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by Maya Rappaport
Last weekend, October 17-18, 2020, was Global Birding Weekend as well as an eBird Big Day. Friends staff, field crews, and other members of our community birded up a storm! Here’s a list of species seen around the Verde River Watershed last weekend – with 55 unique species in total!
Did you see any birds last weekend? Let us know, email Maya: MayaR@VerdeRiver.org
From Elaine’s Field Crews
Spring Creek
- Gila Woodpecker
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Northern Flicker
Mormon Crossing
- Common Merganser
- Phainopepla
- Great Horned Owl
- Canyon Wren
- Black Phoebe
- Belted Kingfisher
- Common Raven
Crescent Moon
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Northern Flicker
Maya and Nancy’s Morning Walk
Dead Horse Ranch State Park
- Mallard
- Mourning Dove
- Anna’s Hummingbird
- American Coot
- Belted Kingfisher
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker
- Northern Flicker
- Empidonax sp.
- Black Phoebe
- Say’s Phoebe
- Vermilion Flycatcher
- American Crow
- Common Raven
- Bridled Titmouse
- Verdin
- Marsh Wren
- Bewick’s Wren
- Western Bluebird
- American Robin
- House Finch
- Pine Siskin
- Lesser Goldfinch
- Chipping Sparrow
- Dark-eyed Junco
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Song Sparrow
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- Abert’s Towhee
- Spotted Towhee
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Lazuli Bunting
Maya’s Solo Observations
Bubbling Ponds
- Northern Shoveler
- American Wigeon
- Mallard
- Redhead
- American Coot
- Killdeer
- Great Blue Heron
- Common Black Hawk
- Black Phoebe
- Say’s Phoebe
- Cassin’s Kingbird
- Common Raven
- Marsh Wren
- Western Bluebird
- House Finch
- Lesser Goldfinch
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
Edge of the Mongollon Rim, SR 89A
- Steller’s Jay
- Common Raven
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Acorn Woodpecker
- Northern Flicker
Railroad Springs, Flagstaff AZ
- Steller’s Jay
- Common Raven
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Pygmy Nuthatch
- Mountain Chickadee
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Downy Woodpecker
- Western Bluebird
- Pine Siskin
- Lesser Goldfinch
- House Finch
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Acorn Woodpecker
- Northern Flicker
