Rock Dove (Pigeon)

Rock Dove (Pigeon)

Adult Description Size:  12.5” Plumage/Description:  Male and female plumage is similar, but highly variable.  While many pigeons have a similar look, there is a high degree of variability in plumage, ranging from gray to white, and anywhere in between. Habitat: ...
Red-tailed Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Adult Juvenille Description Size:  19”  Plumage/Description:  Male and female plumage similar.  Red-tailed Hawks come in a variety of color phases—see the Sibley Guide to Birds to view examples of ‘light’, ‘intermediate’, and ‘dark’ phases.  Diagnostic features...
Northern Flicker

Northern Flicker

Male Female Description Size:  12.5” Plumage/Description:  Flickers are the largest woodpecker species that occurs in Central Arizona.  Male and female plumage is similar, but males have a large, bright red malar stripe—females lack this distinctive marking.  The...
Mourning Dove

Mourning Dove

Adult Description Size:  12” Plumage/Description:  Male and female plumage similar.  Overall tan-brown plumage, with a small amount of green iridescence on the neck.  Black spots on the wings.  Mourning Doves have a long, tapered tail that is outlined with black and...
Steller’s Jay

Steller’s Jay

Adults Description Size:  11.5” Plumage/Description:  Males and females have similar plumage.  The most prominent feature is its distinctive crest black crest with a small amount of white streaking at the base of the crest and over the eye.  The crest, head, and neck...