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Winter 2005/2006 TheNotes Cactus & Announcements Wren•dition Volume LIII, No. 4 Winter 2005/2006 Pine Siskin on thistle Maricopa Audubon Meetings & Programs Oct. 2005 – May 2006 Cynthia Donald Please join us for a terrific year Meetings start at 7:30 p.m., and is no charge to attend our general of speakers with a wide range of feature a general membership membership meetings, the Annual topics – the Arizona Breeding Bird meeting, guest speaker, book sales, Banquet does require a dinner Atlas, mining of Oak Flat, Grand refreshments and a chance to reservation and associated cost. Canyon protection, Bald Eagles, Bird socialize with MAS members. Visitors Coloration, Avian Communication and are most welcome! Our September A pre-meeting dinner at Pete’s 19th Hummingbirds. through April meetings are held in Tee Restaurant, 1405 N. Mill Avenue Dorrance Hall at the Desert Botanical in Tempe (at the Rolling Hills Golf Meetings are held on the 1st Tuesday Garden. The Garden is located Course), will be in effect for the events & programs of each month, September through at 1201 North Galvin Parkway in September through April meetings. May. Our May meeting is our Phoenix, which is approximately Come and join us at 6:00 p.m. for Annual Banquet with a location to be ½ mile north of the Phoenix Zoo. a delicious meal (no-host), meet announced. Please check our web Dorrance Hall is located off the our guest speaker and say “howdy” site or newsletter for the location of main parking lot and entry to the to other birders. Meals at Pete’s the May 2006 banquet. Garden. There will be signs directing average $5.00 to $7.00. you to the meeting. Although there continued on page 3 Committees/Support From the Editor, Deva Burns Activist Alert Shawn Baur 602-828-3607 s I sat down this morning to a must read. I also want to remind [email protected] start gathering the articles you of the Christmas Bird Counts. Arizona Audubon Council Rep submitted for this issue, I Walter has been trying valiantly to Krys Hammer A 480-413-9805 looked out the window and saw a gather dates from the leaders. To [email protected] large dove with a black collar at his great relief the last dates came in Book Store our fountain. Thoughts of editing just as we went to press. Our regular Krys Hammers went flying as I studied the bird as 480-413-9805 articles are all here too, and the [email protected] it turned in various directions. Just Photo Quiz is easier this issue. I can’t Field Observations before it took off, it showed me its believe I actually knew all three birds Janet Witzeman white undertail coverts. How nice to 602-840-6089 without cheating! [email protected] know we have Ringed Turtle-Doves in Did you fill out the Member Survey the neighborhood, exotics yes, but Hospitality in the last issue? Please look back Gretchen Burgess somehow without the baggage of 480 949-8224 and take the time to do it. The Board the “invaders,” the Eurasian Collared- wants Maricopa Audubon to represent Web Page Doves! Kurt Radamaker the members and what better way 480.837-2446 How many of you know the motto [email protected] than by hearing their voices. of National Audubon? It’s “connecting Finally, thoughts now turn to winter Maricopa Audubon web site people with nature” and our president, http://www.maricopaaudubon.org Mike Rupp reminds us in his column (winter?--it was 100 degrees today!). “Man’s greatest joy is to teach the love of Valley birding will be more pleasant nature.” Anon that making this connection in Maricopa County is his passion, and soon, so get out there and see what An Investment in the Future asks that we make it ours as well. you can see. More importantly, go Bequests are an important source of support for visit the new Audubon Center that the Maricopa Audubon Society. Your chapter has Please read Mike’s explanation of how dedicated itself to the protection of the natural world National is trying to connect with the opens the first weekend in November through public education and advocacy for the wiser use and preservation of our land, water, air and local chapters and how we can help. (see Sam Campana’s article), the other irreplaceable natural resources. If you haven’t been following the Gilbert Water Ranch, or any other You can invest in the future of our natural world by Resolution Copper Company issue, favorite Valley birding locations. making a bequest in your will to the Maricopa Audubon Society. Talk to your attorney for more information Bob’s article (a condensation of a on how this can be accomplished. letter sent to National Audubon) is Pine Siskin on thistle; photographed by Jim Burns at Becker Lake, AZ, August 6, 2005 with Canon EOS 1D body and Canon 600mm f/4 lens. 2 The Cactus Wren•dition events & programs Maricopa Audubon Meetings & Programs Oct. 2005 – May 2006 October 4, 2005 we, as responsible homeowners on the internet of