Birds of Arizona
625 bird species have been recorded in Arizona on the eBird network — explore the 623 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
625 bird species have been recorded in Arizona on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 623 of them have a full profile in the Birbs encyclopedia — start with the well-known birds below, browse the complete list, then check which are being reported near you right now.
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Birds to know first
Abert’s TowheeMelozone aberti
Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
Acorn WoodpeckerMelanerpes formicivorus
African Collared DoveStreptopelia roseogrisea
African Sacred IbisThreskiornis aethiopicus
Allen’s HummingbirdSelasphorus sasin
American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
American Barn OwlTyto furcata
American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
American Black SwiftCypseloides niger
American BushtitPsaltriparus minimus
American Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
American CootFulica americana
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
American DipperCinclus mexicanus
American Dusky FlycatcherEmpidonax oberholseri
American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
American GoldfinchSpinus tristis
American Grey FlycatcherEmpidonax wrightii
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
American KestrelFalco sparverius
American PipitAnthus rubescens
American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
American RobinTurdus migratorius
American Three-toed WoodpeckerPicoides dorsalis
American Tree SparrowSpizelloides arborea
American White IbisEudocimus albus
American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
American WigeonMareca americana
American WoodcockScolopax minor
The full checklist — 623 birds of Arizona in our library
- Abert’s Towhee
- Acadian Flycatcher
- Acorn Woodpecker
- African Collared Dove
- African Sacred Ibis
- Allen’s Hummingbird
- American Avocet
- American Barn Owl
- American Bittern
- American Black Swift
- American Bushtit
- American Cliff Swallow
- American Coot
- American Crow
- American Dipper
- American Dusky Flycatcher
- American Golden Plover
- American Goldfinch
- American Goshawk
- American Grey Flycatcher
- American Herring Gull
- American Kestrel
- American Pipit
- American Redstart
- American Robin
- American Three-toed Woodpecker
- American Tree Sparrow
- American White Ibis
- American White Pelican
- American Wigeon
- American Woodcock
- American Yellow Warbler
- Anhinga
- Anna’s Hummingbird
- Aplomado Falcon
- Arctic Tern
- Arizona Woodpecker
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Aztec Thrush
- Baikal Teal
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Baird’s Sparrow
- Bald Eagle
- Baltimore Oriole
- Band-tailed Pigeon
- Barn Swallow
- Barrow’s Goldeneye
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Bell’s Sparrow
- Bell’s Vireo
- Belted Kingfisher
- Bendire’s Thrasher
- Berylline Hummingbird
- Bewick’s Wren
- Black Phoebe
- Black Rail
- Black Rosy Finch
- Black Scoter
- Black Skimmer
- Black Storm Petrel
- Black Swan
- Black Tern
- Black Turnstone
- Black Vulture
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck
- Black-billed Cuckoo
- Black-billed Magpie
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Black-capped Gnatcatcher
- Black-capped Vireo
- Black-chinned Hummingbird
- Black-chinned Sparrow
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-headed Grosbeak
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Black-necked Grebe
- Black-necked Stilt
- Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Black-throated Grey Warbler
- Black-throated Magpie-Jay
- Black-throated Sparrow
- Black-vented Oriole
- Black-vented Shearwater
- Blackburnian Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Blue Grosbeak
- Blue Jay
- Blue Mockingbird
- Blue-black Grassquit
- Blue-capped Cordon-bleu
- Blue-footed Booby
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
- Blue-headed Vireo
- Blue-throated Mountaingem
- Blue-winged Teal
- Blue-winged Warbler
