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Snow Geese along the Goose Loop auto tour at Cibola NWR, La Paz County, Arizona. There are four color forms of Snow Goose in this photo: white adult, blue morph adult, white juvenile and dark juvenile. December 27, 2023.
Viewed: 84 times.
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| Black-bellied Whistling-Duck at the Amado WTP, Amado, Pima County, Arizona. March 28, 2024.
Viewed: 39 times.
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| Mexican Ducks taking off of a pond in the Green Valley WRF, Green Valley, Arizona. February 16, 2024.
Viewed: 42 times.
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| Blue-winged Teal at Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona. January 18, 2024.
Viewed: 71 times.
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| Hooded Merganser at Agua Caliente Park in Tucson, Arizona. February 17, 2024.
Viewed: 65 times.
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| Male Ruddy Duck decked out in breeding plumage at Christopher Columbus Park, Tucson, Arizona. March 6, 2024.
Viewed: 44 times.
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| Gambel's Quail on a bunny ears cactus at the Highlands Mobile Home Park in Oro Valley, Arizona. January 7, 2024.
Viewed: 83 times.
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| Two male Gambel's Quail along S. Night Sky St., Marana, Arizona. March 10, 2024.
Viewed: 45 times.
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| Eared Grebe at El Rio Open Space Preserve, Manara, Arizona. February 10, 2024.
Viewed: 63 times.
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Clark's Grebe in winter plumage with an all-black bill in Lake Havasu north of Lake Havasu City, Arizona. December 25, 2023.
Viewed: 314 times.
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| Inca Dove in Tanque Verde Creek (or wash) west off Wentworth Road, Tucson, Arizona. March 2, 2024.
Viewed: 52 times.
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| Ruddy Ground-Dove at Paton Center for Hummingbirds in Patagonia, Arizona. January 15, 2024.
Viewed: 77 times.
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| Greater Roadrunner at Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona. January 18, 2024.
Viewed: 69 times.
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| Greater Roadrunner on a picnic table near the dam in Sabino Canyon Recreation Area, Tucson, Arizona. January 30, 2024.
Viewed: 70 times.
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| The Greater Roadrunner had a broken upper mandible. It must be doing okay. I had been told about it a week earlier, so it evidently has been able to feed itself. January 30, 2024.
Viewed: 68 times.
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| Rivoli's Hummingbird at Santa Rita Lodge in Madera Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. March 25, 2024.
Viewed: 45 times.
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| Anna's Hummingbird sitting on its nest in Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona. February 29, 2024.
Viewed: 60 times.
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| Anna's Hummingbird feeding a young one in its nest at Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona. March 26, 2024.
Viewed: 42 times.
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A second Anna's Hummingbird sitting on its nest in Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona. February 29, 2024. In 46 years of birding prior to today, I had seen only one hummingbird sitting on a nest. Today I saw two!
Viewed: 53 times.
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| Anna's Hummingbird at a house in the Highlands Mobile Home Park in Oro Valley, Arizona. March 15, 2024.
Viewed: 44 times.
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| Costa's Hummingbird sitting on eggs in its nest in an oriander bush in Connie Rose's yard, Oro Valley, Arizona. March 6, 2024.
Viewed: 45 times.
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| Costa's Hummingbird at a house in the Highlands Manufactured Housing Park, Oro Valley, Arizona. March 11, 2024.
Viewed: 51 times.
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| Juvenile male Broad-tailed Hummingbird molting into adult plumage at the Santa Rita Lodge in Madera County, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. November 17, 2023.
Viewed: 119 times.
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| Broad-billed Hummingbird at the Paton Center for Hummingbirds in Patagonia, Arizona. March 20, 2024.
Viewed: 48 times.
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| Berylline Hummingbird perched on a branch in a tree at Madera Kubo Lodge in Madera Canyon, Santa Rosa County, Arizona. March 28, 2024.
Viewed: 34 times.
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| Berylline Hummingbird visiting a feeder at Madera Kubo Lodge in Madera Canyon, Santa Rosa County, Arizona. March 28, 2024.
Viewed: 37 times.
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| Sora at Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona. February 26, 2024.
Viewed: 55 times.
