List of birds of the Madrean Sky Islands explained

This is a list of birds that have been observed in the Madrean Sky Islands, which are enclaves of Madrean pine-oak woodlands, found at higher elevations in a complex of small mountain ranges in southern and southeastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and northwestern Mexico. The Sky Islands are surrounded at lower elevations by the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts.^[1]

• Varied bunting
• Bushtit
• Mexican chickadee
• Cordilleran flycatcher
• American dusky flycatcher
• American grey flycatcher
• Hammond's flycatcher
• Nutting's flycatcher
• Sulphur-bellied flycatcher
• Black-tailed gnatcatcher
• Lawrence's goldfinch
• Black-headed grosbeak
• Anna's hummingbird
• Berylline hummingbird
• Black-chinned hummingbird
• Blue-throated hummingbird
• Broad-billed hummingbird
• Broad-tailed hummingbird
• Lucifer hummingbird
• Magnificent hummingbird
• Violet-crowned hummingbird
• White-eared hummingbird
• Mexican jay
• Cassin's kingbird
• Thick-billed kingbird
• Chestnut-collared longspur
• Thick-billed longspur
• Buff-collared nightjar
• Pygmy nuthatch
• Elf owl
• Flammulated owl
• Spotted owl
• Whiskered screech-owl
• Thick-billed parrot
• Pyrrhuloxia
• Gambel's quail
• Montezuma quail
• Eared quetzal
• Chihuahuan raven
• Painted redstart
• Baird's sparrow
• Five-striped sparrow
• Plain-capped starthroat
• Bendire's thrasher
• Bridled titmouse
• Juniper titmouse
• Elegant trogon
• Hutton's vireo
• Plumbeous vireo
• Grace's warbler
• Olive warbler
• Red-faced warbler
• Acorn woodpecker
• Arizona woodpecker
• Gila woodpecker
• Brown-throated wren

Notes and References

1. Flesch . Aaron D. . Hahn . Lisa A. . 2005 . Distribution of birds and plants at the western and southern edges of the Madrean Sky Islands in Sonora, Mexico . In: Gottfried, Gerald J.; Gebow, Brooke S.; Eskew, Lane G.; Edminster, Carleton B., Comps. Connecting Mountain Islands and Desert Seas: Biodiversity and Management of the Madrean Archipelago II. Proc. RMRS-P-36. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station: 80-87 . en . 036.