List of Sonoran Desert Birds (Arizona) - Southeast Region

Southeast Region

The southeast Arizona region is defined by: 1–the mountains of eastern Arizona, extending into western and southwestern New Mexico; 2–the sky islands defined by the NW–to–SE trending mountain ranges(formerly of the Basin and Range geology), also called regionally the Madrean sky islands; and 3–the northernmost extension of the western spine mountain range of Mexico, the Sierra Madre Occidental(West). The result is a biome region particular to its: geographic locale, elevation, and proximity to flyways, namely for the mountains(of Mexico, the United States, and to Canada), and for the proximity to the Gulf of California, Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific Ocean.

• Abert's Towhee
  Melozone aberti

• Phainopepla
  Phainopepla nitens

• Yellow-headed
  Blackbird
  Xanthocephalus
  xanthocephalus