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Big Sit 2012: Cape Havasu
This weekend, everyone is talking about the Big Sit, a national birding event hosted by Birdwatcher’s Digest, which falls every year on the second Sunday in October. (This year, they added the preceding Saturday as a possible count day.) This … Continue reading
Posted in Big Sit, Events, Havasu NWR, Lake Havasu, LCRV, Mohave County, Trip reports, Vagrants
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The Red-breasted Nuthatch Irruption Reaches the LCRV
Lots of folks around the continent have realized by now that it is an irruption year for Red-breasted Nuthatches. With failed seed crops across much of their range, they are showing up everywhere they aren’t supposed to be. Observers are … Continue reading
Posted in Irruptions, La Paz County, LCRV, Mohave County, Vagrants
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White Ibis in Baker, CA
The summer doldrums are a thing of the past here in the desert, and I’m doing my best to forget them until next year. Temperatures have been kindly staying below 110, monsoons have been passing through on a weekly basis, … Continue reading
Posted in High desert, Trip reports, Vagrants
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New AOU Checklist Supplement
It was about one year ago when the American Ornithologists’ Union published their last supplement to the Check-List of North American Birds. If you need a refresher, you can read about that supplement here. The AOU has just released this … Continue reading
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Early Fall Birding
It feels a little weird to call it “fall birding” on July 1st, but with temperatures spiking over 115 recently*, it is much more pleasant to think of fall than summer. Besides, as I have written before, something is always … Continue reading
Important Bird Areas in eBird
If you visit ebird.org today, you may notice a new article on Important Bird Areas (IBAs) now being a part of eBird’s output tools. Is it really that big a deal? What does this mean for birding in western Arizona? … Continue reading
Spring Migration Birding
With temperatures creeping above 100 in the past week, those of us along the river here were happy to hear that a front was coming through, bringing possible rain and highs in the 80s. Of course, there is always a … Continue reading
Have You Seen BirdCast?
At first I started using eBird because I liked the idea of my everyday sightings being useful for science. I quickly grew to love how simply it organized all my sightings and lists. Eventually, I learned how to use the … Continue reading
Posted in eBird, Migration, News
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A Spectacle of Swallows
The field season has kicked off once again, and I spent the past ten days with the 2012 Great Basin Bird Observatory (GBBO) crew around Blythe and Yuma (Cibola and Imperial NWRs). The beginning of the field season is the … Continue reading
Posted in LCRV, Migration, Yuma County
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Nutting’s Flycatcher
By now, the Bill Williams Nutting’s Flycatcher is anything but news. In the first week or two after its discovery, it was fun to see the bird mentioned in blog posts, Facebook feeds, and websites. Now, more than five weeks … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Williams, La Paz County, LCRV, Mohave County, Vagrants
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