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• Southwest Wings Birding & Nature Festival 2013

  Ranked as one of the best annual birding festivals in the United States, the Southwest Wings Birding & Nature Festival will take place from...

• Santa Cruz Nature & Heritage Festival 2013

  This exciting wildlife festival includes two birding trips to Mexico and five trips in the Southern Arizona region where birders will have the opportunity to see a host of nesting migratory birds...

• Wings Over Willcox 2013

  Wings Over Willcox will be celebrating its 20th anniversary with this event set to take place on 16-20 January 2013...

• Tucson Bird & Wildlife Festival 2012

  This celebration of the unique biodiversity of southeastern Arizona offers the opportunity to discover and enjoy the Sky Islands and Sonoran Desert as an educational experience...

• Warblers – Specialty Workshop

  The Tucson Audubon Society presents a Warbler Specialty Workshop with Homer Hansen. Learn to distinguish fall warblers, with key structural characteristics...

• 2012 Southwest Wings Birding & Nature Festival

  Located at the foot of the Huachuca Mountains, Cochise College in Sierra Vista will be the venue for the 2012 Southwest Wings Birding and Nature Festival...

• Southwest Wings Festival

  The 20th Annual Birding and Nature Festival in Sierra Vista, or Southwest Wings, is both educational and fun, as participants learn about birds, reptiles, mammals and insects in southern ...

• Elegant Trogon (Trogon elegans)

  The Elegant Trogon or the Trogon elegans is very similar to the rarer Eared Trogon, the difference being the barred undersurface of the tail and the white breast band. This stunning bird is related to the Quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno), the bird of the Maya emperor-gods. The Trogon has a small habitat range, which barely reaches […]

• Gray Hawk (Asturina nitida)

  The Gray Hawk (Asturina nitida) is a small raptor that is 15 inches in length and has a wingspan of 35 inches. It is predominantly gray in color, with its throat and belly being white with barred gray coloring. Its upper tail coverts are white and it has very pale colored plumage under its wings. […]

• Montezuma Quail (Cyrtonyx montezumae)

  The Cyrtonyx montezumae, or as it is more commonly known, the Montezuma quail, is seven inches in length and is a small, shy, stocky bird with round wings. It also has a short, rounded brown tail and is basically a ground-dwelling bird. This bird is mainly a Mexican species and can be found along the […]