río embudo birds

Range Maps:
Neo-tropical Migrants of the Spring-fed Arroyo:

These species breed here in the summer or pass through during migration to breeding grounds further north. They spend the winter south of the Tropic of Cancer. (For this work, I have included some species that vacate our area, but go only as far south as southern US and/or northern Mexico.)

(All of these species are protected under the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act - NMBCA. See Complete NMBCA list.

Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)


Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor)


Black-chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri)


Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus)


Western Wood-Pewee (Contopus sordidulus)


Gray Flycatcher (Empidonax wrightii)


Say's Phoebe (Sayornis saya)


Ash-throated Flycatcher (Myiarchus cinerascens)


Plumbeous Vireo (Vireo plumbeus)


Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina)


Northern Rough-winged Swallow (Stelgidopteryx serripennis)


House Wren (Troglodytes aedon)


Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea)


Orange-crowned Warbler (Oreothlypis celata)


Virginia's Warbler (Oreothlypis virginiae)


Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata)


Black-throated Gray Warbler (Setophaga nigrescens)


Wilson's Warbler (Cardellina pusilla)


Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)


Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana)


Black-headed Grosbeak (Pheucticus melanocephalus)


Blue Grosbeak (Passerina caerulea)


Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater)


Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria)



Maps Credit:

Range data provided by Infonatura/Natureserve. Ridgely, R. S., T. F. Alnutt, T. Brooks, D. K. McNicol, D. W. Mehlman, B. E. Young, and J. R. Zook. 2005 Digital Distribution Maps of the Birds of the Western Hemisphere, version 2.1 NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia, USA