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This list of birds of the Sonoran Desert includes all bird species endemic to the Sonoran Desert, and related areas; (a few species listed are only "native" and have a larger continental range). They are retrieved from the List of birds of Yuma County, Arizona , though not exclusively.
The greater roadrunner, a bird symbolic to much of Arizona, is common in all low desert environments. This is a list of birds of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The following markings are used: (A) Accidental - occurrence based on fewer than 10 records and unlikely to occur regularly (E) Extinct - a recent species that no longer exists
The back and wings of this bird are spotted and barred with a black and white zebra-like pattern. The neck, throat, belly and head are greyish-tan in color. The male has a small red cap on the top of the head. Females and juveniles are similar, but both lack the red cap of the adult male. White wing patches are prominent in flight.
The Arizona bark scorpion (Centruroides sculpturatus, once included in Centruroides exilicauda) is a small light brown scorpion common to the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. An adult male can reach 8 centimetres (3.1 in) of body length, while a female is slightly smaller, with a maximum length of 7 ...
The curve-billed thrasher is commonly found throughout the southwestern United States from Arizona's Sonoran Desert across New Mexico to west Texas, southeastern Colorado and southwestern Kansas as well as most of Mexico from the Sonoran-Chihuahuan Deserts and south through the Mexican Plateau into Central Tamaulipas, inland to Oaxaca, and on ...
C. Cactus mouse; Cactus wren; California leaf-nosed bat; Canis latrans mearnsi; Canyon bat; Canyon wren; Cassin's vireo; Chihuahuan spotted whiptail; Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard
The Sonoran Desert. The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert and ecoregion which covers large parts of the southwestern United States and of northwestern Mexico. With an area of 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 sq mi), it is the hottest desert in Mexico. The western portion of the Mexico–United States border passes through the Sonoran ...
1 Birds. 2 Insects/arthropods ... Common side-blotched lizard; Desert horned lizard; Desert iguana–(?) ... Fauna of the Sonoran Desert; List of Sonoran Desert birds ...