- Bobolink
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Botteri’s Sparrow
- Brant Goose
- Brewer’s Blackbird
- Brewer’s Sparrow
- Bridled Titmouse
- Broad-billed Hummingbird
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Bronzed Cowbird
- Brown Creeper
- Brown Pelican
- Brown Thrasher
- Brown-backed Solitaire
- Brown-chested Martin
- Brown-crested Flycatcher
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Budgerigar
- Buff-breasted Flycatcher
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Buff-collared Nightjar
- Bufflehead
- Bumblebee Hummingbird
- Burrowing Owl
- Cackling Goose
- Cactus Wren
- California Condor
- California Gull
- California Quail
- California Scrub Jay
- Calliope Hummingbird
- Canada Goose
- Canada Jay
- Canada Warbler
- Canvasback
- Canyon Towhee
- Canyon Wren
- Cape May Warbler
- Carolina Wren
- Caspian Tern
- Cassin’s Finch
- Cassin’s Kingbird
- Cassin’s Sparrow
- Cassin’s Vireo
- Cave Swallow
- Cedar Waxwing
- Cerulean Warbler
- Chestnut-collared Longspur
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Chihuahuan Meadowlark
- Chihuahuan Raven
- Chimney Swift
- Chipping Sparrow
- Chukar Partridge
- Cinnamon Hummingbird
- Cinnamon Teal
- Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater
- Clark’s Grebe
- Clark’s Nutcracker
- Clay-colored Sparrow
- Clay-colored Thrush
- Cockatiel
- Cocos Booby
- Common Black Hawk
- Common Crane
- Common Gallinule
- Common Goldeneye
- Common Grackle
- Common Ground Dove
- Common Loon
- Common Merganser
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Pheasant
- Common Poorwill
- Common Ringed Plover
- Common Shelduck
- Common Starling
- Common Tern
- Common Yellowthroat
- Connecticut Warbler
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Coppery-tailed Trogon
- Costa’s Hummingbird
- Couch’s Kingbird
- Crescent-chested Warbler
- Crested Caracara
- Crissal Thrasher
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Curve-billed Thrasher
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Dickcissel
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Double-striped Thick-knee
- Downy Woodpecker
- Dunlin
- Dusky Grouse
- Dusky-capped Flycatcher
- Eared Quetzal
- Eastern Bluebird
- Eastern Kingbird
- Eastern Phoebe
- Eastern Towhee
- Eastern Warbling Vireo
- Eastern Whip-poor-will
- Eastern Wood Pewee
- Egyptian Goose
- Elegant Quail
- Elegant Tern
- Elf Owl
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Magpie
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Wigeon
- European Goldfinch
- Evening Grosbeak
- Ferruginous Hawk
- Ferruginous Pygmy Owl
- Field Sparrow
- Fischer’s Lovebird
- Five-striped Sparrow
- Flame-colored Tanager
- Flammulated Owl
- Forster’s Tern
- Franklin’s Gull
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Gadwall
- Gambel’s Quail
- Garganey
- Gila Woodpecker
- Gilded Flicker
- Glaucous Gull
- Glaucous-winged Gull
- Glossy Ibis
- Golden Eagle
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Golden-crowned Sparrow
- Golden-winged Warbler
- Grace’s Warbler
- Grasshopper Sparrow
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Great Egret
- Great Horned Owl
- Great Kiskadee
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Greater Pewee
- Greater Roadrunner
- Greater Scaup
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Green Heron
- Green Kingfisher
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Grey Catbird
- Grey Go-away-bird
- Grey Hawk
- Grey Plover
- Grey Vireo
- Grey-cheeked Thrush
- Grey-collared Becard
- Grey-crowned Rosy Finch
- Greylag Goose
- Groove-billed Ani
- Gull-billed Tern
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Hammond’s Flycatcher
- Harlequin Duck
- Harris’s Hawk
- Harris’s Sparrow
- Hawaiian Petrel
- Heermann’s Gull
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Hermit Thrush
- Hermit Warbler
- Hooded Merganser
- Hooded Oriole
- Hooded Warbler
- Horned Grebe
- Horned Lark
- House Finch
- House Sparrow
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Hudsonian Whimbrel
- Hutton’s Vireo
- Iceland Gull
- Inca Dove
- Indian Peafowl
- Indian Silverbill
