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Getting to actually see four species, in the last two weeks, and to hear two more is almost unheard of in my experience. Sneaking down the slimy bank carefully… Umm cool water on a pretty hot Arizona day! The post Owls, Owls, and more Owls in SE Arizona appeared first on 10,000 Birds.
These birds also invite one to sites that are unique within the United States – the climate, vegetation, and landscapes all add context and heighten the experience of seeing one’s first Elegant Trogon or Painted Bunting. Southeast Arizona Sky Island Spring Sampler. So let’s look at this sampler, shall we?
It’s a well-known fact that southeast Arizona in summer is awesome. My first birding trip ever was to Arizona. Here are some of the best experiences of my excellent trip. It was time to drive south and up, to the Sky Islands of southeast Arizona. It is my experience that good things happen after trips and festivals end.
In this first installment, I will focus on my impressions and experiences in the highlands portion of our tour. The experience of seeing a pair feeding and calling in the mountains of Honduras felt like a much more genuine birding experience to me. Trips Honduran birding La Tigra motmot'
For example, this is really the only time of year I get excited about cardinals, at least if they are from Arizona. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. We are all entitled to our illusions about ourselves, but the truth will out on Saturday and Sunday! Birding best bird weekend'
Think Arizona meets Costa Rica with a Mexican twist. These striking and inquisitive jays were perhaps the bird of the trip for me, and we took our time to soak in the experience of encountering these wonderful birds. There are many dusty side roads in this area, many of which offer productive birding.
The Arizona Cardinals may not be covering the team totem in glory, but the St. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. In fact, we lead the world in these ubiquitous red birds, a fact that undoubtedly chafes terrorists and freedom haters everywhere. Go Cardinals!
At the recent Swarovski Social Media Summit in Arizona, Nate proselytized passionately for the program that both manages your sightings and contributes them to science. His exhortations fell on deaf ears, but once he shared all of our Arizona lists with me, I was hooked! But Nate is an eBird fanatic.
Unlike some of us who started birding in midlife, Rogers brings to her new passion an adventurous history of a life lived outdoors–rock climbing (serious rock climbing, not in a gym), kayaking, ballooning, environmental stewardship, time in Alaska and Antarctica–which she uses to inform her new birding experiences.
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But why on earth would you want to go to some sewage ponds when there are so many ways to experience debauchery and dissolution in Las Vegas itself? Upon my arrival, at shortly before the 6 AM summer opening time, I ran into a fellow birder, a biology professor from Arizona name Robert Borker. Birds, of course! (
Alas, now that the Arizona Cardinals have fallen to the Carolina Panthers, we face the prospect of a Super Bowl without bird-themed football teams. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. So, do you prefer rambunctious horses or big cats better?
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Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. ” Southern Arizona , including visits to Ramsey Canyon Preserve and Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve. Geography is destiny. They include: Southern Florida , with stops at places such as J.
Less and Gilroy sort through the exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) factors thought to cause vagrancy and the scientific experiments that have sought to prove their significance with patience and plain language as well as charts and photographs. It’s not always easy reading. Don’t worry.
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A stunning painting of Red-faced Warblers, by artist and field ornithologist Narca Moore-Craig, shout out from the cover of the Arizona Breeding Bird Atlas (Univ. And, if you are part of an ongoing atlas project in your state, tell us about your experiences. Behind every distribution map, there must be a fascinating birding experience.
Hornbills are spectacular under any circumstances, but when a pair lands in a bush beside you at eye-level and begin mutual preening , it makes for a spectacular experience. It was easily one of the best birding experiences I’ve ever had, even impressing my nonbirder fiance. You can read more about his experience here.
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The more experience I had calling games, I got a bit wiser and had fewer ejections. John spent the last four years of his professional umpiring career at AAA and was invited to the MLB Arizona Fall League in 2003. You learn a lot about yourself in those situations. How are you going to handle the next pitch, or the next inning?
I have friends who talk nostalgically of birding trips with the Lane’s Guides to Southeast Arizona, or Southern California (there were eight guides in all, some co-written or updated by other birders, notably Henry Holt). In the back were simple bar graphs showing species seasonality.
.” They conclude that many non-vocalizing Empidonax flycatchers can be identified in the field, but only “when several field characters are used in combination–and after one has gained experience in looking at these characters on singing/calling and captive birds (i.e., known-identity).”**
And while we’re at it, what’s your experience with Mexican Ducks and Mallards in Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas? Do you prefer stability and certainty, or would you rather make changes to our lists early and often?
Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”
Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences. We listen in on conversations with people he meets along the way–ornithologists, local birders, drivers, and guides, and just plain local people that he runs into as he rummages through villages, ferries across channels, and explores city markets.
This is a sampling of the literary array Rogers has gathered from birders who write and writers who love birds. The essays range widely in place, bird, and voice, though the emphasis is on the North American.
Ask yourself this: if you were personally introduced to Joe Bloggs, Director of Marketing at Acme Corporation, who works from the company’s Arizona office, would you know enough about him to sell to him? That means going beyond superficial data like name, title, company name, geographic location and contact details. . It just isn’t possible.
Rick has also written the ABA Field Guide to Birds of Arizona and the ABA Field Guide to Birds of New Jersey and is a past beat writer for 10,000 Birds. He has an academic background in German and medieval studies, including a Ph.D. in German, and a Labrador Retriever named Gellert.
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