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| WINTER | Crisp days and clear blue skies, is the season for
sparrows, longspurs, finches, raptors, empids, and ducks
SPECIALTIES, many of which occur annually, include: Mountain Plover,
Ruddy Ground-dove, Arizona Woodpecker, Hammond's & Dusky Flycatchers,
Sprague's Pipit, Baird's Sparrow, McCown's & Chestnut-collared Longspurs.
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| SPRING | Perfect temperatures and birds seem to be everywhere.
Migrant hummingbirds, warblers, vireos, flycatchers, orioles, & tanagers.
SPECIALTIES: Black-bellied Whistling-duck, Gray & Zone-tailed hawks,
Whiskered Screech-owl, Magnificent Hummingbird, Pacific-slope Flycatcher,
Crissal Thrasher, Lucy's Warbler, Abert's Towhee. |
| SUMMER | Resident breeders, hummers, Mexican straysÉ cool, moist
mornings, butterflies 'til lunch, afternoon thunderstorms, owls at dusk.
SPECIALTIES: Violet-crowned Hummingbird, Elegant Trogon, N.
Beardless-tyrannulet, Tropical & Thick-billed Kingbirds, Rose-throated Becard,
Red-faced & Rufous-capped Warblers, Rufous-crowned, Botteri's, &
Five-striped Sparrows, Varied Bunting.
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| FALL | Migrant songbirds, raptors, & shorebirds, eastern straysÉ learn
immature and ÒwinterÓ plumages in the cooling days and drying air of
autumn.
SPECIALTIES: Montezuma Quail, Lucifer Hummingbird, Olive-sided & Gray
Flycatchers, Chihuahuan Raven, Mexican Chickadee, Olive, Townsend's, &
Hermit Warblers, Yellow-eyed Junco. |
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