurped at every feeder, and several beautiful Violet-crowned Hummingbirds visited too. Our first night drive out of Patagonia was a targeted search for Western Screech-Owl. After a couple of quick stops for a and a , we were at a little stream crossing that looked promising. Soon, a screech-owl was calling back, and then another; eventually we saw one bird quite well before it disappeared into an enormous sycamore tree. Banded Rock Rattlesnake in Miller Canyon © Brian Gibbons

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours 8 Camp Chiricahua, 2019 One of our last Arizona specialty birds was the Rose- throated , so we headed to the Santa Cruz River near Tubac. The large stands of gallery forest along the river are home to a few pairs of these days. We slogged through mud and eventually found one active nest where everyone but me got to see the female—I was off trying to find the other nests, which I did, but no birds were in attendance. Gray and Zone-tailed hawks, flycatchers, chats, and Summer Tanagers were all seen during our slog, our shoes growing heavier and our heels higher with every step. Winding our Violet-crowned Hummingbird at Paton's © Brian Gibbons way back to Patagonia, we found a few nice Varied Buntings along River Road; the males are an exquisite combination of plum, red, blue, and purple. The Gray Hawks were quite conspicuous too along the river (that is, the river without water—this is Arizona). In the afternoon we visited Patagonia Lake State Park. We added a few birds there but not the hoped for Black-capped Gnatcatcher. Our second night drive out of Patagonia netted us good looks at a Black-tailed Rattlesnake on the road and a huge moth called the Big Poplar Sphinx. Greater in a classic Arizona scene © Brian Gibbons

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours 9 Camp Chiricahua, 2019 An early departure ensured us of good morning birding in Box Canyon on the north flank of the Santa Ritas. This small but spectacular canyon was hosting many good birds this summer. Not long after we arrived, a female Lucifer put in an appearance and in short order flew to her nest, which was perched on a dead agave flower stalk and stuffed with a couple of large babies that were stretching the nest. We watched her for a while and then set our sights downstream where the Five-striped Sparrows lurk. Barely out of the cars, Willy heard a Five-stripe singing, and soon we had it in the scope as it sang from an ocotillo. With the canyon quickly warming under the morning sun, we made tracks for Madera Canyon, where the oaks would provide a little more cover for birding before a picnic lunch in the canyon. The Trogons obliged; a pair had set up a late nest right behind the Santa Rita Lodge. Both the male and the female visited the nest for our group, a great experience for Camp Chiricahua. The hummingbirds at Santa Rita Lodge are always entertaining and always a challenge to photograph. After a final picnic among the oaks of Madera Canyon, we made our way to Tucson and the conclusion of Camp Chiricahua.

Campers watching a Lucifer Hummingbird nest down in Box Canyon © Brian Gibbons

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours 10 Camp Chiricahua, 2019

Brian Gibbons for Willy Hutcheson and Zena Casteel: thanks for experiencing Arizona with us through Camp Chiricahua.

Scorpion illuminated by Black Light © Brian Gibbons

ITINERARY

16 July 2019 - Arrival to Tucson, evening trip to Sweetwater Wetlands, dinner Panera 17 July - Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, drive across town, lunch Chipotle, to Rose Canyon Lake Campground in the Coronado National Forest. 18 July - Rose Canyon Lake, Incinerator Ridge, Palisades Visitor Center of Coronado National Forest, Mt Bigelow Road, Summerhaven 19 July - Rose Canyon Lake Campground, Catalina Highway, Molino Basin, Gibbons' house, Lake Cochise in Willcox, Cave Creek Ranch, Night Drive to Rodeo, NM 20 July - South Fork Cave Creek Canyon, Southwest Research Station, afternoon to Turkey Creek and Pinery Canyon, night drive to Sunny Flat area 21 July - Portal to Paradise, East Turkey Creek, Portal and Dave Jasper's yard, night drive

