State wildlife officials scored a surprise hit earlier this year with their real barn owls of Whitewater Draw, so they’re already back with th…
- Bob Bowers
With Independence Day upon us, it seems appropriate to recognize and celebrate our area’s red, white and blue birds. Although we don’t have an…
- Tiffany Acosta Arizona Republic
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Baby quail season has begun in Arizona, bringing hundreds of orphaned chicks to the Tucson Wildlife Center for care and rehabilitation. Wildlife officials say warmer spring temperatures caused the birds to hatch earlier than usual this year, prompting an early start to one of the center’s busiest rescue seasons.
- 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.
- 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
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Last month, I wrote my article from an apartment in Sorrento, Italy, where we had considerable difficulty finding birds to photograph and writ…
- 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…
- Alexis Heichman Cronkite News
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The Arizona Game and Fish Department coordinates the nest watching program to collect data on the local bald eagle population and educate the public on how to protect the species.
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