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Meetup Tucson Meet Your Birds Tucson Audubon Meet Your Mascot THE QUARTERLY NEWS MAGAZINE OF TUCSON AUDUBON SOCIETY | TUCSONAUDUBON.ORG VermFLYCATCHERilion January–March 2013 | Volume 58, Number 1 Meetup Tucson Meet Your Birds Tucson Audubon Meet Your Mascot Adventures Along the Tanque Verde Wash What’s in a Name? Northern Mockingbird Features THE QUART ERLY NEWS MAGAZIN E OF TUCSON A UDUBON S OCIET Y | TUCSON AUDUBON .ORG 10 What’s in a Name: Northern Mockingbird VermilionFLYCATCHER 11 Adventures Along the January–March 2013 | Volume 58, Number 1 Tanque Verde Wash Tucson Audubon Society is dedicated to improving 10 Tucson Audubon, Meet Your Mascot the quality of the environment by providing education, conservation, and recreation programs, environmental 13 Tucson Meet Your Birds leadership, and information. Tucson Audubon is a non-profit volunteer organization of people with a Departments common interest in birding and natural history. Tucson Audubon maintains offices, a library, and nature 3 Commentary Meetup Tucson Meet shops in Tucson, the proceeds of which benefit all of 4 Events and Classes Your Birds its programs. Tucson Audubon 5 Events Calendar Meet Your Mascot Tucson Audubon Society 300 E. University Blvd. #120, Tucson, AZ 85705 6 Living With Nature Lecture Series 629-0510 (voice) or 623-3476 (fax) 7 News Roundup All phone numbers are area code 520 unless otherwise stated. Adventures Along the 17 Conservation and Education News Tanque Verde Wash www.tucsonaudubon.org what’s in a Name? Northern Mockingbird Board Officers & Directors 21 Field Trips President Cynthia Pruett 24 Birding Travel from our Business Partners Vice President Sandy Elers FRONT COVER: Gila Woodpecker by Elaine R. Wilson. Secretary Ruth Russell 25 Birds & Business Alliance Treasurer Richard Carlson 25 Classified Ads Her bird, wildlife and natural landscape photography can Directors at Large Matt Bailey, Ardeth Barnhart, Gavin be viewed at www.naturespicsonline.com. Bieber, Jennie Duberstein, Dave Dunford, Debra Finch, 26 Nature Shops Bob Hernbrode, Linda Greene, John Kennedy, Linda Stitzer, To have your photograph considered for use in the Claire Zucker Vermilion Flycatcher, please contact Matt Griffiths at Board Committees Conservation Chair Chris McVie, [email protected]. Development Sandy Elers, Education Jennie Duberstein, Finance Richard Carlson, Outreach Vacant, Nominating Linda Greene, Personnel Cynthia Pruett Programs & Activities Field Trips Matt Griffiths Library 629-0510 To Arrive Where We Started and Know Membership Meetings Jean Barchman 629-0510 Rare Bird Alert Andrew Core | Report Rare Birds 629-0510 the Place for the First Time Staff (unless otherwise stated, dial 629-0510 plus extension) Executive Director Paul Green ext 7001 Rob Fergus Accountant Michelle Bourgeois ext 7003 Finance ext 7014 For geographers, place is more than mere a great connection to Utah’s vibrant communities Membership Coordinator Jean Barchman ext 7002 location—it includes all the features, elements, and and landscapes teaming with life. To the extent that Development Manager Erin Olmstead ext 7009 Volunteer and Development Coordinator relationships that make each location unique. Birds I knew the birds, landscapes, and their connection Kara Kaczmarzyk ext 7011 are a vital component of each place. In fact, you to people, I knew the place. Environmental Education Coordinator Bété Pfister ext 7012 can’t really know a place without knowing its birds. I’ve since traveled to all 50 U.S. states and IBA Conservation Biologist Jennie MacFarland ext 7004 Habitats Program Manager Kendall Kroesen ext 7006 I first heard that bit of wisdom from nature writer many foreign countries and enjoyed getting to Restoration Manager Jonathan Horst 971-6238 Terry Tempest Williams when I was a restless know thousands of birds and innumerable local Field Supervisor Rodd Lancaster 256-6909 places. I treasure them all, starting with the birds Communications / Habitat Restoration undergraduate student in Utah. I had been a birder Matthew Griffiths 971-7924 for more than ten years, but I hadn’t been birding in my backyard. No matter how well you know Operations and Retail Manager Sara Pike ext 7008 for a long time. I suddenly came alive and knew your bird neighbors, there is always more to learn Operations and Retail Coordinator Kelly DiGiacomo ext 7007 how to break out of my mid-semester malaise—I and enjoy. Tucson Audubon Nature Shops 300 E University Blvd #120 ext 7015 ditched school the next day and drove out across The birds can be your teachers. As you sit in 623-3476 fax / 629-0510 Shop Manager a snow-covered desert in search of a Northern your yard closely watch the birds there—what are Hours: 10 AM–4 PM, Monday–Saturday Shrike! For the next year and they doing and what are they teaching you about Agua Caliente Park, 12325 E Roger Rd 760-7881 Hours: JANUARY–MARCH