Latest Rarities

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Notable Sightings in Arizona
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  Name Date Location
  Cassin's Kingbird 08 Dec Reid Park
  Black Scoter 08 Dec Randolph GC/Hardesty Building
  Greater White-fronted Goose 08 Dec
  Summer Tanager 08 Dec Tanque Verde Wash--Tanque Verde Loop Rd.
  Magnolia Warbler 08 Dec Tanque Verde Wash--Wentworth Rd.
  Magnolia Warbler 08 Dec Tanque Verde Wash--Wentworth Rd.
Check Bullock's Oriole 08 Dec Patagonia--Patons' yard
  Northern Parula 08 Dec Tanque Verde Wash--Tanque Verde Loop Rd.
  Northern Parula 08 Dec Tanque Verde Wash--Tanque Verde Loop Rd.
  Magnolia Warbler 08 Dec Tanque Verde Wash--Wentworth Rd.
  Magnolia Warbler 08 Dec Tanque Verde Wash--Wentworth Rd.
Check Sagebrush Sparrow 08 Dec
  Gray Vireo 08 Dec
  Canada Goose 08 Dec Kennedy Park
  California Gull 08 Dec Kennedy Park
  Osprey 08 Dec Kennedy Park
  Louisiana Waterthrush 08 Dec Sabino Dam and downstream riparian
  Bank Swallow 08 Dec Kennedy Park
  Osprey 08 Dec Kennedy Park
  Sandhill Crane 08 Dec Arlington WA
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Arizona Alerts

Nov 24, 2013
[AZNMbirds] SE AZ: Tucsons Lakeside Gulls and Tern at sunset

I checked at 5:05 pm. The two Bonaparte Gulls and the Forester Tern were in the water about 50 feet south of the dam. A raft of fishermen got close to them and all three flew up. Last I saw the tern...
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Nov 24, 2013
[AZNMbirds] Reid Park BLACK SCOTER AND LEWIS WOODPECKER

Both were present this morning. The Black Scoter was resting on the water when I arrived at 8:30. By around 9:30, she was more active, preening and moving around on the surface and then began diving...
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Nov 07, 2013
[AZNMbirds] SEAZ Madera Canyon EARED QUETZAL 11/7/2013

Thanks to Andrew for posting, it took a while to get a message out of the upper canyon. I was hunting quetzal, however I thought it would be at the cluster of fruiting Madrone trees 200 yard yard down...
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Featured Rarity

Plain-capped Starthroat, Patagonia: August 12, 2009. Courtesy Chris West.Thank you to Chris West for this fine photograph of the Plain-capped Starthroat at the Spirit Tree Inn in Patagonia.