I love the idea that a computer program could help you identify your birds. The only problem is, of course, that it doesn’t work.
I got a note this morning about a new online program, and decided to give it a try. Like all the others out there, this one is basically a key, leading the [...]

Greater Roadrunners are some of the strangest birds around, and that’s really saying something in the land of Gambel’s Quail! While most birders’ mental image of a roadrunner is of a streak running down the road (duh), if you’re out early on a cool morning, this is the picture you’re likely to see: a great [...]

It was a perfect prairie homecoming today. Gary, Chris, Mark, and Molly discovered a Lapland Longspur yesterday on the Sonoita grasslands near Elgin, and there was no way I couldn’t look for that bird, a species with fewer than 20 records ever for southeast Arizona.
So Darlene and I bumped across the pastures on a dramatically [...]

To human eyes at least, a lot of duck behavior is, shall we say, not quite consensual. But it isn’t for lack of trying on the males’ part. This time of year, the boys are on their best behavior, dressed in their finest finery and pitching fevered woo at just about anything feathered that floats [...]

Tucson Audubon’s “urban guerilla” birding team was out at Reid Park this morning, enjoying the birding and, even more, enjoying showing other people the birds.

It’s always exciting to see how interested people really are when you stop and talk to them about birds. And we had some good ones to show them today: Harris’s Hawks, [...]