Wednesday 10 AM–1 PM, a half I explored all the this place? As you explore local parks, preserves, Thursday 9 AM–2:30 PM, Friday–Saturday, 10 AM–2:30 PM local haunts in search or even shopping areas, what birds are present of birds, and by the and what are they doing? The more you get to Vermilion Flycatcher is published quarterly. For address time I left school, I felt know Tucson’s birds, the better connected you will changes or subscription problems call 629-0510, or write be to Tucson as a place—a vibrant community and to Membership Coordinator, Tucson Audubon, 300 E. VF University Blvd, #120, Tucson, AZ 85705. Submissions are landscape teaming with life. Enjoy! due the 1st of the month, two months before the date of the Dr. Rob Fergus is an avid birder, urban ecologist, issue. Please send submissions as Microsoft Word or RTF documents, or plain text files, to Matt Griffiths at mgriffiths@ and bird conservationist who also blogs at tucsonaudubon.org. urbanbirdscapes.com Coordinator Matt Griffiths 971-7924 and birdchaser.blogspot.com. Proofreaders Robert Merideth, Tucson Audubon staff, and volunteers Design / Layout Eng-Li Green © 2013 Tucson Audubon Society PYRRHULOXIA, DORIS EVANS 2 Tucson Audubon Vermilion Flycatcher JANUARY–MARCH 2013 Visit tucsonaudubon.org for updates and more. COMMENTARY PAUL GREEN | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The Lores of Nature Bird Lore was first published in January In 2013 we’ll get the chance to 1899 as an illustrated bimonthly magazine celebrate both kinds of lore since folklorist devoted to the study and protection of Maribel Alvarez of Tucson Meet Yourself birds. It was the official organ of the has invited all of us in Tucson to expand growing National Association of Audubon our definition of neighbors to include our us a shared sense of place if we take the Societies. Bird Lore was set up not bird neighbors. time to notice them. Staff have chosen as a commercial enterprise, but as a Tucson Meet Yourself is an annual Cooper’s Hawk, Gila Woodpecker, cooperative undertaking in the interests of festival of diversity that incorporates Anna’s Hummingbird, Lesser Goldfinch, the readers and partners. people, cultures, activities, and foods. Phainopepla, and White-crowned Early editions published lists of Since 1974 it has been a celebration of Sparrow for this issue of the Vermilion contacts and the editor Frank Chapman who we are as Tucsonans. At its heart it Flycatcher. THRASHER, DORIS EVANS CURVE-BILLED noted, “The splendid influence of the is an educational experience, and we all Frequently noticed and a source of thousands of men and women working learn from being a part. We come away many questions, these six species are in these groups from the Atlantic to the with an enhanced sense of place. This among those that newcomers to watching Pacific is incalculable to our cause.” The year it takes place October 12–13. birds will find easy to get to grips with. Arizona Audubon Society was established Maribel has graciously welcomed As we frequently explain, Tucson has in 1908, based in Tucson with Thomas Tucson Audubon into the celebration so so many kinds of birds because of our K. Marshall Tucson as President and Mrs that we can invite Tucson to “meet its geography. Our region comprises a Harriet B. Thomber as Secretary. But birds.” Tucson Meet Your Birds is our range of habitats and elevations and is that’s another story. way of helping our human residents, surrounded by varied sources of birds, As Audubon members, we can “immigrants, refugees, Native Americans, including the Rockies to the north and appreciate the dual meaning of the word long-timers and newcomers …Tucsonans the Sierra Madre Occidental to the south. “lore” in common English usage today. all” as Maribel puts it, meet the birds that Kendall Kroesen writes more about this From the Latin lorum (meaning strap or form an integral part of our local culture. on page 13. thong) it applies to the surface between We will introduce Tucsonans to their Another reason we can see so many the eye and the base of the upper bill of birds in person at Tucson Meet Yourself species from our backyard is that many a bird. in October 2013, and of course at the pass through this place we call home. From the Old English lar origins it Tucson Bird & Wildlife Festival August We’ll address our migrants in a later refers to learning, especially that gained 14–18, 2013. (Make sure those dates are issue. As David Wilcove of Princeton, by word of mouth, hence its use to refer to in your calendar and tell your friends in (our Gala guest speaker on January 30) a body of knowledge, as contained in Bird other states about the event.) is at pains to explain, we have to protect Lore and collected by a network of bird We kick off with some birds that we both ends of the journey—breeding and enthusiasts across the country.
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