Cannundrums

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...

I first heard of the Arizona woodpecker when my son, Sam, visited southeastern Arizona. He specifically mentioned seeing them near the Santa...

One of the marvelous things about hiring a birding guide is that they get paid to know things about rare and unusual birds, such as where th...

My guide, Jake Thompson, took me into the fairly rugged and sparsely vegetated Tumacacori Mountains, up into Rock Corral Canyon, over some r...