List of birds of the Madrean Sky Islands

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.


 * 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