Post Trip Summary: The Birds

List of bird seen on the trip

We are dedicated birders, so we each carried a pair of binoculars and did our best to find and identify birds while we were riding and while off the bikes. Birding while riding we found to be more difficult than expected and so the variety of species we saw is certainly lower than we would have seen had we been on foot. In particular, we found it hard to locate the smaller species such as sparrows, flycatchers and warblers. We saw four new species that are "life birds". These are species we saw for the first time ever and get recorded on our Life List. It is an incredible treat to see a new life bird and it doesn't happen for us in North America very often anymore.

Birds marked post-GDR were seen between Antelope Wells and Tucson after completing the GDR. Some of these species may possibly be observed while on the GDR while others are out of range and thus could not have been observed on-route.

214 species seen

1. Common Loon
2. Eared Grebe
3. Red-necked Grebe
4. Pied-billed Grebe
5. Western Grebe
6. Clark's Grebe
7. American White Pelican
8. Double-crested Cormorant
9. Great Blue Heron
10. White-faced Ibis
11. Trumpeter Swan
12. Canada Goose
13. Mallard
14. Gadwall
15. American Wigeon
16. Northern Pintail
17. Northern Shoveler
18. Blue-winged Teal
19. Green-winged Teal
20. Cinnamon Teal
21. Ruddy Duck
22. Wood Duck
23. Canvasback
24. Ring-necked Duck
25. Lesser Scaup
26. Common Goldeneye
27. Bufflehead
28. Common Merganser
29. Sandhill Crane
30. Common Moorhen
31. American Coot
32. Killdeer
33. Solitary Sandpiper
34. Spotted Sandpiper
35. Wilson's Snipe
36. Ring-billed Gull
37. California Gull
38. Forster's Tern
39. Turkey Vulture
40. Golden Eagle
41. Bald Eagle
42. Northern Harrier
43. Sharp-shinned Hawk
44. Cooper's Hawk
45. Northern Goshawk
46. Zone-tailed Hawk (post-GDR)
47. Red-tailed Hawk
48. Swainson's Hawk
49. Ferruginous Hawk
50. Osprey
51. American Kestrel
52. Peregrine Falcon
53. Prairie Falcon
54. Ruffed Grouse
55. Dusky Grouse (new Life Bird)
56. Greater Sage Grouse (new Life Bird)
57. Gunnison Sage Grouse (new Life Bird)
58. Scaled Quail
59. Gambel's Quail
60. Gray Partridge
61. Ring-necked Pheasant
62. Wild Turkey
63. Band-tailed Pigeon
64. Rock Pigeon
65. White-winged Dove
66. Mourning Dove
67. Eurasian Collared Dove
68. Inca Dove
69. Greater Roadrunner
70. Barn Owl
71. Western Screech-Owl
72. Great Horned Owl
73. Great Gray Owl
74. Northern Saw-whet Owl
75. Common Poorwill
76. Common Nighthawk
77. Elegant Trogon (post-GDR)
78. Black-chinned Hummingbird
79. Anna's Hummingbird (post-GDR)
80. Calliope Hummingbird
81. Broad-tailed Hummingbird
82. Rufous Hummingbird
83. Belted Kingfisher
84. Gila Woodpecker (post-GDR)
85. Acorn Woodpecker (post-GDR)
86. Ladder-backed Woodpecker
87. Arizona Woodpecker (post-GDR)
88. Williamson's Sapsucker
89. Red-naped Sapsucker
90. Northern Flicker
91. Downy Woodpecker
92. Hairy Woodpecker
93. Three-toed Woodpecker
94. Pileated Woodpecker
95. Ash-throated Flycatcher (post-GDR)
96. Eastern Kingbird
97. Western Kingbird
98. Cassin's Kingbird
99. Olive-sided Flycatcher
100. Western Wood-Pewee
101. Say's Phoebe
102. Black Phoebe
103. Gray Flycatcher
104. Cordilleran Flycatcher
105. Horned Lark
106. Tree Swallow
107. Violet-green Swallow
108. Bank Swallow
109. Cliff Swallow
110. Barn Swallow
111. Pinyon Jay
112. Blue Jay
113. Stellar's Jay
114. Western Scrub Jay
115. Mexican Jay
116. Gray Jay
117. Clark's Nutcracker
118. Black-billed Magpie
119. American Crow
120. Chihuahuan Raven
121. Common Raven
122. Juniper Titmouse
123. Bridled Titmouse
124. Black-capped Chickadee
125. Mexican Chickadee (post-GDR) (new Life Bird)
126. Mountain Chickadee
127. Chestnut-backed Chickadee
128. Verdin (post-GDR)
129. Bushtit
130. Brown Creeper
131. White-breasted Nuthatch
132. Red-breasted Nuthatch
133. Pygmy Nuthatch
134. House Wren
135. Winter Wren
136. Bewick's Wren
137. Cactus Wren
138. Marsh Wren
139. Canyon Wren
140. Rock Wren
141. Golden-crowned Kinglet
142. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
143. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
144. Western Bluebird
145. Mountain Bluebird
146. Townsend's Solitaire
147. Hermit Thrush
148. Varied Thrush
149. American Robin
150. Loggerhead Shrike
151. Gray Catbird
152. Northern Mockingbird
153. Sage Thrasher
154. Curve-billed Thrasher
155. American Pipit (post-GDR)
156. American Dipper
157. Phainopepla (post-GDR)
158. Cedar Waxwing
159. European Starling
160. Cassin's Vireo
161. Plumbeous Vireo
162. Warbling Vireo
163. Black-throated Gray Warbler (post-GDR)
164. Common Yellowthroat
165. MacGillivray's Warbler
166. Northern Waterthrush
167. Olive Warbler (post-GDR)
168. Orange-crowned Warbler
169. Townsend's Warbler
170. Wilson's Warbler
171. Yellow Warbler
172. Yellow-breasted Chat (post-GDR)
173. Yellow-rumped Warbler
174. Blue Grosbeak
175. Northern Cardinal (post-GDR)
176. Pyrrhuloxia
177. Lazuli Bunting (post-GDR)
178. Canyon Towhee
179. Green-tailed Towhee
180. Spotted Towhee
181. Black-throated Sparrow (post-GDR)
182. Brewer's Sparrow
183. Chipping Sparrow
184. Dark-eyed Junco
185. Grasshopper Sparrow
186. Lincoln's Sparrow
187. Rufous-crowned Sparrow (post-GDR)
188. Rufous-winged Sparrow (post-GDR)
189. Sage Sparrow
190. Savannah Sparrow
191. Song Sparrow
192. Vesper Sparrow
193. White-crowned Sparrow
194. Yellow-eyed Junco (post-GDR)
195. Eastern Meadowlark (post-GDR)
196. Western Meadowlark
197. Yellow-headed Blackbird
198. Red-winged Blackbird
199. Brewer's Blackbird
200. Brown-headed Cowbird
201. Great-tailed Grackle
202. Common Grackle
203. Hooded Oriole (post-GDR)
204. Western Tanager
205. Hepatic Tanager (post-GDR)
206. Pine Siskin
207. Lesser Goldfinch
208. American Goldfinch
209. Pine Grosbeak
210. Red Crossbill
211. Evening Grosbeak
212. Cassin's Finch
213. House Finch
214. House Sparrow