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Notable Sightings in Arizona
Check = Sighting confirmed by an eBird reviewer
  Name Date Location
  Crested Caracara 30 May
Check Marbled Godwit 30 May Willcox--Lake Cochise and Twin Lakes Golf Course
Check American Wigeon 30 May Willcox--Lake Cochise and Twin Lakes Golf Course
  Ferruginous Hawk 30 May
  Cassin's Finch 30 May Madera Canyon--Santa Rita Lodge
Check Lucifer Hummingbird 30 May Paradise--George Walker House
Check White-eared Hummingbird 30 May Paradise--George Walker House
Check Chihuahuan Raven 30 May Willow Springs Rd (Pinal Co.)
Check Least Tern 30 May Willcox--Lake Cochise and Twin Lakes Golf Course
Check White-rumped Sandpiper 30 May Willcox--Lake Cochise and Twin Lakes Golf Course
Check Bendire's Thrasher 30 May Willcox--Lake Cochise and Twin Lakes Golf Course
  Virginia Rail 30 May Sweetwater Wetlands
Check Common Ground Dove 30 May Madera Canyon--Madera Picnic Area
Check California Gull 30 May Willcox--Lake Cochise and Twin Lakes Golf Course
Check Rose-breasted Grosbeak 30 May
Check Yellow-rumped Warbler 30 May Arizona Birding Guides feeders--Visitors Welcome
Check MacGillivray's Warbler 30 May Arizona Birding Guides feeders--Visitors Welcome
Check Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's) 30 May Arizona Birding Guides feeders--Visitors Welcome
  Northern Harrier 30 May
Check Gray Catbird 30 May Battiste's Bird Garden
  Hermit Warbler 30 May Riparian Preserve at Gilbert Water Ranch
Check Ovenbird 30 May
Check Curve-billed Thrasher (curvirostre Group) 30 May
Check Rose-throated Becard 30 May stakeout Rose-throated Becard, Harshaw Creek Rd (2025)
Check Flame-colored Tanager 30 May Miller Canyon--Beatty's Guest Ranch
  Brewer's Sparrow 30 May
Check Berylline Hummingbird 30 May Madera Canyon--Santa Rita Lodge
  Tropical Kingbird 30 May Hassayampa River Preserve
Check Rufous-capped Warbler 30 May
Check Thick-billed Kingbird 30 May Box Canyon--old dam area
  Least Bittern 30 May
  Brown-headed Cowbird 30 May Mt. Lemmon--Incinerator Ridge
  Double-crested Cormorant 30 May Parker Canyon Lake
  Neotropic Cormorant 30 May Parker Canyon Lake
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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.