Tucson Bird Count – Bringing Birds Home
Welcome to the Tucson Bird Count
Where Birds Thrive, People Prosper
Check out our new data-viewing features! You can choose a bird species and see where in the study area they have been detected. Click on one of those points and see how the detections have changed over time with an auto generated graph and corresponding table.
See this data analysis feature
here
or click the image below of a sample graph.
Example of graph showing occurences of Cactus Wren over time in a Tucson Bird Count survey location in Saguaro National Park.
Welcome to the Tucson Bird Count website! Data entry, resources for surveyor and summaries are located under the Results and Data Entry Tab.
Welcome to the Tucson Bird Count!
Where Birds Thrive, People Prosper
The Tucson Bird Count is dedicated to making Tucson a better place for birds and for all of us
The Tucson Bird Count aims to help people make informed decisions regarding the impacts of human actions on wildlife. Urbanization is a movement that is well established and will continue to grow in the future and one way to reconcile that loss of habitat is to endeavor to share our urban space with native birds and wildlife. Through informed decisions we can all help Tucson sustain a diverse bird community which is good for the birds and also enhances the quality of life for Tucson’s human inhabitants.
The Tucson Bird Count is a citizen-science driven effort that has documented how native birds use the habitat within and surrounding Tucson for over a decade. The information gained through this study has allowed informed recommendations on what Tucsonans can do within their yards, neighborhoods and communities to make Tucson a better place for birds. As Tucsonans make changes and efforts to share their city space with native birds, the count effort itself will document how birds respond to all of our efforts to provide habitat for native birds right within our own habitat.
Whether you are helping with the volunteer annual bird counting efforts or enhancing your urban habitat for the benefit of native birds, you are helping make Tucson a better place for birds and for all of us. Thank you.
2025 Tucson Bird Count
Available Routes
These are the routes that are currently available and in need of a counter. Each route is a series of multiple points and each route is a different color. Please email Jennie at jmacfarland@tucsonaudubon.org to claim a route. I am doing my best to keep this map current and routes are first come, first served.
List of Spring Routes Available in 2025 – Counted Once a Year
112
North West – Oracle from Ina to Hardy
113
North West – Oracle from River to Hardy
119
North West – Silverbell and Sunset, west of I-10
120
North West – West of Silverbell at Orange Grove, inlcudes some desert locations
121
North West – Sunset and Gerhart
123
Central West – West of Silverbell around Sweetwater Drive
124
Central West – West of Silverbell from Ironwood Hill Dr. to Sweetwater Dr.
126
Central West – Speedway west into Tucson Mountain Park
130
Central West – west of I-10 from Speedway to Sweetwater Dr.
132
Central West – From Starr Pass and Greasewood to Grant and 1st St.
133
South West – I-19 conection with I-10 north to Congress
135
South West – Ajo and Kinney Rd.
136
South West – Ajo and Mission Rd near Kennedy Park
138
South West – I-19 from Valencia to Ajo
140
Central South – Campbell from Valencia to Benson Hwy
141
Central South – west of Alvernon from Valenica to Silverlake
142
Central South – west of Alvernon from Valencia to 36th St.
144
Central South – north of Valencia and east of Alvernon
155
Central East – Golflinks from Wilmot to Houghton
157
Central East – Harrison from 22nd to Wrightstown
159
North East – Soldier Trail from Speedway to Snyder
163
Central East – 22nd and Houghton
170
North West – Oracle and Ina
172
North West – Oracle and Lambert
173
North West – La Canada and Lambert
175
North West – Cortaro Farms Rd west of I-10
176
North West – Cortaro and Silverbell
178
North West – west of Cortaro and Thornydale
179
Marana – Silverbell and Twin Peaks
180
Oro Valley – Thornydale and Lambert
185
South West – Ajo east of Kinney Rd.
List of Park Routes Available in 2025 – Counted Four Times a Year
507
Arroyo Chico Wash, Tucson to Randolph
516
Fred Enke Wash
512
Woodland Road – has some transects
529
Feliz Paseos Park
530
Tucson Mountain Park
535
James Kriegh Park
538
Barrio Kroeger Lane Neighborhood
541
Pima Canyon Estates
545
Tumamoc Hill
547
Greasewood Park
548
Avra Valley WWTP
550
Las Milpitas Farm
943
Sabino Canyon – Bear Canyon
About the Tucson Bird Count
Bringing Birds Home
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Results & Data Entry