Checklist - Lower Queretaro

Birds of Queretaro - checklist (Sierra Gorda separate) Status Difficulty  Best Sites  Black-bellied Whistling Duck V 1 CN Fulvous Whistling Duck S, V 2 LL Status Snow Goose W 1 LL R=Resident Gadwall W 3 CE W=Winter American Wigeon W 3 CE,LL S=Summer Mexican Duck R 4 CE T=Transient Blue-winged Teal W 5 CE V=Vagrant Cinnamon Teal W 3 FZ Northern Shoveler W 5 CE Difficulty Northern Pintail W 4 CE 1= very hard Green-winged Teal W 5 CE 2=hard Canvasback W 2 CE 3=reasonable chance Redhead W 1 CE 4=reasonably easy Ring-necked Duck W 3 CE,LP 5= guaranteed Lesser Scaup W 2 CE,LP Hooded Merganser V 1 CN Sites Ruddy Duck W 5 CE CN=Presa Constitucion Bufflehead W 1 CE LL=La Llave Northern Bobwhite R 2 CN CE= Presa Centenario Common Loon W, V 1 FZ=Fuentezuelas Least Grebe R 2 LL LP=Lago Pelicanos Pied-billed Grebe R 2 LL, CO CO=Colon Eared Grebe R 5 CE EC=El Cerrito American White Pelican W 3 CN, LP TF=Tequisquiapan Farmland Neotropic Cormorant W 4 CN, CO TX=Tequisquiapan Centro Least Bittern ? 1 WH= Watering Hole Great Blue Heron W 4 CN H=Huimilpan Great Egret R 5 CN Snowy Egret R 5 CN Tricolored Heron ? 1 CN Cattle Egret R 5 Green Heron W 1 CE Black-crowned Night Heron R 4 PLP White-faced Ibis R 5 Roseate Spoonbill V 1 CN American Bittern W 1 LL Turkey Vulture R 5 Osprey T 1 CO White-tailed Kite R 3 TF Northern Harrier W 4 TF Sharp-shinned Hawk W 2 Cooper's Hawk W 2 Red-tailed Hawk W 3 TF White-tailed Hawk R 1 H American Kestrel W 4 TF Crested Caracara R 3 TF Merlin W 1 Peregrine R 3 CE, TF Sora V, W 1 LL Common Moorhen R 2 FZ American Coot R 5 CE Black-bellied Plover V 1 CN American Golden-Plover V 1 Semipalmated Plover T 2 CE Snowy Plover ? 2 CE Killdeer R 5 Black-necked Stilt R 5 CE American Avocet R 4 CE,CN Northern Jacana R 2 LL Spotted Sandpiper T,W 5 Solitary Sandpiper T 1 Pectoral Sandpiper T 1 Greater Yellowlegs T,W 3 Lesser Yellowlegs T,W 3 Upland Sandpiper T 1 Willet V 1 Whimbrel T 1 Hudsonian Godwit T 1 Long-billed Curlew T 1 Western Sandpiper T,W 2 CE Least Sandpiper T,W 5 CE Baird's Sandpiper T 5 CE Stilt Sandpiper T,W 3 CE Long-billed Dowitcher W 4 WH,CE Wilson's Snipe T,W 3 CE,CN Wilson's Phalarope T 5 CE,LL Laughing Gull T,W 3 CN Franklin's Gull T 1 Ring-billed Gull W 3 CN Forster's Tern T,W 1 CE Royal Tern T 1 Black Tern T 1 CE,CN Rock Dove R 5 White-winged Dove R 5 Mourning Dove R 5 Inca Dove R 5 Common Ground Dove R 3 Greater Roadrunner R 2 Barn Owl R 2 TX Lesser Nighthawk R 3 TX Vaux's Swift T 1 White-collared Swift R 2 EC White-eared Hummingbird R 2 EC Blue-throated Hummingbird R 1 EC Magnificent Hummingbird R 2 EC Lucifer Hummingbird R 1 EC Broad-billed Hummingbird R 5 Violet-crowned Hummingbird R 5 Green Kingfisher T 1 CN Golden-fronted Woodpecker R 5 Ladderback  R 3 Northern Beardless Tyrannulet R 2 Least Flycatcher T 1 Grey Flycatcher ? 2 Cordilleran Flycatcher T 1 Black Phoebe R 4 Say's Phoebe W 2 Eastern Phoebe W 2 TF Vermilion Flycatcher R 5 Greater Peewee R 1 H Great Kiskadee R 2 CO Cassin's Kingbird R 5 Grey Silky R 1 CN Ash-throated Flycatcher R 2 Loggerhead Shrike R 5 Chihuahuan Raven R 2 Northern Raven R 4 Horned Lark W 4 CN Barn Swallow S 5 Cliff Swallow T 2 CN Tree Swallow T 2 CN Bank Swallow T 2 CN Violet-green Swallow W 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow T 1 Verdin R 3 Bushtit R 3 Cactus Wren R 5 Canyon Wren R 2 Bewick's Wren R 3 House Wren W 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet W 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher R 5 Clay-colored Robin R 3 TX American Robin W 2 TX Northern Mockingbird W 3 Curve-billed Thrasher R 5 Orange-crowned Warbler W 3 Nashville Warbler W 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler W 5 Black-throated Gray Warbler W 2 Painted Redstart R 2 EC, H Common Yellowthroat W 3 LP,LL Wilson's Warbler W 4 Northern Waterthrush W 1 CN Hermit Warbler W 1 H Townsend's Warbler W 1 H White-collared Seedeater R 4 Canyon Towhee R 5 Chipping Sparrow W 3 Clay-colored Sparrow W 5 TF Black-chinned Sparrow R 2 EC Vesper Sparrow W 2 TF Lark Sparrow W 5 Savannah Sparrow R 4 Grasshopper Sparrow W 2 TF Lincoln's Sparrow W 2 Summer Tanager W 2 Flame-colored Tanager T 1 Western Tanager W 2 Northern Cardinal W 1 Blue Grosbeak R 3 Indigo Bunting  R 2 Varied Bunting ? 3 Red-winged Blackbird R 4 Eastern Meadowlark W 4 TF, CN Yellow-headed Blackbird W 5 TF Brewer's Blackbird W 2 TF Great-tailed Grackle R 5 Bronzed Cowbird R 4 TF Brown-headed Cowbird R 5 Hooded Oriole W 2 Abeille's Oriole R 4 Black-vented Oriole R 1 House Finch R 5 Lesser Goldfinch R 4 House Sparrow R 5