Bird List

Wild Turkey

•Some 8,000 feet above sea level, a Peregrine Falcon cruises from its perch atop Zion's high plateau. A flock of Band-tailed Pigeons note its approach and bolt on noisy wings into a stand of ponderosa pines. The falcon careens over the edge of its looming sandstone world and drops roughly 2,000 feet along a sheer rock wall; White-throated Swifts scatter to give it space. At the base of the cliffs the raptor's flight becomes more horizontal. From the pygmy forest of pinyon and juniper, thirty Pinyon Jays squawk their disapproval, and further down, along the Virgin River, a Black-headed Grosbeak eyes the Peregrine from the cover of a big cottonwood. Soon, the falcon's shadow is streaking across searing desert terrain, where a Roadrunner abandons its pursuit of lizards to avoid becoming prey itself.

•Amazingly, a Peregrine Falcon can be within a talon's grasp of each of Zion's major habitats during a flight lasting only a few minutes.

•In Zion National Park, a diversity of environments is compressed into a relatively small space. While the birdwatcher lacks the Peregrine Falcon's luxury of 100 m.p.h. plus flight, he or she can still visit Zion's different habitats within a day.

•Try to experience the varied landscapes of Zion. You will likely be impressed with their stunning beauty, and with the many bird species that occupy them.

•This list contains 290 bird species.

*•LOONS & GREBES*
	Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark's Grebe
*•PELICANS & CORMORANTS*
	American White Pelican Double-crested Cormorant
*•HERONS, IBISES & STORKS*
	American Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night Heron White-faced Ibis Wood Stork
*•VULTURES*
	Turkey Vulture California Condor
*•SWANS, GEESE & DUCKS*
	Tundra Swan Snow Goose Canada Goose Wood Duck Green-winged Mallard Northern Pintail Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Oldsquaw Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck
*•OSPREY, EAGLES, HAWKS & FALCONS*
	Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Common Black-Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Swainson's Hawk Zone-tailed Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Prairie Falcon
*•PHEASANTS, GROUSE, TURKEY & QUAIL*
	Ring-necked Pheasant Blue Grouse Wild Turkey Gambel's Quail
*•RAILS & CRANES*
	Virginia Rail Sora American Coot Sandhill Crane
•SHOREBIRDS
	Black-bellied Plover Snowy Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Mountain Plover Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Willet Wandering Tattler Spotted Sandpiper Long-billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Sanderling Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher Common Snipe Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope
*•GULLS & TERNS*
	Franklin's Gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull California Gull Herring Gull Caspian Tern Forster's Tern Black Tern
*•PIGEONS & DOVES*
	Rock Dove Band-tailed Pigeon White-winged Dove Mourning Dove Inca Dove
*•CUCKOOS & ROADRUNNERS*
	Yellow-billed Cuckoo Greater Roadrunner
*•OWLS*
	Barn Owl Flammulated Owl Western Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Northern Pygmy-Owl Spotted Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl
*•GOATSUCKERS*
	Lesser Nighthawk Common Nighthawk Common Poorwill Whip-poor-will
*•SWIFTS*
	Black Swift Vaux's Swift White-throated Swift
*•HUMMINGBIRDS*
	Broad-billed Hummingbird Blue-throated Hummingbird Magnificent Hummingbird Black-chinned Hummingbird Costa's Hummingbird Anna's Hummingbird Calliope Hummingbird Broad-tailed Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird
*•KINGFISHERS*
	Belted Kingfisher
*•WOODPECKERS*
	Lewis' Woodpecker Acorn Woodpecker Red-naped Sapsucker Williamson's Sapsucker Ladder-backed Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Three-toed Woodpecker Northern Flicker
*•FLYCATCHERS*
	Olive-sided Flycatcher Western Wood-Pewee Willow Flycatcher Hammond's Flycatcher Dusky Flycatcher Gray Flycatcher Cordilleran Flycatcher Black Phoebe Eastern Phoebe Say's Phoebe Vermilion Flycatcher Ash-throated Flycatcher Cassin's Kingbird Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird
*•SHRIKES*
	Northern Shrike Loggerhead Shrike
*•VIREOS*
	Bell's Vireo Gray Vireo Plumbeous Vireo Warbling Vireo
*•JAYS & CROWS*
	Gray Jay Steller's Jay Western Scrub-Jay Pinyon Jay Clark's Nutcracker Black-billed Magpie American Crow Common Raven
*•LARKS*
	Horned Lark
*•SWALLOWS*
	Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow N. Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow
*•CHICKADEES, TITMICE & BUSHTITS*
	Black-capped Chickadee Mountain Chickadee Juniper Titmouse Verdin Bushtit
*•NUTHATCHES & CREEPERS*
	Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Pygmy Nuthatch Brown Creeper
*•WRENS & DIPPERS*
	Rock Wren Canyon Wren Bewick's Wren House Wren Winter Wren Marsh Wren American Dipper
*•KINGLETS & GNATCATCHERS*
	Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
*•THRUSHES*
	Western Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush American Robin Varied Thrush
*•MOCKINGBIRDS & THRASHERS*
	Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Sage Thrasher Brown Thrasher Crissal Thrasher
*•STARLINGS*
	European Starling
*•PIPITS, WAXWINGS & PHAINOPEPLA*
	American Pipit Bohemian Waxwing Cedar Waxwing Phainopepla
*•WARBLERS*
	Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Virginia's Warbler Lucy's Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend's Warbler Hermit Warbler Grace's Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush MacGillivray's Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Painted Redstart Yellow-breasted Chat
*•TANAGERS*
	Summer Tanager Western Tanager
*•TOWHEES, SPARROWS & JUNCOS*
	Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee Abert's Towhee Rufous-crowned Sparrow American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Brewer's Sparrow Black-chinned Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Black-throated Sparrow Sage Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Harris' Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Chestnut-collared Longspur Snow Bunting
*•GROSBEAKS & BUNTINGS*
	Rose-breasted Grosbeak Black-headed Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Indigo Bunting
*•BLACKBIRDS, MEADOWLARKS & ORIOLES*
	Red-winged Blackbird Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Great-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Hooded Oriole Bullock's Oriole Scott's Oriole
*•FINCHES*
	Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Pine Grosbeak Cassin's Finch House Finch Red Crossbill Pine Siskin Lesser Goldfinch American Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak
*•WEAVER FINCHES*
	House Sparrow

•Do you have an interesting bird sighting?

•Natural History Observation Cards are available at visitor centers or entrance stations. Records are lacking for numerous species. Your observations of uncommon or rare species, or of any birds exhibiting unusual behavior, can provide the National Park Service with valuable data. When filling out a card, give specific information on the location of your sighting, identification marks of the bird(s), and comments on their behavior. Thanks for your assistance!

•Rangers keep a list of recent, notable sightings at the Zion Canyon Visitor Center Information Desk. Visitors are welcome and encouraged to reference and add to this list.

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