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"Hummerfest" in SE AZ August, 2007

This trip was run at the height of the hummingbird migration. Sites visited included:  Mt. Lemmon, Saguaro National Park, California Gulch, Madera Canyon, Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve, Patagonia State Park, Ramsey and Miller Canyons, San Pedro River, the Chiricahua Mountains/Rustler Park area, and the Cave Creek/Portal area.  

SE Arizona is known for its resident, migrants, and Mexican vagrant birds; awesome butterflies; magnificent “sky islands”; and its eight biomes:  desert scrub (Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts), grassland, interior chaparral, evergreen woodland (Juniper/Pinyon Pine-Oak), conifer forest (Engelmann Spruce/Douglas Fir), riparian woodland, wetlands and tundra.  The sites we visited represent the best SE Arizona has to offer.  For example, Cave Creek Canyon is possibly the most bio-diverse area in North American.

The trip proved to be so popular that it was run in two back-to-back groups, one from 6–12 August and one from 13–19 August.

Photo galleries of the trip:

Combined Bird list:

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Mallard (Mexican Duck)
Blue-winged Teal
Redhead
Common Goldeneye
Ruddy Duck
Scaled Quail
Gambel's Quail
Montezuma Quail
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White-faced Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Cooper's Hawk
Harris's Hawk
Gray Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Zone-tailed Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Golden Eagle
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
Sora
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Lesser Yellowlegs
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Sanderling
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Common Tern
Rock Pigeon
Band-tailed Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Greater Roadrunner
Whiskered Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl
Elf Owl
Burrowing Owl
Lesser Nighthawk
Common Nighthawk
White-throated Swift
Broad-billed Hummingbird
White-eared Hummingbird

 Berylline Hummingbird
Violet-crowned Hummingbird
Blue-throated Hummingbird
Magnificent Hummingbird
Lucifer Hummingbird
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Anna's Hummingbird
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Elegant Trogon
Acorn Woodpecker
Gila Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Arizona Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Greater Pewee
Western Wood-Pewee
Gray Flycatcher
Dusky Flycatcher
Buff-breasted Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Say's Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher
Dusky-capped Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Brown-crested Flycatcher
Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
Tropical Kingbird
Cassin's Kingbird
Thick-billed Kingbird
Western Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Bell's Vireo
Plumbeous Vireo
Hutton's Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
Mexican Jay
Chihuahuan Raven
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Purple Martin
Violet-green Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Mountain Chickadee
Mexican Chickadee
Bridled Titmouse
Verdin
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Pygmy Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Cactus Wren
Rock Wren
Canyon Wren
Bewick's Wren
House Wren
 Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Bendire's Thrasher
Curve-billed Thrasher
Crissal Thrasher
European Starling
Phainopepla
Olive Warbler
Virginia's Warbler
Lucy's Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Hermit Warbler
Grace's Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Red-faced Warbler
Painted Redstart
Yellow-breasted Chat
Hepatic Tanager
Summer Tanager
Western Tanager
Green-tailed Towhee
Spotted Towhee
Canyon Towhee
Abert's Towhee
Rufous-winged Sparrow
Cassin's Sparrow
Botteri's Sparrow
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Five-striped Sparrow (Heard Only)
Chipping Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow
Lark Bunting
Grasshopper Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Yellow-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Black-headed Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting
Varied Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Hooded Oriole
Bullock's Oriole
Scott's Oriole
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
Lawrence's Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Key:
Black—seen by both groups
Red—seen only by group 1
Blue—seen only by group 2
Green—seen only on scout trip