Review List of the Birds of Arizona.
This list contains 142 review species of birds that have been
accepted by the Arizona Bird Committee as of Jan 2025.
This list conforms to the A.O.U. checklist order and
nomenclature as of the 66th supplement July 2025.
Subspecies common names are derived from eBird Taxonomy,
available online at:
ebird taxonomy
| Fulvous Whistling-Duck |
| Brant |
| Trumpeter Swan |
| Baikal Teal |
| Garganey |
| Tufted Duck |
| Harlequin Duck | White-tipped Dove |
| Black-billed Cuckoo |
| Eastern Whip-poor-will |
| Black Swift |
| Chimney Swift |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
| Bumblebee Hummingbird |
| Cinnamon Hummingbird |
| Purple Gallinule |
| Common Crane |
| Pacific Golden-Plover |
| Lesser Sand-Plover |
| Northern Jacana |
| Upland Sandpiper |
| Hudsonian Godwit |
| Ruddy Turnstone |
| Black Turnstone |
| Red Knot |
| Ruff |
| Curlew Sandpiper |
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper |
| White-rumped Sandpiper |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
| American Woodcock |
| Wandering Tattler |
| Pomarine Jaeger |
| Parasitic Jaeger |
| Long-tailed Jaeger |
| Black-legged Kittiwake |
| Ivory Gull |
| Little Gull |
| Western Gull |
| Yellow-footed Gull |
| Iceland Gull |
| Glaucous-winged Gull |
| Glaucous Gull |
| Gull-billed Tern |
| Arctic Tern |
| Royal Tern |
| Elegant Tern |
| Black Skimmer |
| White-tailed Tropicbird |
| Red-billed Tropicbird |
| Yellow-billed Loon |
| Laysan Albatross |
| Leach’s Storm-Petrel |
| Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel |
| Black Storm-Petrel |
| Least Storm-Petrel |
| Juan Fernandez Petrel |
| Hawaiian Petrel |
| Wedge-tailed Shearwater |
| Sooty Shearwater |
| Black-vented Shearwater |
| Wood Stork |
| Magnificent Frigatebird |
| Blue-footed Booby |
| Cocos Booby |
| Anhinga |
| Yellow-crowned Night-Heron |
| White Ibis |
| Glossy Ibis |
| Swallow-tailed Kite |
| White-tailed Hawk |
| Eared Quetzal |
| Ringed Kingfisher |
| Red-headed Woodpecker |
| Aplomado Falcon |
| Thick-billed Parrot |
| Gray-collared Becard |
| Nutting's Flycatcher |
| Great Crested Flycatcher |
| Great Kiskadee |
| Couch's Kingbird |
| Tufted Flycatcher |
| Eastern Wood-Pewee |
| Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
| Acadian Flycatcher |
| Least Flycatcher |
| Pine Flycatcher |
| Black-capped Vireo |
| Blue-headed Vireo |
| Philadelphia Vireo |
| Yellow-green Vireo |
| Blue Jay |
| California Scrub-Jay | Black-capped Chickadee |
| Brown-chested Martin |
| Cave Swallow |
| Bohemian Waxwing |
| Sinaloa Wren |
| Carolina Wren |
| Sedge Wren |
| Blue Mockingbird |
| Brown-backed Solitaire |
| Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush |
| Veery |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush |
| Wood Thrush |
| Clay-colored Thrush |
| White-throated Thrush |
| Aztec Thrush |
| Northern Wheatear |
| White Wagtail |
| Red-throated Pipit |
| Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch |
| Black Rosy-Finch |
| Common Redpoll |
| White-winged Crossbill |
| Smith's Longspur |
| Snow Bunting |
| Little Bunting |
| Field Sparrow |
| American Tree Sparrow |
| LeConte's Sparrow |
| Nelson's Sparrow |
| Eastern Towhee |
| Bobolink |
| Black-vented Oriole |
| Golden-winged Warbler |
| Blue-winged Warbler |
| Swainson's Warbler |
| Crescent-chested Warbler |
| Connecticut Warbler |
| Mourning Warbler |
| Cape May Warbler |
| Cerulean Warbler |
| Tropical Parula |
| Bay-breasted Warbler |
| Mangrove Yellow Warbler |
| Prairie Warbler |
| Fan-tailed Warbler |
| Canada Warbler |
| Slate-throated Redstart |
| Flame-colored Tanager |
| Yellow Grosbeak |
| Blue-black Grassquit |
Subspecies and forms
The following subspecies and forms have been reported, reviewed and accepted at least once in Arizona and are still on the review list for the ABC:
| "Eurasian" Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca crecca) * |
| "Eastern" Bell's Vireo (Vireo bellii bellii) * |
| "Eastern" Purple Finch (Haemorhous purpureus purpureus) * |
| "Thick-billed" Fox Sparrow (Passerella iliaca megarhyncha) * |
| "White-winged" Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis aikeni) * |
| "Large-billed" Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis rostratus) * |
| "Eastern" Hooded Oriole(Icterus cucullatus cucullatus/sennetti) * |
| "Mangrove" Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia erithachorides) * |