Every spring in Tucson, the desert wakes up like it just had a strong cup of coffee. The palo verde trees bloom, the bougainvillea goes into o…
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- Henry Brean
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Wildlife officials tell people to leave baby animals alone, but that's a tall order for an Oro Valley bar and restaurant with great horned owls nesting on its patio.
Costa's hummingbird set free in Tucson after rescue, road trip from Nebraska- Henry Brean
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Heading south for the winter can be difficult and dangerous, especially when you’re tiny. Sometimes, hitching a ride is the safest way to go.
One of the closest premium birding locations to SaddleBrooke is Madera Canyon, which boasts lots of eBird hotspots, lots of birds and even mor…
- Henry Brean
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The elegant trogon has officially been renamed the coppery-tailed trogon, though experts insist it's the same rare red-and-green beauty prized by birders across Southern Arizona.
In the past few weeks, Mt. Lemmon Jays have been wandering off Mt. Lemmon and appearing in a wide number of nearby lower elevations. This phen…
- Bob Bowers
Last month, I wrote my article from an apartment in Sorrento, Italy, where we had considerable difficulty finding birds to photograph and writ…
- Diana Fuller Holmes, Oro Valley
In January 1994, I participated in my first Audubon Christmas Bird Count in the San Rafael Valley grasslands. With an old heavy pair of binocu…
- Henry Brean
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Desert animals generally don't need to be rescued from the heat, according to a reminder issued by wildlife experts after an uptick in calls about young hawks that were just fledging, not injured or abandoned.
- Bob Bowers
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We got a special valentine this year. On Friday, February 14, a female Costa’s Hummingbird began building a nest on the Mexican fish mobile th…