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Arivaca Lake- The last stop before Mexico

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For most avian migrants heading south towards Mexico, Central and South America, crossing thru the Arizona desert areas can provide very few water, food and resting areas. If they are passing thru Pima County, and the Tucson area, Arivaca Lake is the last stop for water before crossing the US/Mexico border.

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A Few of my Favorite Things

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There are so many wonderful birds in my corner of Mexico, for which I do not yet have good photographs. Even though some say good wildlife photography should not contain manmade elements, I like everything about this photo. Still, writing for 10,000 Birds has been an exercise in humility.

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Maine’s Great Black Hawk – Rescued!

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The Great Black Hawk – a species with a native range in Mexico to South America – had been spotted in this park for weeks, but not every day. I could write an entire essay on the foolish ways people approach nature and wildlife… but I won’t. Fish and Wildlife Service, to decide its fate.

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Recent Changes to the Costa Rica Bird List

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Seen Green Violetear in Mexico and Costa Rica? But, birds in eastern Mexico have even more blue and are now their own species so Lesson’s Motmot it is. Split from the Three-striped Warbler of South America, yet another species is added to the list of birds only found in the mountains of Costa Rica and Panama.

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Rufous Hummingbirds – The Accidental Tourists

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For native people, living in South America meant living with hummingbirds, and for Europeans, discovering South American meant discovering hummingbirds (and, tragically, exploiting South America meant exploiting hummingbirds, destroying hundreds of thousands for stuffed specimens and in futile attempts to keep them alive in captivity.)

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The Swallow-tailed Kites in Florida Are Now Heading South…

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Birders and raptor observers in south Florida and the Florida Keys report only small number of Swallow-tailed Kites during migration time. Similar observation have been made in Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico where up to 47,000 migrating Mississippi Kites are counted every season as they fly south. Project NG94-025.

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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

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But in the fall (with plumage as in the photo on the left, above) they take an entirely different, and heroic, route, first to Massachusetts and then, after a rest, south over the Atlantic Ocean. The blackpoll, “a bird with a body just a little larger than your thumb,” doesn’t stop until South America. Eighty hours of flying.

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