Red-faced Warbler, Cardellina rubrifrons
The Red-faced Warbler, Cardellina rubrifrons, is one of the most spectacular looking members of the new world warblers. They breed in mountain forests and range up to Arizona and New Mexico.
Red-faced Warbler, Cardellina rubrifrons
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Masked Bobwhite, Colinus virginianus ridgwayi, male
The Northern Bobwhite has a wonderful subspecies called the Masked Bobwhite, Colinus virginianus ridgwayi. It has been extinct or close to it in the wild primarily caused by loss of breeding habitat. A great deal of work has been done to try to re-establish wild populations using birds raised in captivity. One of the target locations for this has been the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge (BANWR) in southern Arizona. There has been no conclusive success to this point.
Masked Bobwhite, Colinus virginianus ridgwayi,female
These pictures are of captive birds kept in The Desert Museum aviary.
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“One real world is enough.” – George Santayana
This is a place we are all familiar with, wagon trains winding their way though the buttes, and John Wayne leading the way. Monument Valley has been the scene of many movies, it is a vast landscape begging to be filmed or photographed.
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“To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
An eternity in an hour..”
- William Blake
“We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.”
- John Wesley Powell
Although we only had a few hours to visit this great spectacle, it was still worthwhile. I had not been there for many years, and the crowds had become horrendous, the downside of the experience.
“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most” – John Ruskin
Antelope Canyon, outside of Page, Arizona, is the most famous slot canyon in the southwest. It is a mecca for photographers. Situated on Navajo land, it can only be visited by permit only, generally this means taking an established tour out of Page.
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“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.”
- Norman Fitzroy Maclean
Situated in Arizona and Utah, the Glen Canyon has been carved out of the Vermillion Cliffs by the Colorado River. The image is of Horseshoe bend which can be reached off Highway 89, about 6 km. south of Page. It is about a kilometer walk from the parking lot to the overlook.
Just south of Tucson in the Santa Rita Mountains, is Madera Canyon, one of the finest birding destinations in Arizona and the U.S. The entrance lies off of Exit 63 on Highway 19 going south from Tucson.The grasslands of the lowlands gives way to Pine-Oak Woodland as the land rises. The grasslands may have Greater Roadrunner , Red-tailed Hawk , Say’s Phoebe , Gambel’s Quail , Curve-billed Thrasher , Northern Raven , Verdin , and Cactus Wren . (more…)
Patagonia and the Nogales area are close to the Mexican border and they account for more strays and rare birds than any other area of Arizona.
If you are coming from the Huachua mountain area south on Highway 82 towards Nogales, you will come to the town of Patagonia where the Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve is situated. (more…)
The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which straddles part of the United States-Mexico border and covers large parts of the U.S. states of Arizona and California, and the Mexican state of Sonora.
It is one of the largest and hottest deserts in North America with an area of 120,000 square miles (311,000 sq. km.). (more…)
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