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Sora at Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona. March 11, 2024.
Viewed: 41 times.
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| Another shot of the Sora at Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona. March 11, 2024.
Viewed: 46 times.
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| Melanistic Sandhill Crane at Lake Willcox in Willcox, Arizona. November 18, 2023.
Viewed: 534 times.
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| Adult-plumaged Sandhill Crane at Cochise Lake in Willcox, Arizona. December 4, 2023.
Viewed: 90 times.
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| American Coot at Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona. Check out that guy's feet! February 29, 2024.
Viewed: 56 times.
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| Common Gallinule at Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona. December 23, 2023.
Viewed: 73 times.
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| Little Gull on Cochise Lake in Willcox, Arizona. This is the first sighting of Little Gull in Arizona. February 7, 2024.
Viewed: 70 times.
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| Little Gull in flight over Cochise Lake in Willcox, Arizona. February 7, 2024.
Viewed: 67 times.
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| California Gull on Cochise Lake in Willcox, Arizona. February 7, 2024.
Viewed: 63 times.
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Adult Herring Gull (below) and first winter Herring Gull at the Benson WTP in Benson, Arizona. February 7, 2024. It is rare to have a three-gull day in Southeast Arizona.
Viewed: 72 times.
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| Lesser Black-backed Gull off the delta at the headquarters of the Bill Williams River NWR, La Paz County, Arizona. December 24, 2023.
Viewed: 105 times.
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| Neotropic Cormorant in the large pond at Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona. I didn't know there were fish in that pond. January 2, 2024.
Viewed: 77 times.
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| Neotropic Cormorant with a tasty lunch at Agua Caliente Park in Tucson, Arizona. February 17, 2024.
Viewed: 63 times.
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| Snowy Egret in the Santa Cruz River south of Ina Road in Tucson, Arizona. January 21, 2024.
Viewed: 72 times.
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| Green Heron at Agua Caliente Park in Tucson, Arizona. February 17, 2024.
Viewed: 61 times.
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| Great Blue Heron landing just after a Great Egret took off at the Agua Nueva Park pond at the end of the road west of Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona. January 5, 2024.
Viewed: 78 times.
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| White-faced Ibis flying over Ron Morriss Park south of Tubac, Arizona. Seen during the Tubac Nature Center Hawk Watch. March 16, 2024.
Viewed: 43 times.
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| White-faced Ibis, one of thirty, in an alfalfa field near the intersection of Marana Road and Luckett Road near Marana, Arizona. March 28, 2024.
Viewed: 36 times.
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This Sharp-shinned Hawk was being mobbed by ten Mexican Jays in Florida Canyon, Pima County, Arizona. It turned upside down in an evasive action. December 15, 2023.
Viewed: 87 times.
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| Common Black Hawk soaring over Ron Morriss Park south of Tubac, Arizona. Seen during the Tubac Nature Center Hawk Watch. March 16, 2024.
Viewed: 47 times.
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| Common Black Hawk in a tree near the bird feeders that are at the start of the birding trail in Patagonia State Park, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. March 20, 2024.
Viewed: 45 times.
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| Common Black Hawk seen soaring over Ron Morriss Park near Tubac, Arizona. March 28. 2024.
Viewed: 38 times.
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| Harris's Hawk on one of the electrical towers in Christopher Columbus Park, Tucson, Arizona. January 13, 2024.
Viewed: 72 times.
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| Short-tailed Hawk soaring over Ron Morriss Park south of Tubac, Arizona, during the Tubac Nature Center Hawk Watch. March 7, 2024.
Viewed: 51 times.
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| Zone-tailed Hawk at the Riparian Preserve at Gilbert Water Ranch, Gilbert, Arizona. January 10, 2024. It was a good distance away when I took these two photos of it.
Viewed: 80 times.
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| Another shot of the Zone-tailed Hawk at the Riparian Preserve at Gilbert Water Ranch, Gilbert, Arizona. January 10, 2024.
Viewed: 75 times.
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| Dark morph Red-tailed Hawk soaring over Sunland Gin Road, Pinal County, Arizona. March 10, 2024.
Viewed: 47 times.
