Cannundrums

I consider it a privilege to have spent three days in southeastern Arizona with an amazing bird guide and to have become acquainted with som...

 Before my most recent trip to southeastern Arizona, I'd previously seen six trogons: (1) My first was the black-tailed trogon on Februa...

The biggest surprise of my trip was the sighting of a Mississippi kite in Patagonia, Arizona. My guide, Jake, lives in Patagonia and indicat...

The zone-tailed hawk is another species I'd never heard of prior to planning for southeastern Arizona. Birds of the World notes that it ...

I'd never heard of a bridled titmouse prior to going to southeastern Arizona, but once I saw a photo of one before going, it became a mu...

As I've expressed previously, I'm not very good at small birds. Even when I've got a good guide to find them for me, I have a ha...

I had a fondness for the plumbeous vireo before I saw it. I knew it was a bird I might see in southeastern Arizona. In March I saw a plumbeo...