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours 11 Camp Chiricahua, 2019 22 July - Rodeo, NM, Willow Tank, Chiricahua Desert Museum, evening Sunny Flat, Dave Jasper's yard, night drive 23 July - Sunny Flat area, lunch at Cave Creek Ranch, San Pedro House, Sierra Vista, Dinner Pizzeria Mimosa, night drive up Carr Canyon 24 July - Hunter Canyon, Carr Canyon picnic, Harris's Hawk, afternoon off, Dinner Pizzeria Mimosa, night drive up Miller Canyon 25 July - Ash Canyon, Miller Canyon, Picnic in lower Carr Canyon, Sonoita grasslands, Paton Center for Hummingbirds, Dinner Stage Stop Inn, night drive on Harshaw Creek 26 July - Tubac area of the Santa Cruz River for Becard, Rio Rico, Patagonia Lake State Park, night drive around Patagonia 27 July - Box Canyon in the Santa Ritas, Madera Canyon birding and picnic lunch, drive to Tucson

BIRDS

Waterfowl Anatidae Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis Mallard Anas platyrhynchos Mexican Duck Anas diazi Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis New World Quail Odontophoridae Gambel's Quail Callipepla gambelii Montezuma Quail Cyrtonyx montezumae Pheasants, Grouse and Allies Phasianidae Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo Grebes Podicipedidae Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Pigeons and Doves Columbidae Rock Pigeon (I) Columba livia Band-tailed Pigeon Patagioenas fasciata Eurasian Collared-Dove (I) Streptopelia decaocto Inca Dove Columbina inca Common Ground-Dove Columbina passerina White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura Cuckoos Cuculidae Geococcyx californianus Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Nightjars Caprimulgidae Lesser Nighthawk Chordeiles acutipennis Common Poorwill Phalaenoptilus nuttallii

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours 12 Camp Chiricahua, 2019 Mexican Whip-poor-will Antrostomus arizonae Swifts Apodidae White-throated Swift Aeronautes saxatalis Black Swift Cyseloides niger Hummingbirds Trochilidae Rivoli's Hummingbird Eugenes fulgens Blue-throated Hummingbird Lampornis clemenciae Lucifer Hummingbird Calothorax lucifer Black-chinned Hummingbird Archilochus alexandri Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna Costa's Hummingbird Calypte costae Broad-tailed Hummingbird Selasphorus platycercus Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus Broad-billed Hummingbird Cynanthus latirostris Violet-crowned Hummingbird Amazilia violiceps Rails, Gallinules and Coots Rallidae Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata American Coot Fulica americana Stilts and Avocets Recurvirostridae Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus American Avocet Recurvirostra americana Plovers and Lapwings Charadriidae Killdeer Charadrius vociferus Sandpipers and Allies Scolopacidae Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus Marbled Godwit Limosa fedoa Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes Cormorants Phalacrocoracidae Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus Herons, Egrets and Bitterns Ardeidae Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias Snowy Egret Egretta thula Green Heron Butorides virescens Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours 13 Camp Chiricahua, 2019 Ibises and Spoonbills Threskiornithidae White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi New World Vultures Cathartidae Black Vulture Coragyps atratus Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura Hawks, Eagles and Kites Accipitridae Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos Cooper's Hawk Accipiter cooperii Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis Common Black Hawk Buteogallus anthracinus Harris's Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus Gray Hawk Buteo plagiatus Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis Barn-Owls Tytonidae Barn Owl Tyto alba Owls Strigidae Whiskered Screech-Owl Megascops trichopsis Western Screech-Owl Megascops kennicottii Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus Northern Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium gnoma (Mountain Pygmy-Owl) (Glaucidium gnoma gnoma) Elf Owl Micrathene whitneyi Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis Trogons Trogonidae Elegant Trogon Trogon elegans Woodpeckers Picidae Acorn Woodpecker Melanerpes formicivorus Gila Woodpecker Melanerpes uropygialis Ladder-backed Woodpecker Dryobates scalaris Hairy Woodpecker Dryobates villosus Arizona Woodpecker Dryobates arizonae Northern (Red-shafted) Flicker Colaptes auratus cafer Gilded Flicker Colaptes chrysoides Falcons and Caracaras Falconidae American Kestrel Falco sparverius Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus Tyrant Flycatchers Tyrannidae Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet Camptostoma imberbe Greater Pewee Contopus pertinax Western Wood-Pewee Contopus sordidulus