- Indigo Bunting
- Ivory Gull
- Japanese Quail
- Juan Fernandez Petrel
- Juniper Titmouse
- Kentucky Warbler
- Killdeer
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker
- Lapland Longspur
- Lark Bunting
- Lark Sparrow
- Laughing Gull
- Lawrence’s Goldfinch
- Laysan Albatross
- Lazuli Bunting
- Least Bittern
- Least Flycatcher
- Least Grebe
- Least Sandpiper
- Least Storm Petrel
- Least Tern
- LeConte’s Sparrow
- LeConte’s Thrasher
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Goldfinch
- Lesser Nighthawk
- Lesser Scaup
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Lewis’s Woodpecker
- Lilac-crowned Amazon
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- Little Blue Heron
- Little Bunting
- Little Gull
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Long-billed Curlew
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Long-eared Owl
- Long-tailed Duck
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- Lucifer Sheartail
- Lucy’s Warbler
- MacGillivray’s Warbler
- Magnificent Frigatebird
- Magnolia Warbler
- Mallard
- Mandarin Duck
- Mangrove Warbler
- Marbled Godwit
- Marsh Wren
- Merlin
- Mexican Chickadee
- Mexican Duck
- Mexican Jay
- Mexican Whip-poor-will
- Mississippi Kite
- Monk Parakeet
- Montezuma Quail
- Mountain Bluebird
- Mountain Chickadee
- Mountain Plover
- Mountain Pygmy Owl
- Mourning Dove
- Mourning Warbler
- Muscovy Duck
- Mute Swan
- Myrtle Warbler
- Nanday Parakeet
- Nashville Warbler
- Nelson’s Sparrow
- Neotropic Cormorant
- Northern Beardless Tyrannulet
- Northern Bobwhite
- Northern Cardinal
- Northern Flicker
- Northern Harrier
- Northern House Wren
- Northern Jacana
- Northern Mockingbird
- Northern Parula
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Raven
- Northern Red Bishop
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Northern Saw-whet Owl
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Shrike
- Northern Tufted Flycatcher
- Northern Waterthrush
- Northern Wheatear
- Nutting’s Flycatcher
- Olive Warbler
- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Orchard Oriole
- Osprey
- Ovenbird
- Pacific Golden Plover
- Pacific Loon
- Pacific Wren
- Painted Bunting
- Painted Whitestart
- Palm Warbler
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Peach-fronted Parakeet
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Phainopepla
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Pine Flycatcher
- Pine Grosbeak
- Pine Siskin
- Pine Warbler
- Pinyon Jay
- Plain-capped Starthroat
- Plumbeous Vireo
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Prairie Falcon
- Prairie Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Purple Finch
- Purple Gallinule
- Purple Martin
- Pygmy Nuthatch
- Pyrrhuloxia
- Red Crossbill
- Red Fox Sparrow
- Red Junglefowl
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Red Tanager
- Red Warbler
- Red-billed Tropicbird
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-breasted Sapsucker
- Red-crested Pochard
- Red-crowned Amazon
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Red-faced Warbler
- Red-fronted Macaw
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- Red-legged Partridge
- Red-naped Sapsucker
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-throated Loon
- Red-throated Pipit
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Reddish Egret
- Redhead
- Redpoll
- Ridgway’s Rail
- Ring-billed Gull
- Ring-necked Duck
- Ringed Kingfisher
- Ringed Teal
- Rivoli’s Hummingbird
- Rock Dove
- Rock Wren
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Rose-throated Becard
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Ross’s Goose
- Rosy-faced Lovebird
- Rough-legged Buzzard
- Royal Tern
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Ruddy Duck
- Ruddy Ground Dove
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Rufous-backed Thrush
- Rufous-capped Warbler
- Rufous-crowned Sparrow
- Rufous-winged Sparrow
- Rusty Blackbird
- Sabine’s Gull
- Sage Thrasher
- Sagebrush Sparrow
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Sandhill Crane
- Savannah Sparrow
- Say’s Phoebe
