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Species Spotlight: Ornate Sunbird
3+ hour, 34+ min ago (110+ words) A rationale for the split can be found here " the paper emphasizes the importance of small islands as drivers of speciation. To add to the complexity, the Ornate Sunbird itself has seven subspecies, some of which look indeed quite distinctive....
Living in, on and around cactus
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (300+ words) This post is republished in our "From the Archives" series, featuring highlights of our vast back catalogue of more than 10,000 birding-related posts published over the last 15 years or so." The cactus are not the only things down here that are…...
South East Arizona’s Madera Canyon
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (318+ words) This post is republished in our "From the Archives" series, featuring highlights of our vast back catalogue of more than 10,000 birding-related posts published over the last 15 years or so." For today, I am going to try to cover just the…...
Pines to Oaks: Tracking Arizona’s Two Beloved Songbirds
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (365+ words) The Mountain Chickadee is a well-known resident of higher altitudes. Compact, it has a classic black cap, gray back, pale underside, and the bib of chickadees. Its most distinctive feature is the bold white eyebrow stripe above the eye" that…...
Bird Books for a Winter’s Day: The Raptor Edition
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (176+ words) Besides hummingbirds, the other bird group that I love and that fascinates me is the raptors. These fierce birds are always wonderful to see, going about their lives. Also, I add owls to this list. If you like raptors too,…...
An Interview with Kelly Isley, Author of “Amazing Hummingbirds You Can Find in Arizona”
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (535+ words) How did the idea for this book come about, and how long did it take you to bring it from idea to publication? I just looked at my own bookshelves and found 8 English-language non-fiction books on hummingbirds, and Amazon lists…...
Summer Birding around Tucson
7+ mon, 1+ day ago (925+ words) [Violet-crowned Hummingbird]When we stepped out of the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, a wave of stifling air hit us. The rental car registered the temperature at 115F. Why would anyone choose to visit southeast Arizona during the summer? Birds, of…...
Summer Birds, Winter Birds, and Residents
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (298+ words) From what I understand, a majority of our readers are from northern climes in the United States, Canada and Europe. For these readers, birds either belong to the migratory majority, seen only in the summer, or to a much smaller…...