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours 14 Camp Chiricahua, 2019 Cordilleran Flycatcher Empidonax occidentalis Buff-breasted Flycatcher Empidonax fulvifrons Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans Say's Phoebe Sayornis saya Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer Ash-throated Flycatcher Myiarchus cinerascens Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus tyrannulus Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes luteiventris Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus Cassin's Kingbird Tyrannus vociferans Thick-billed Kingbird Tyrannus crassirostris Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis & Allies Tityridae Rose-throated Becard Pachyramphus aglaiae Laniidae Loggerhead Lanius ludovicianus Vireos Vireonidae Bell's Vireo Vireo bellii Hutton's Vireo Vireo huttoni Plumbeous Vireo Vireo plumbeus Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus Crows, Jays and Steller's stelleri Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay woodhouseii Mexican Jay Aphelocoma wollweberi Chihuahuan Raven cryptoleucus Common Raven Corvus corax Swallows Hirundinidae Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis Purple Martin Progne subis Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor Violet-green Swallow Tachycineta thalassina Bank Swallow Riparia riparia Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota Tits, Chickadees, & Titmice Paridae Mountain Chickadee Poecile gambeli Mexican Chickadee Poecile sclateri Bridled Titmouse Baeolophus wollweberi Juniper Titmouse Baeolophus ridgwayi Penduline-Tits Remizidae Verdin Auriparus flaviceps

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours 15 Camp Chiricahua, 2019 Long-tailed Tits Aegithalidae Bushtit Psaltriparus minimus Nuthatches Sittidae Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis Pygmy Nuthatch Sitta pygmaea Creepers Certhiidae Brown Creeper Certhia americana Wrens Troglodytidae Rock Wren Salpinctes obsoletus Canyon Wren Catherpes mexicanus House Wren Troglodytes aedon Bewick's Wren Thryomanes bewickii Cactus Wren Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus Gnatcatchers Polioptilidae Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea Black-tailed Gnatcatcher Polioptila melanura Black-capped Gnatcatcher Polioptila nigriceps Thrushes and Allies Turdidae Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis Western Bluebird Sialia mexicana Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus American Robin Turdus migratorius Mockingbirds and Thrashers Mimidae Curve-billed Thrasher Toxostoma curvirostre Bendire's Thrasher Toxostoma bendirei Crissal Thrasher Toxostoma crissale Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos Starlings Sturnidae European Starling (I) Sturnus vulgaris Silky-flycatchers Ptiliogonatidae Phainopepla Phainopepla nitens Olive Warbler Peucedramidae Olive Warbler Peucedramus taeniatus Finches, Euphonias, and Allies Fringillidae House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra Siskin Spinus pinus Lesser Goldfinch Spinus psaltria American Goldfinch Spinus tristis New World Sparrows Passerellidae Rufous-winged Sparrow Peucaea carpalis Botteri's Sparrow Peucaea botterii

