The Birds of the Black Range
Arranged by English Common Name - “J-K-L"

Pinyon Jay
Gymorhinus cyanocephalus
Sawmill Canyon
Black Range
New Mexico

Steller’s Jay
Cyanocitta stelleri macrolopha
Black Range Crest Trail
Black Range
& Hillsboro
New Mexico

The range of the Steller’s Jay extends from southern Alaska and British Columbia to Nicaragua. There are 17 recognized subspecies. A mimic, it will sometimes make a call like a predator (e.g. Red-Tailed Hawk) to frighten other birds away from a feeding area.

Dark-eyed Junco (Grey-headed)
Junco hyemalis caniceps
Forest Service Trail 796 from Kingston Cemetery to
Emory Pass
Black Range
New Mexico
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Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon Group)
Junco hyemalis
Hillsboro, New Mexico

Dark-eyed Junco (Pink-sided)
Junco hyemalis mearnsi
Tierra Blanca Road, east slope of Black Range & Hillsboro
New Mexico
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Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)
Junco hyemalis hyemalis
Hillsboro
New Mexico

What appears to be a White-winged (Dark-eyed) Junco is actually a morph variant of the Slate-colored.

American Kestrel
Falco sparverius
Grant County
New Mexico

Killdeer
Charadrius vociferus
Cañada Alamosa
Black Range
New Mexico
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Cassin’s Kingbird
Tyrannus vociferans
Hillsboro
New Mexico
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Western Kingbird
Tyrannus verticalis
Rio Mimbres
San Lorenzo and
various other
locations in the
Black Range
New Mexico

Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Regulus calendula
Hillsboro &
the Black Range
Crest Trail
New Mexico
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