BIRDS OF RED ROCK CANYON NATIONAL CONSERVATION AREA

WATERFOWL RAIL, GALLINULES & COOTS KINGFISHERS Snow Goose Virginia Rail Belted Kingfisher Canada Goose Sora Mallard Common Gallinule WOODPECKERS Cinnamon Teal American Coot Lewis’s Woodpecker Canvasback Red-naped Sapsucker Ring-necked Duck PLOVERS & SANDPIPERS Red-breasted Sapsucker Bufflehead Killdeer Ladder-backed Woodpecker Hooded Merganser Spotted Sandpiper Hairy Woodpecker Common Merganser Wilson’s Snipe Northern Flicker Ruddy Duck PIGEONS & DOVES TYRANT FLYCATCHERS GALLINACEOUS BIRDS Rock Pigeon Olive-sided Flycatcher Gambel’s Quail Band-tailed Pigeon Western Wood-Pewee Chukar Eurasian Collared-Dove Willow Flycatcher White-winged Dove Hammond’s Flycatcher GREBES Mourning Dove Gray Flycatcher Pied-billed Grebe Inca Dove Dusky Flycatcher Eared Grebe Cordilleran Flycatcher CUCKOOS Black Phoebe HERONS Greater Roadrunner Say’s Phoebe Great Blue Heron Vermillion Flycatcher Great Egret OWLS Ash-throated Flycatcher Green Heron Barn Owl Brown-crested Flycatcher Flammulated Owl Cassin’s Kingbird NEW WORLD VULTURES Great Horned Owl Western Kingbird Turkey Vulture Long-eared Owl SHRIKES OSPREY, HAWKS & EAGLES NIGHTJARS Loggerhead Shrike Osprey Lesser Nighthawk Northern Harrier Common Poorwill VIREOS Sharp-shinned Hawk Bell’s Vireo Cooper’s Hawk SWIFTS Gray Vireo Northern Goshawk Vaux’s Swift Plumbeous Vireo Red-shouldered Hawk White-throated Swift Cassin’s Vireo Swainson’s Hawk Warbling Vireo Red-tailed Hawk HUMMINGBIRDS Ferruginous Hawk Black-chinned Hummingbird CROWS & JAYS Golden Eagle Anna’s Hummingbird Western Scrub-Jay Costa’s Hummingbird Pinyon Jay FALCONS Calliope Hummingbird American Crow American Kestrel Broad-tailed Hummingbird Common Raven Merlin Rufous Hummingbird Peregrine Falcon LARKS Prairie Falcon Horned Lark SWALLOWS STARLINGS GROSBEAKS & BUNTINGS Tree Swallow European Starling Black-headed Grosbeak Violet-green Swallow Blue Grosbeak N. Rough-winged Swallow PIPITS Lazuli Bunting Cliff Swallow American Pipit Indigo Bunting Barn Swallow WAXWINGS Cedar Waxwing BLACKBIRDS, GRACKLES & ORIOLES CHICKADEES AND TITMICE Red-winged Blackbird Mountain Chickadee SILKY-FLYCATCHERS Western Meadowlark Juniper Titmouse Phainopepla Yellow-headed Blackbird Brewer’s Blackbird VERDINS WOOD WARBLERS Great-tailed Grackle Verdin Northern Waterthrush Brown-headed Cowbird Orange-crowned Warbler Hooded Oriole BUSHTITS Lucy’s Warbler Bullock’s Oriole Bushtit Nashville Warbler Scott’s Oriole Virginia’s Warbler NUTHATCHES MacGillivray’s Warbler FINCHES Pygmy Nuthatch Common Yellowthroat Cassin’s Finch Red-breasted Nuthatch Yellow Warbler House Finch White-breasted Nuthatch Yellow-rumped Warbler Red Crossbill Grace’s Warbler Pine Siskin WRENS Black-throated Gray Warbler Lesser Goldfinch Cactus Wren Townsend’s Warbler Lawrence’s Goldfinch Rock Wren Hermit Warbler American Goldfinch Canyon Wren Wilson’s Warbler Evening Grosbeak Bewick’s Wren Yellow-breasted Chat House Wren OLD WORLD SPARROWS Pacific Wren SPARROWS, TOWHEES & JUNCOS House Sparrow Marsh Wren Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee DATE: GNATCATCHERS Rufous-crowned Sparrow Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Abert’s Towhee OBSERVER: Black-tailed Gnatcatcher Chipping Sparrow Brewer’s Sparrow NOTES: KINGLETS Black-chinned Sparrow Golden-crowned Kinglet Vesper Sparrow Ruby-crowned Kinglet Lark Sparrow Black-throated Sparrow

THRUSHES Sage Sparrow

Western Bluebird Savannah Sparrow This list is a work in progress, and Mountain Bluebird Fox Sparrow serves only to be a guide. Some birds Townsend’s Solitaire Song Sparrow are breeders here, some visible Swainson’s Thrush Lincoln’s Sparrow during spring or fall migration, others Hermit Thrush White-crowned Sparrow during winter. Some are common, American Robin Golden-crowned Sparrow others rare. There will be birds not Varied Thrush Dark-eyed Junco on this list that will find their way to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. Please report MOCKINGBIRDS & THRASHERS TANAGERS sightings to Red Rock Canyon NCA, Northern Mockingbird Summer Tanager HCR 33 Box 5500, Las Vegas, NV Sage Thrasher Western Tanager 89161 or to [email protected]. Crissal Thrasher May 2012 – J. R. Tinsman Le Conte’s Thrasher