Please note: Only regularly occurring and relatively uncommon to common backyard and neighborhood species are shown, with typical season of occurrence. (No seasonal info means resident species). Birds are given in the order they are listed on the Sun City bird checklist, click below this space. https://www.martinbyhower.com/uploads/1/2/3/9/123917025/sun_city_bird_checklist2018_pdf.pdf
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Note that birds are not in current AOU taxonomic order!

Black-bellied Whistling Duck (Local parks near water)

Black-bellied Whistling Duck

Breeding in Sun City!

Wood Duck (female)

Blue-winged Teal (male) (mainly winter)

Northern Shoveler (winter)

Bufflehead (male) (winter)

Ring/necked Duck (male) (winter)

Lesser Scaup (males) (winter)

Lesser Scaup (males)

Pied-billed Grebe (Local parks near water)

Pied-billed Grebe

Sandhill Cranes (Migration)

Sandhill Cranes

Wild Turkey (as if you didn't know!)

Wild Turkeys

Double-crested Cormorant (Local parks near water)

Cormorants with Great Egret

American White Pelican (most likely winter)

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret (breeding plumage) (Local parks near water)

Great Egret

Snowy Egret (Local parks near water)

Snowy Egret

Green Heron (Local parks near water)

Yellow-crowned Night-heron (Local parks near water)

Etouffe

Turkey Vulture

Black Vulture

TV

BV

Black (l) and Turkey (r) Vultures

Mississippi Kite (Mainly during migration)

Mississippi Kite

Mississippi Kites

Cooper's Hawk Juvenile

Cooper's Hawk Juvenile

Cooper’s Hawk adult

Red-shouldered Hawk

Red-shouldered Hawk

Red-shouldered Hawk in flight

Red-tailed Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Killdeer

Spotted Sandpiper-winter plumage

Spotted Sandpiper-breeding plumage (Winter and migration)

Least Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper (Winter and migration)

Franklin's Gull (migration)

Franklin's Gull

Ring-billed Gulls

Eurasian Collared-dove (Farmlands and H-E-B parking lots)

Eurasian Collared-dove

White-winged Dove

White-winged Dove

Mourning Dove

Mourning Dove

Inca Dove

Inca Dove

Rock Pigeon

Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Migration and summer breeder)

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Greater Roadrunner

Greater Roadrunner

Roadrunners CAN fly (but they don’t like to)

Eastern Screech-owl

Eastern Screech-owl

Great-horned Owl

Great-horned Owl

Great-horned Owl juvenile

Common Nighthawk (Summer)

Common Nighthawk

Chimney Swift (Mainly migration)

Chimney Swift

Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Migration)

Black-chinned Hummingbird male

Black-chinned Hummingbird (Female on nest) (Migration and summer breeder)

Black-chinned Hummingbird Female

Black-chinned Hummingbird male showing purple gorget

Rufous Hummingbird (male)

Rufous Hummingbird (male)

Belted Kingfisher (Always near water)

Belted Kingfisher

Red-bellied Woodpecker (male)

Red-bellied Woodpecker (female)

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Red-bellied Woodpecker (with deformed bill)

Male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Winter)

Male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Male Ladder-backed Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker female

Female Ladder-backed Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker male

Northern Flicker (winter)

Northern Flicker

Crested Caracara

Crested Caracara

American Kestrel (mainly Winter)

American Kestrel

American Kestrel

Least Flycatcher (Migration)

Eastern Phoebe

Eastern Phoebe

Great Crested Flycatcher (Migration)

Great Crested Flycatcher

Western Kingbird (summer)

Couch’s Kingbird

Couch’s Kingbird

Eastern Kingbird (migration and summer)

Eastern Kingbird

Scissortail Flycatcher (summer)

Scissortail Flycatcher

Scissortail Flycatcher

Loggerhead Shrike (mainly winter)

Loggerhead Shrike

White-eyed Vireo (mainly Summer and migration)

White-eyed Vireo

White-eyed Vireo

White-eyed Vireo

Yellow-throated Vireo

Yellow-throated Vireo (Summer breeder)

Blue–headed Vireo (Migration and winter)

Red-eyed Vireo (migration)

Blue Jay (resident)

Blue Jay

American Crow (Resident)

Northern rough-winged Swallow (Summer, mainly near water)

Northern rough-winged Swallow

Purple Martin female

Purple Martins (summer mainly near martin houses)

Purple Martin

Barn Swallow (summer)

Barn Swallow

Barn Swallow

Cave Swallow (summer)

Carolina Chickadee

Carolina Chickadee

Black-crested x Tufted (hybrid) Titmouse

Black-crested x Tufted (hybrid) Titmouse

Canyon Wren (localized near rocks and/or water)

House Wren (winter)

Bewick's Wren

Bewick's Wren

Carolina Wren

Carolina Wren

Carolina Wren

Carolina Wren

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (some year round, mainly migration)

Here's looking at you!

