Bird Specialties

Bird collage (clockwise starting in left hand corner: white winged dove, Gray Hawk, Mexican Jay, Ruby Throated Hummimgbird, Scaled Quail, and Turkey Vulture)

 

Each of these species is evocative of Big Bend National Park. Each is a Southwestern U.S. species that spends much, if not all of the year in the park (doesn’t just migrate through). With some effort, each is observable within the park and is part of a classic group of Big Bend birds.

Gray Hawk Zone-tailed Hawk Common Black Hawk Scaled Quail White-winged Dove Inca Dove Greater Roadrunner Elf Owl Lesser Nighthawk Lucifer Hummingbird Blue-throated Hummingbird Magnificent Hummingbird Golden-fronted Woodpecker Ladder-backed Woodpecker Ash-throated Flycatcher Black Phoebe Vermillion Flycatcher Mexican Jay

Verdin Cactus Wren Black-tailed Gnatcatcher Black-capped Vireo Curve-billed Thrasher Crissal Thrasher Phainopepla Gray Vireo Colima Warbler Pyrrhuloxia Varied Bunting Canyon Towhee Black-throated Sparrow Cassin’s Sparrow Black-chinned Sparrow Rufous-crowned Sparrow Scott’s Oriole Hepatic Tanager