Welcome to our Online Bird Guide!
This guide is intended for central and northern Arizona backyard birders.
You may notice that not all species that occur in these areas are listed in this guide, but simply the ones you would find in your backyard. This guide is here to help assist casual, novice or beginner backyard birders.
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Cordilleran Flycatcher
Plumage/Description: A small non-descript flycatcher easily confused with other flycatchers in the Empidonax genus.
Crissal Thrasher
Plumage/Description: In spite of being ‘common’ this species is rarely seen by backyard birders.
Dark-eyed Junco
Plumage/Description: The current designation of ‘Dark-eyed Junco’ is a result of lumping together several junco ‘races’.
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Plumage/Description: A large, stocky dove. An overall creamy pale gray color with a prominent black crescent on the back of the neck.
Gambel’s Quail
Plumage/Description: Males are very distinctive, with their large plume, Rufous crown, black face and throat.
Grace’s Warbler
Plumage/Description: Males have a bright yellow throat and breast, as well as yellow lores.
Great Horned Owl
Plumage/Description: Male and female plumage similar but females are larger than males.
Great-tailed Grackle
Plumage/Description: Males have a very long, keel-shaped tail.
Greater Roadrunner
Plumage/Description: Male and female plumage similar. Long billed, long tailed, and long legged. Cannot be easily confused with any other species found in the Central Highlands of Arizona.