Golden-crowned Kinglet (winter)

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Ruby-crowned Kinglet (winter and migration)

Eastern Bluebird

Eastern Bluebird

Eastern Bluebird (female and male)

Eastern Bluebird (juvenile)

Swainson's Thrush (migration)

Swainson's Thrush (migration)

Hermit Thrush (winter)

Hermit Thrush

Hermit Thrush

Hermit Thrush

American Robin

American Robin snow bathing

American Robin Juvenile

Gray Catbird (migration)

Brown Thrasher (uncommon in winter)

Northern Mockingbird: State bird of Texas!

European Starling

American Pipit

American Pipit

Cedar Waxwing and Yaupon

Cedar Waxwing and Yaupon

Cedar Waxwing and Yaupon

Black-and-white Warbler (migration and uncommon in winter)

Orange – crowned Warbler (winter)

Orange – crowned Warbler (winter)

Orange – crowned Warbler (winter)

Nashville Warbler (migrant )

Yellow Warbler (migrant)

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Spring and migrant breeding plumage)

Yellow-rumped Warbler (winter plumage)

Yellow-rumped Warbler (winter plumage)

Black-throated Green Warbler (migration)

Wilsons Warbler (migration)

Yellow-breasted Chat (migration)

Spotted Towhee (winter)

Spotted Towhee (winter)

Rufous-crowned Sparrow

Chipping Sparrow

Chipping Sparrow (winter plumage)

Chipping Sparrow

Clay-colored Sparrow (migration)

Clay-colored Sparrow (migration)

Field Sparrow (winter)

Field Sparrow (winter)

Vesper Sparrow (winter)

Vesper Sparrow (winter)

Lark Sparrow

Lark Sparrow

Savannah Sparrow (winter)

Savannah Sparrow (winter)

Grasshopper Sparrow (winter)

Grasshopper Sparrow (winter)

Fox Sparrow (winter)

Fox Sparrow (winter)

Song Sparrow (mainly winter)

Lincoln’s Sparrow (winter)

Lincoln’s Sparrow (winter)

Lincoln’s Sparrow (winter)

White-throated Sparrow (black-headed and brown-headed morphs). (Winter)

White-throated Sparrow (Winter)

Harris’s Sparrow (winter)

White-crowned Sparrow (winter)

Dark-eyed Junco male (winter)

Dark-eyed Junco female (winter)

Dark-eyed Junco male (winter)

Dark-eyed Junco female (winter)

Summer Tanager (male) (summer)

Summer Tanager (male) (summer)

Summer Tanager (female) (summer)

Summer Tanager (juvenile male) (summer)

Summer Tanager (female) (summer)

Northern Cardinal (male)

Northern Cardinal (male)

Northern Cardinal (female)

Rose-breasted Grosbeak (male) migrant

Rose-breasted Grosbeak (male) migrant

Blue Grosbeak (male) (migrant and summer breeder)

Blue Grosbeak (male) (migrant and summer breeder)

Blue Grosbeak (male) (migrant and summer breeder)

Indigo Bunting (male) (migrant)

Indigo Bunting (female) (migrant)

Painted Bunting (male) (summer)

Painted Bunting (male) (summer)

Painted Bunting (female) (summer)

Painted Bunting (male) (summer)

Painted Bunting (male) (summer)

Dickcissal (migrant)

Red-winged Blackbird (male)

Red-winged Blackbird (juvenile male)

Red-winged Blackbird (female)

Red-winged Blackbird (male)

Eastern or Western Meadowlark (migrant)

Eastern Meadowlark (migrant) (identified by song)

Common Grackle (male)

Great-tailed Grackle (male)

Brown-headed Cowbird (males)

Brown-headed Cowbird (male)

Brown-headed Cowbird (males and females) (and brown-headed cow)

Orchard Oriole (male) (migrant)

Orchard Oriole (male) (migrant)

Orchard Oriole (female) (migrant)

Baltimore Oriole (male) (migrant)

House Finch (male)

House Finch (female)

Pine Siskin (winter)

Pine Siskin (winter)

Pine Siskins (winter)

Lesser Goldfinch (male)

Lesser Goldfinch (male)

Lesser Goldfinch (female)

American Goldfinch (winter, winter plumage)

American Goldfinch (winter, winter plumage)