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Ferruginous Hawk along the road on the east side of the Twin Lakes Golf Course in Willcox, Arizona. December 4, 2023.
Viewed: 84 times.
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| A second shot of the Ferruginous Hawk along the road on the east side of the Twin Lakes Golf Course in Willcox, Arizona. December 4, 2023.
Viewed: 86 times.
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| Ferruginous Hawk along Greene Reservoir Road in the Santa Cruz Flats, Pinal County, Arizona. January 4, 2024.
Viewed: 77 times.
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| Another shot of the Ferruginous Hawk along Greene Reservoir Road in the Santa Cruz Flats, Pinal County, Arizona. January 4, 2024.
Viewed: 76 times.
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| Western Screech-Owl at its roost in an old mesquite tree in the Sabino Canyon Recreation Area near the dam, Tucson, Arizona. January 25, 2024.
Viewed: 80 times.
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| Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl near TJ Ranch Road, Pima County, Arizona. March 23, 2024.
Viewed: 46 times.
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| Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl ashowing one of its false eye spots on the back of its head near TJ Ranch Road, Pima County, Arizona. March 23, 2024.
Viewed: 50 times.
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| Burrowing Owls on Hardin Road, Marana, Arizona. Janaury 9, 2024.
Viewed: 77 times.
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| Burrowing Owl beside its winter roosting site (a piece of drain pipe) on the Evergreen Turf Sod Farm along Tweedy Road in Pinal County, Arizona. January 9, 2024.
Viewed: 73 times.
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Adult Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at Catalina State Park, Oro Valley, Arizona. January 1, 2024.
Viewed: 78 times.
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| Immature Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at Catalina State Park, Oro Valley, Arizona. January 1, 2024.
Viewed: 77 times.
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| Hybrid Yellow-bellied X Red-naped Sapsucker at Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona. January 28, 2024.It has more extensive black and white mottling on it's back, a red patch on the nape, and the black border around the red throat is thinner than it would be on a pure Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Plus, an eBird reviewer said it is a hybrid.
Viewed: 70 times.
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| Red-naped Sapsucker at Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona. January 28, 2024.
Viewed: 70 times.
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| Hairy Woodpecker in the burn along the road uphill from the parking lot near the ski area on Mt. Lemmon, Pima County, Arizona. February 22, 2024.
Viewed: 47 times.
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| Arizona Woodpecker in Madera Canyon, Pima County, Arizona. February 16, 2024.
Viewed: 58 times.
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| Gilded Flicker at Honey Bee Canyon Park, Oro Valley, AZ. January 22, 2024.
Viewed: 71 times.
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| Gilded Flicker on a saguaro cactus in Honey Bee Canyon Park, Oro Valley, Arizona. January 22, 2024.
Viewed: 72 times.
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| Rosy-faced Lovebird at Freestone Park in Gilbert, Arizona. December 19, 2023.
Viewed: 80 times.
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Another Rosy-faced Lovebird at Freestone Park in Gilbert, Arizona. December 19, 2023.
Viewed: 85 times.
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| American Kestrel on a saguaro cactus in Honey Bee Canyon Park, Oro Valley, Arizona. January 22, 2024.
Viewed: 68 times.
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| Merlin at Honey Bee Canyon Park, Oro Valley, AZ. January 22, 2024.
Viewed: 68 times.
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| Peregrine Falcon near the Western Sod Farm in Pinal County, Arizona. We wondered what prey this falcon was subsisting on is this nearly desolate area. January 9, 2024.
Viewed: 74 times.
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| Prairie Falcon on the next power pole up the road from the Peregrine Falcon (previous photo) near the Western Sod Farm in Pinal County, Arizona. January 9, 2024.
Viewed: 75 times.
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| Crested Caracara near Sunland Gin Road, Eloy, Arizona. January 9, 2024.
Viewed: 76 times.
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| Greater Pewee in Reid Park, Tucson, Arizona. March 6, 2024.
Viewed: 48 times.
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| Immature Vermilion Flycatcher at Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona. December 23, 2023.
Viewed: 88 times.
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| Gray Flycatcher at Catalina State Park, Oro Valley, Arizona. January 13, 2024.
Viewed: 71 times.
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