10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2013
A Little Blue Heron/Tri-colored Heron hybrid was reported from Arizona in 1964 and a Little Blue Heron/Cattle Egret suspect was reported from California in 1989. As early as 1954 a suspected Little Blue Heron/Snowy Egret hybrid was reported from Florida.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2013
The program has been successful enough that some of the birds have been released back into protected areas in California, Arizona, and across the border in Baja, but the species is still far from out of the woods. California Condor , photo by Sheridan Woodley. Old Wold Vultures.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
The warm, sunny climate beckons a wide variety of passerines, raptors, and shorebirds to spend the winter, inflating the species diversity to the extent that Miami-Dade can go toe-to-toe with counties in Texas and Arizona during this season. Cattle Egret: 133. American White Pelican: 19. Brown Pelican: 53. American Bittern: 2.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2018
Beset by poaching by cattle ranchers, habitat loss, DDT, and lead poisoning (from consuming shotgun pellets embedded in the condor’s carrion fare), populations of this enormous New World vulture fell into a serious decline in the twentieth century. A California Condor soaring over the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
The proposition outlaws raising pregnant sows in gestation crates and raising calves in veal crates , making Arizona the first state in the Union to ban veal crates. To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farm animals, see here. September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2021
Even the American Southwest is benefitting from our newly-abundant monsoon rains, with Arizona and New Mexico now mostly out of the “exceptional drought” category. The good news is that this summer central Mexico is experiencing its best rains since 2018. Down here, it’s green as far as the eye can see.
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2019
Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Arizona Woodpecker – Dryobates arizonae. Gray-chested Dove – Leptotila cassinii. Laguna Lagarto Lodge. 01 Jun 2019. Purple-crowned Fairy – Heliothryx barroti. Laguna Lagarto Lodge. 01 Jun 2019. Laguna Lagarto Lodge. 01 Jun 2019. White-fronted Nunbird – Monasa morphoeus.
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