- Scaled Quail
- Scaly-breasted Munia
- Scarlet Tanager
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- Scott’s Oriole
- Sedge Wren
- Semipalmated Plover
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Short-billed Gull
- Short-eared Owl
- Short-tailed Hawk
- Siberian Sand Plover
- Sinaloa Wren
- Slate-throated Whitestart
- Smith’s Longspur
- Snow Bunting
- Snow Goose
- Snowy Egret
- Snowy Plover
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Song Sparrow
- Sooty Shearwater
- Sora
- Spotted Owl
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Spotted Towhee
- Sprague’s Pipit
- Steller’s Jay
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Streak-backed Oriole
- Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
- Summer Tanager
- Sunda Zebra Finch
- Surf Scoter
- Swainson’s Hawk
- Swainson’s Thrush
- Swainson’s Warbler
- Swallow-tailed Kite
- Swamp Sparrow
- Swan Goose
- Tennessee Warbler
- Thick-billed Kingbird
- Thick-billed Longspur
- Thick-billed Parrot
- Townsend’s Solitaire
- Townsend’s Warbler
- Tree Swallow
- Tricolored Heron
- Tricolored Munia
- Tropical Kingbird
- Tropical Parula
- Trumpeter Swan
- Tufted Duck
- Tundra Swan
- Turkey Vulture
- Two-barred Crossbill
- Upland Sandpiper
- Varied Bunting
- Varied Thrush
- Vaux’s Swift
- Veery
- Venezuelan Troupial
- Verdin
- Vermilion Flycatcher
- Vesper Sparrow
- Village Indigobird
- Violet-crowned Hummingbird
- Violet-green Swallow
- Virginia Rail
- Virginia’s Warbler
- Vitelline Masked Weaver
- Wandering Tattler
- Wedge-rumped Storm Petrel
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater
- Western Bluebird
- Western Cattle Egret
- Western Flycatcher
- Western Grebe
- Western Gull
- Western Kingbird
- Western Meadowlark
- Western Sandpiper
- Western Screech Owl
- Western Tanager
- Western Warbling Vireo
- Western Wood Pewee
- Whiskered Screech Owl
- White Wagtail
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- White-cheeked Pintail
- White-crowned Sparrow
- White-eared Hummingbird
- White-eyed Vireo
- White-faced Ibis
- White-faced Whistling Duck
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- White-rumped Shama
- White-tailed Hawk
- White-tailed Kite
- White-tailed Tropicbird
- White-throated Magpie-Jay
- White-throated Sparrow
- White-throated Swift
- White-throated Thrush
- White-tipped Dove
- White-winged Dove
- White-winged Parakeet
- White-winged Scoter
- Whooping Crane
- Wild Turkey
- Willet
- Williamson’s Sapsucker
- Willow Flycatcher
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Wilson’s Snipe
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Winter Wren
- Wood Duck
- Wood Stork
- Wood Thrush
- Woodhouse’s Scrub Jay
- Worm-eating Warbler
- Yellow Grosbeak
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Yellow-billed Loon
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
- Yellow-collared Lovebird
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron
- Yellow-eyed Junco
- Yellow-footed Gull
- Yellow-green Vireo
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- Yellow-throated Warbler
- Zone-tailed Hawk
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Birds of Arizona by bird group
- Ducks, Geese & Swans of Arizona (53 species)
- New World Warblers of Arizona (51 species)
- New World Sparrows of Arizona (37 species)
- Sandpipers & Allies of Arizona (34 species)
- Tyrant Flycatchers of Arizona (34 species)
- Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of Arizona (28 species)
- Hawks, Eagles & Kites of Arizona (21 species)
- New World Blackbirds & Orioles of Arizona (19 species)
- Hummingbirds of Arizona (18 species)
Species lists and counts come from the eBird network; "recorded" means reported by birders to eBird. Tap any bird for its full profile, photos, sounds and ID notes.
Frequently asked questions
How many bird species are in Arizona?
625 species have been recorded in Arizona on eBird; 623 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in Arizona right now?
Use the Birds Near You tool to see species reported near you in the last few days, or browse the full checklist on this page.