Caprock Canyons

CAPROCK CANYONS SP BIRD CHECKLIST This checklist is a list of common and specialty birds seen in the park. Staf and volunteers have used previous checklists as well as eBird data to compile these lists. This list should not be used as a comprehensive list of birds seen in this park. Please help us protect the natural avian communities by refraining from using playback tapes of bird songs. Thank you for your cooperation. Waterfowl ___ Snow Goose ___ Canada Goose ___ Blue-winged Teal ___ Northern Shoveler ___ Gadwall ___ American Wigeon ___ Mallard ___ Northern Pintail ___ Green-winged Teal ___ Redhead ___ Ring-necked Duck ___ Lesser Scaup ___ Bufehead ___ Hooded Merganser ___ Common Merganser ___ Ruddy Duck Grouse, Quail, and Allies ___ Northern Bobwhite ___ Scaled Quail ___ Ring-necked Pheasant ___ Wild Turkey Grebes ___ Pied-billed Grebe Pigeons and Doves ___ Rock Pigeon ___ Eurasian Collared-Dove ___ White-winged Dove ___ Mourning Dove Cuckoos ___ Greater Roadrunner ___ Yellow-billed Cuckoo Nightjars ___ Common Nighthawk ___ Common Poorwill Swifs ___ Chimney Swif Rails, Gallinules, and Allies ___ American Coot Cranes ___ Sandhill Crane Shorebirds ___ American Avocet ___ Killdeer ___ Wilson’s Snipe ___ Spotted Sandpiper ___ Greater Yellowlegs Herons, Ibis, and Allies ___ Great Blue Heron ___ Cattle Egret ___ Green Heron ___ Black-crowned Night-Heron ___ White-faced Ibis Vultures, Hawks, and Allies ___ Turkey Vulture ___ Osprey ___ Golden Eagle ___ Mississippi Kite ___ Northern Harrier ___ Sharp-shinned Hawk ___ Cooper’s Hawk ___ Swainson’s Hawk ___ Red-tailed Hawk ___ Ferruginous Hawk Owls ___ Barn Owl ___ Great Horned Owl ___ Burrowing Owl Kingfshers ___ Belted Kingfsher Woodpeckers ___ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ___ Golden-fronted Woodpecker ___ Downy Woodpecker ___ Ladder-backed Woodpecker ___ Northern Flicker Falcons and Caracaras ___ American Kestrel ___ Prairie Falcon Tyrant Flycatchers: Pewees, Kingbirds, and Allies ___ Eastern Phoebe ___ Say’s Phoebe ___ Ash-throated Flycatcher ___ Western Kingbird ___ Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Vireos ___ Bell’s Vireo Shrikes ___ Loggerhead Shrike Jays, Magpies, Crows, and Ravens ___ Blue Jay ___ Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay ___ American Crow ___ Chihuahuan Raven ___ Common Raven Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice ___ Black-crested Titmouse Larks ___ Horned Lark Martins and Swallows ___ Barn Swallow ___ Clif Swallow Long-tailed Tits and Bushtit ___ Bushtit Kinglets ___ Ruby-crowned Kinglet Gnatcatchers ___ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Wrens ___ Rock Wren ___ Canyon Wren ___ Marsh Wren ___ Carolina Wren ___ Bewick’s Wren Starlings and Mynas ___ European Starling Catbirds, Mockingbirds, and Thrashers ___ Curve-billed Thrasher ___ Brown Thrasher ___ Northern Mockingbird Thrushes ___ Mountain Bluebird ___ Hermit Thrush ___ American Robin Waxwings ___ Cedar Waxwing Old World Sparrows ___ House Sparrow Finches, Euphonias, and Allies ___ House Finch ___ Pine Siskin ___ Lesser Goldfnch ___ American Goldfnch New World Sparrows ___ Cassin’s Sparrow ___ Grasshopper Sparrow ___ Chipping Sparrow ___ Field Sparrow ___ Lark Sparrow ___ Lark Bunting ___ Dark-eyed Junco ___ White-crowned Sparrow ___ White-throated Sparrow ___ Vesper Sparrow ___ Savannah Sparrow ___ Song Sparrow ___ Lincoln’s Sparrow ___ Canyon Towhee ___ Rufous-crowned Sparrow ___ Spotted Towhee Yellow-breasted Chat ___ Yellow-breasted Chat Blackbirds ___ Yellow-headed Blackbird ___ Western Meadowlark ___ Eastern Meadowlark ___ Bullock’s Oriole ___ Red-winged Blackbird ___ Brown-headed Cowbird ___ Common Grackle ___ Great-tailed Grackle Wood-Warblers ___ Orange-crowned Warbler ___ Yellow Warbler ___ Yellow-rumped Warbler Cardinals, Grosbeaks, and Allies ___ Northern Cardinal ___ Blue Grosbeak ___ Indigo Bunting ___ Painted Bunting © 2021 TPWD PWD CD P4506-0079U (5/21) TPWD receives funds from the USFWS. TPWD prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, disability, age, and gender, pursuant to state and federal law. To request an accommodation or obtain information in an alternative format, please contact TPWD on a Text Telephone (TTY) at (512) 389-8915 or by Relay Texas at 7-1-1 or (800) 735-2989 or by email at accessibility@tpwd.texas.gov. If you believe you have been discriminated against by TPWD, please contact TPWD, 4200 Smith School Road, Austin, TX 78744, or the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Office for Diversity and Workforce Management, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041.