The Experience of Birding
January 9, 2010 Snow Goose Ross’s Goose Canada Goose Gadwall American Wigeon Mallard Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Ring-necked Duck Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Scaled Quail Gambel’s Quail Pied-billed Grebe Great Blue Heron Great Egret Northern Harrier Cooper’s Hawk Harris’s Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Ferruginous Hawk American Kestrel Prairie Falcon Sora Common Moorhen American Coot Sandhill …
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American Wigeon Mallard Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Lesser Scaup Surf Scoter Bufflehead Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Gambel’s Quail Pacific Loon Common Loon Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark’s Grebe Blue-footed Booby Brown Booby Brown Pelican Double-crested Cormorant Magnificent Frigatebird Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Cattle Egret Green …
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Marion and I spent this gloriously summer-like St. David’s Day along the lower Santa Cruz. It’s not winter down there any more, and the great raptor shows of the cold season are done with; but we still tallied a fine adult Peregrine Falcon, several Harris’s Hawks, four Northern Harriers (including two dazzling silver males), and …
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Species Observed, with notes on status from Russell and Monson, The Birds of Sonora (1998) Greater White-fronted Goose: 9 at Rodriguez Reservoir; Russell lists only 3 previous records from the interior of Sonora. Snow Goose: ca. 200 at Rodriguez Reservoir, among them at least 2 Blue Geese. Ross’s Goose: at least 2 at Rodriguez Reservoir; …
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A truly outstanding morning on the Santa Cruz Flats with the participants in the Aimophila Adventures Raptor Clinic gave us great looks in life at most of the species we had examined yesterday in skin. We knew it would be a good morning when the first bird in the parking lot where we met was …
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