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Tucson Audubon Society
“Good Old Birds” Birdathon Team Report
April 2006, by Peggy Wenrick

Below is the list of bird species we Good Old Birds tallied this year on our Birdathon. This year we reduced our driving time/cost/impact by staying closer to Tucson. We started our 24-hour count in mid afternoon on April 18, paused after owling for some shuteye, began again at 5:30am on April 19, and finished in mid-afternoon. In almost 17 hours we counted 109 species – and we didn’t even spot some of the usual suspects!

Thank you for supporting my effort to raise funds for Tucson Audubon Society’s important education and conservation programs. Your contribution is tax deductible. Please make your check payable to Tucson Audubon and mail it to Tucson Audubon Birdathon, 300 E. University Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85718. Also please note Wenrick BAT in the memo. Your pledge was for $50.00.

Thanks and good birding,
Peggy

Tucson Audubon Birdathon April 18-19, 2006
The Good Old Birds
(Peggy Wenrick, Julie Gordon, Kathleen Escalada, Cynthia Lindquist, Barbara Minker, Christine Hanson)

April 18, 2006
Snyder Hills
Mallard, blue-winged teal, ring-necked duck, ruddy duck, eared grebe, American coot, killdeer, least sandpiper, spotted sandpiper, Bell’s vireo, warbling vireo, northern rough-winged swallow, barn swallow, Audubon’s warbler, Townsend’s warbler, green towhee, lark sparrow, mourning dove, turkey vulture, Chihuahuan raven, cactus wren, black-tailed gnatcatcher, Lucy’s warbler, common yellowthroat, northern cardinal, red-winged blackbird, yellow-headed blackbird, great-tailed grackle, house sparrow 29

Santa Cruz River at Cortaro Road
White-faced ibis, great-horned owl (parent with three owlets), violet-green swallow, cliff swallow, tree swallow, yellow warbler, western tanager, lesser goldfinch, white-crowned sparrow, white-winged dove, verdin, blue grosbeak 11

Santa Cruz at Ina Road
Sharp-shinned hawk, black-necked stilt, lesser yellowlegs, rock pigeon, Abert’s towhee, rufous-winged sparrow, chipping sparrow 7

Catalina State Park
Elf owl, vermilion flycatcher, brown-crested flycatcher, ladder-backed woodpecker, western scrub jay, blue-gray gnatcatcher, canyon towhee 7

April 19, 2006
Wenrick yard
Inca dove, western screech owl 2

Sweetwater Wetlands and Roger Road
Cinnamon teal, least grebe, pied-billed grebe, black-crowned night heron, Harris’s hawk, sora, common moorhen, western sandpiper, black-chinned hummingbird, Anna’s hummingbird, western kingbird, Cassin’s vireo, house wren, marsh wren, northern mockingbird, Wilson’s warbler, song sparrow, Bullock’s oriole 18

Montezuma Wash
Barn owl, phainopepla, summer tanager 3

Molino Basin
Black-throated gray warbler, spotted towhee 2

Bear Canyon
Acorn woodpecker, greater pewee, least flycatcher, Hammond’s flycatcher, cordilleran flycatcher, Hutton’s vireo, Mexican jay, white-breasted nuthatch, ruby-crowned kinglet, hermit warbler, painted redstart, yellow-eyed junco 12

Bickel Cabin
Magnificent hummingbird, broad-tailed hummingbird, mountain chickadee, pygmy nuthatch, pine siskin 5

Bear Wallow
Red-breasted nuthatch 1

In transit
Gambel’s quail, Cooper’s hawk, redtail hawk, American kestrel, loggerhead shrike, common raven, curve-billed thrasher, European starling, Gila woodpecker, house finch 10

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