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours 16 Camp Chiricahua, 2019 Cassin's Sparrow Peucaea cassinii Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina Black-chinned Sparrow Spizella atrogularis Black-throated Sparrow Amphispiza bilineata Five-striped Sparrow Amphispiza quinquestriata Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus Yellow-eyed Junco Junco phaeonotus Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia Canyon Towhee Melozone fusca Abert's Towhee Melozone aberti Rufous-crowned Sparrow Aimophila ruficeps Spotted Towhee Pipilo maculatus Yellow-breasted Chat Icteriidae Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens Troupials and Allies Icteridae Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna Hooded Oriole Icterus cucullatus Bullock's Oriole Icterus bullockii Scott's Oriole Icterus parisorum Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus New World Warblers Parulidae Lucy's Warbler Oreothlypis luciae Nashville Warbler Oreothlypis ruficapilla Virginia's Warbler Oreothlypis virginiae Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia (Audubon's) Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata auduboni Grace's Warbler Setophaga graciae Black-throated Gray Warbler Setophaga nigrescens Rufous-capped Warbler Basileuterus rufifrons Red-faced Warbler Cardellina rubrifrons Painted Redstart Myioborus pictus Cardinals and Allies Cardinalidae Hepatic Tanager Piranga flava Summer Tanager Piranga rubra Western Tanager Piranga ludoviciana Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours 17 Camp Chiricahua, 2019 Pyrrhuloxia Cardinalis sinuatus Black-headed Grosbeak Pheucticus melanocephalus Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea Lazuli Bunting Passerina amoena Passerina sp Varied Bunting Passerina versicolor Old World Sparrows Passeridae House Sparrow (I) Passer domesticus

MAMMALS , Prairie Dogs & Marmots Sciuridae Harris's Antelope- Ammospermophilus harrisii Abert's Squirrel Sciurus aberti Arizona Gray Squirrel Sciurus arizonensis Mexican Fox Squirrel Sciurus nayaritensis Cliff Chipmunk Tamias dorsalis Round-tailed Ground-Squirrel Spermophilus tereticaudus Rock Squirrel Spermophilus variegatus Kangaroo Rat Heteromyidae Merriam's Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys merriami Ord's Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys ordii Banner-tailed Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys spectabilis Pocket Gophers Geomyidae Botta's Pocket Gopher Thomomys bottae Rats & Mice Muridae Cotton Rat sp Sigmodon sp Rabbits & Hares Leporidae Desert Cottontail Sylvilagus audubonii Black-tailed Jackrabbit Lepus californicus Free-tailed Molossidae Brazilian Free-tailed Tadarida brasiliensis Cats Felidae Mountain Lion (Puma) Puma concolor Dogs Canidae Coyote Canis latrans Gray Fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus Weasels Mustelidae Common Hog-nosed Skunk Conepatus leuconotus Hooded Skunk Mephitis marcroura Striped Skunk Mephitis mephitis Raccoons Procyonidae White-nosed Coati Nasua narica

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours 18 Camp Chiricahua, 2019 Northern Raccoon Procyon lotor Peccaries Tayassuidae Collared Peccary Pecari tajacu Deer Cervidae White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Pronghorn Antilocapridae Pronghorn Antilocapra americana

OTHER FAUNA Toads & Anurans Couch's Spadefoot Scaphiopus couchii Mexican Spadefoot Spea multiplicata Woodhouse's Toad Bufo woodhousei Red-spotted Toad Bufo punctatus Bullfrog (I) Rana catesbeiana Turtles Testudines Ornate Box Turtle Terrapene ornata Lizards Lacertilia Sonoran Spiny-tailed Iguana (I) Ctenosaura macrolopha Zebra-tailed Lizard Callisaurus draconoides Desert Sceloporus magister Clark's Spiny Lizard Sceloporus clarkii Yarrow’s Spiny Lizard Sceloporus yarrovii Southwestern Fence Lizard Sceloporus cowlesi Ornate Tree Lizard Urosaurus ornatus Texas Horned Lizard Phrynosoma cornutum Tiger Whiptail Aspidoscelis tigris Arizona Striped Whiptail Aspidoscelis arizonae Madrean Alligator Lizard Gerrhonotus kingii Mediterranean House Gecko (I) Hemidactylus turcicus Snakes Serpentes Common Kingsnake Lampropeltis getulus Long-nosed Snake Rhinocheilus lecontei Sonoran Coral Snake Micruroides euryxanthus Black-tailed Rattlesnake Crotalus molossus Rock Rattlesnake Crotalus lepidus New Mexico Threadsnake Leptotyphlops dissectus

Victor Emanuel Nature Tours 19 Camp Chiricahua, 2019