West Texas Ornithology / Birding in the Big Bend region and Sierra La Rana community

Golden Eagle Birding in the Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park is spectacular. 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
  • Golden-fronted Woodpecker
  • Black & Say's Phoebes
  • Vermilion Flycatcher
  • Mexican Jay
  • Verdin
  • Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
  • Rock & Canyon Wrens
  • Curve-billed & Crissal Thrashers
Hummingbird
  • 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
  • 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
Bird Watcher
  • Cordilleran Flycatcher
  • Violet-green & Cave Swallows
  • Phainopepla
  • Black-capped Vireo
  • Gray Vireo
  • Colima Warbler
  • Lucy's Warbler
  • Hepatic Tanager
  • Green-tailed Towhee
  • Sage Thrasher
  • 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
The area has a wealth of resources for our bird watching residents and visitors.



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