Pierre’s field Roxane George Grand Canyon and landscapers, can do to provide observations. Protection Campaign substitute habitats. Paul has a degree The Grand Canyon is much more from ASU, is a Master Gardener, and April 4, 2006 than a spectacular piece of scenery: has been a licensed Valley contractor David Reesor Birding Around the it’s a link to our past. The concept since 1995 Ring of Fire of setting aside wild places that David is well-known for his incredible represent the beauty, solitude and January 3, 2006 photographs and compelling stories. power of nature is an important part Mike Rupp Arizona’s Nesting Bald Join him in a trip around the “Ring of the American psyche. Today, the Eagle Program of Fire”, from the northern Japanese wilderness character of the Grand Join the Arizona Game and Fish islands (now held by Russia), to Canyon is diminished by noise from biologists as they band Bald Eagle Kamchatka in Russia, through the scenic tour flights, motorized raft trips chicks. Mike Rupp’s video will Pribiloff Islands and on to Alaska and visitor traffic. Valuable habitat document Arizona nesting eagles and is at risk from over a century of fire discuss the status of the species. May 2, 2006 suppression, logging, grazing, mining We are hopeful that Liberty Wildlife Sheri Williamson Hummingbirds: and road building. This beautiful will have their Bald Eagle at this More Than Just Eye Candy and informative program gives an presentation as well. Don’t let the Disney-esque public overview of the threats facing one of image fool you! There’s much more our greatest natural treasures and the February 7 2006 going on behind a hummingbird’s actions we can take to preserve the Kevin McGraw Communication in glittering façade than meets the eye. Canyon for future generations. Color – The Avian Language of Love From their confusing plumages and Birds are among the most savage battles to their continent- November 1, 2005 extravagantly and variably colored spanning travels and penchant Resolution Copper Company Mining animals on Earth, which raises for mix-and-match mating, these in Queen Creek and Oak Flat the evolutionary question of why tiny dynamos pack a lot of birding Andy Wiessner and Jennifer Russo they develop so many different excitement into a small package from the Resolution Copper Company colorful features in their plumage – and Arizona birders have a ring- will discuss the Resolution Copper and bare parts. Dr. McGraw runs side seat! Sheri Williamson, so- Company project in Superior, Arizona a research program at ASU and he founder and director/naturalist of and various aspects of the Federal has focused most of his attention on SABO is the author of A Field Guide land exchange legislation introduced understanding how these different to Hummingbirds of North America. earlier this year in Congress. colors are produced and used. A An avid birder since childhood, she Mr. Wiessner has served as a primary thrust of his current research resisted the charms of hummingbirds representative on the Eagle County involves less-common colors including until 1988 when she and her Open Space Advisory Committee for red and yellow in parrots and yellow in husband, Tom Wood, were hired as the Town of Vail, Colorado; serves penguins. resident managers of The Nature on the board of the Eagle Valley Conservancy’s Ramsey Canyon Land Trust, the Colorado Land Trust; March 7, 2006 Preserve. Though hummingbirds and has a 19-year tenure with High Pierre Deviche Oscine Serenade have been a major focus of Sheri’s Country News. Birds are unmatched in the range and recent life, she also has a special complexity of their voices. Some interest in raptors, trogons and December 6, 2005 birds produce harmonics, some manakins, and enjoys watching Paul Holdeman Wildlife-Friendly Water: sing well-coordinated duets, some butterflies and reptiles. Oasis in the Desert can even reproduce human voices. Paul’s presentation will center around Oscines are that group of songbirds NOTE: The May program will be properly built ponds to attract that learn their songs. Join Dr. associated with our Annual Banquet. wildlife, allowing them safe ingress Deviche as he takes us on a journey Check our web site, newsletter, or and egress. It will also touch on our through bird vocalization. Many of contact a board member for location disappearing wetlands, and what you are already familiar with postings information. Winter 2005 3 A Critical Educational Resource for Greater Phoenix Sam Campana verlooking the restored and revitalized Salt River, the The Rio Salado Audubon Center will bring to greater Phoenix: Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado Audubon Center will be an • An environmentally integrated (green) building available to the important nature and conservation resource for greater O public for nature education and community events.
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