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Checklist B: Birds of the Tucson Mountains
From the Gates Pass Area Neighborhood Association Newsletter, Winter 2000
(Birds seen within about 1 mile of Camino De Oeste and Gates Pass Road, compiled by Roger Wolf, Tucson Audobon Society and Roger Carpenter.)
- Great blue heron
- White-faced ibis
- Gambell quail
- Northern harrier
- Cooper's hawk
- Red-tailed hawk
- Golden eagle
- Turkey vulture
- American kestrel
- Barn owl
- Western screech owl
- Great horned owl
- Elf owl
- Ferruginous pygmy owl (Sighted on Las Lomas property in 1989, 1991 & 1992.)
- Mourning dove
- White winged dove
- Rock dove (dom. pigeon)
- Roadrunner
- Common poor-will
- Lesser nighthawk
- Rufous hummingbird
- Allen's hummingbird
- Costa's hummingbird
- Gilded flicker
- Ladder -backed woodpecker
- Gila woodpecker
- White throated swift
- Brown-crested (*Wied's) flycatcher
- Ash-throated flycatcher
- Black phoebe
- Say's phoebe
- Gray flycatcher
- Western flycatcher
- Purple martin
- Barn swallow
- Raven (common?)
- Bushtit
- Verdin
- House wren
- Rock wren
- Cactus wren
- Canyon wren
- Ruby crowned kinglet
- Gnatcatchers, black tailed
- Northern mockingbird
- Curve-billed thrasher
- Hermit thrush
- Swainson's thrush
- European starling
- Phainopepla
- Solitary vireo
- Gray vireo
- Townsend's warbler
- Hermit warbler
- Black-throated (green?) warbler
- Lucy's warbler
- MacGillivray's warbler
- Yellow warbler
- Wilson's warbler
- Gray warbler?
- Western meadowlark
- Brown headed cowbird
- Bronzed cowbird
- Hooded oriole
- Scott's oriole
- Summer tanager
- White-crowned sparrow
- Black-throated sparrow
- black-chinned sparrow
- Chipping sparrow
- Song sparrow
- Canyon towhee
- Green-tailed towhee
- Black-headed grossbeak
- Pyrrhuloxia
- Cardinal
- House finch
- Lesser goldfinch
- House sparrow
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