Birding in Big Bend Country
Birding in the Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park is spectacular. The area has a wealth of resources for our bird watching residents and visitors. Many of the birds that frequent this area:
- “Mexican Duck” (Mallard)
- Golden Eagle
- Peregrine & Prairie Falcons
- Scaled Quail
- Greater Roadrunner
- White-throated Swift
- Eastern & Western Screech-Owls
- Acorn Woodpecker
- Hutton’s Vireo
- Pyrrhuloxia
- Canyon Towhee
- Rufous-crowned & Black-chinned Sparrows
- Lesser Goldfinch are present year-round
- Common Black-Hawk
- Zone-tailed & Gray Hawks
- Lesser Nighthawk
- Common Poorwill
- Cordilleran Flycatcher
- Violet-green & Cave Swallows
- Phainopepla
- Black-capped Vireo
- Gray Vireo
- Colima Warbler
- Lucy’s Warbler
- Hepatic Tanager
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Sage Thrasher
- Golden-fronted Woodpecker
- Black & Say’s Phoebes
- Vermilion Flycatcher
- Mexican Jay
- Verdin
- Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
- Rock & Canyon Wrens
- Curve-billed & Crissal Thrashers
- Whip-poor-will
- Band-tailed Pigeon
- Elf & Flammulated Owls
- Lucifer Hummingbird
- Blue-throated Hummingbird
- Magnificent Hummingbird
- Broad-tailed & Rufous (by July) Hummingbirds
- Cassin’s Clay-colored, Brewer’s Sage, & Baird’s Sparrows
- Varied and Painted Buntings
- Bronzed Cowbird
- Hooded and Scott’s Orioles (Summer)
- Anna’s Hummingbird
- Yellow-bellied
- Red-naped Sapsuckers
- Townsend’s Solitaire
- Mountain & Western Bluebirds