Bird List
Estuary and Coastal Seabirds on the Sea of Cortez in Southern Sonora. List courtesy of Stephanie Meyer Natural History Tours.
Pacific Loon
Mallard Duck
Common Loon
Mexican Mallard Duck
Least Grebe
Northern Pintail
Eared Grebe
Common Goldeneye
Western Grebe
Northern Shoveler
Clark’s Grebe
American Wigeon
Red-billed Tropicbird
Ring-Necked Duck
Blue-Footed Booby
Lesser Scaup
Brown Booby
Bufflehead
American White Pelican
Red-Breasted Merganser
Brown Pelican
Ruddy Duck
Double-Crested Cormorant
Black Vulture
Neotropic Cormorant
Turkey Vulture
Magnificent Frigatebird
Osprey
Great Blue Heron
Crested Caracara
Great Egret
Common Moorhen
Snowy Egret
American Coot
Little Blue Heron
Black-Bellied Plover
Tricolored Heron
Killdeer
Reddish Egret
American Oystercatcher
Cattle Egret
Black-Necked Stilt
Green Heron
American Avocet
Black-Crowned Night-Heron
Greater Yellowlegs
White Ibis
Solitary Sandpiper
White-Faced Ibis
Willet
Roseate Spoon Bill
Spotted Sandpiper
Wood Stork
Whimbrel
Black-Bellied Whistling-Duck
Long-Billed Curlew
Brant Goose
Marbled Godwit
Green-Winged Teal
Black Turnstone
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Stilt Sandpiper
Surfbird
Red Phalarope
Bonapartes Gull
Heermann’s Gull
Ring-Billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Yellow-Footed Gull
Western Gull
Laughing Gull
Gull-Billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Elegant Tern
Sooty Tern
Forster’s Tern
Black Skimmer
Mangrove Cuckoo
Belted Kingfisher
Green Kingfisher
Great Kiskadee
Mangrove Swallow
Lousiana Waterthrush
Mangrove Warbler
Blue-Winged Teal
Short-Billed Dowitcher
Cinnamon Teal
Long-Billed Dowichter