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Our Rivers Tucson Meet Your River Birds Bridge to Everywhere Lost Mesquite Forest THE QUARTERLY NEWS MAGAZINE OF TUCSON AUDUBON SOCIETY | TUCSONAUDUBON.ORG VermFLYCATCHERilion April–June 2013 | Volume 58, Number 2 Our Rivers Tucson Meet Your River Birds Bridge to Everywhere Lost Mesquite Forest It’s Not a Christmas Boat Trip, But It Is the Santa Cruz What’s in a Name? Scaled Quail San Rafael Longspurs Plus 2012 Annual Report Enclosed Features THE QUA R T ERLY NEWS MA G A ZIN E OF TUCSON AUDUBON S OCIET Y | TUCSONAUDUBON .ORG 12 A Bridge to Everywhere: The Luis Gutiérrez Bridge on the Santa Cruz VermFLYCATCHERilion River April–June 2013 | Volume 58, Number 2 13 Tucson Meet Your Birds Our Rivers Tucson Audubon Society is dedicated to improving 16 It’s Not a Christmas Boat Trip, But It Tucson Meet Your River Birds the quality of the environment by providing education, Is the Santa Cruz Bridge to Everywhere conservation, and recreation programs, environmental 17 Charting Wetland Health of the Lower Lost Mesquite Forest leadership, and information. Tucson Audubon is a non-profit volunteer organization of people with a Santa Cruz River common interest in birding and natural history. Tucson 18 The Great Mesquite Forest: A Audubon maintains offices, a library, and nature Permanent Loss in Avifauna Along the shops in Tucson, the proceeds of which benefit all of Santa Cruz River in the Tucson Basin its programs. Tucson Audubon Society 20 What’s in a Name: Scaled Quail 300 E. University Blvd. #120, Tucson, AZ 85705 629-0510 (voice) or 623-3476 (fax) It’s Not a Christmas Boat Trip, Departments But It Is the Santa Cruz All phone numbers are area code 520 unless otherwise stated. What’s in a Name? www.tucsonaudubon.org Scaled Quail 3 Commentary San Rafael Longspurs Board Officers & Directors 4 Events and Classes President Cynthia Pruett 5 Events Calendar Vice President Sandy Elers FrONT COver: Spotted Sandpiper © Jim & Deva Secretary Ruth Russell 6 Living With Nature Lecture Series Treasurer Richard Carlson Burns, Scottsdale, AZ. To see more of their work visit 7 News Roundup Directors at Large Matt Bailey, Ardeth Barnhart, Gavin their website, www.jimburnsphotos.com and follow Bieber, Jennie Duberstein, Dave Dunford, Debra Finch, 21 Conservation and Education News Jim’s birding blog at www.jimburnsphotos.com/pages/ Bob Hernbrode, Linda Greene, John Kennedy, Linda Stitzer, Claire Zucker 25 Field Trips columns.html. Board Committees Conservation Chair Chris McVie, 26 Birding Travel from our Business Partners To have your photograph considered for use in the Development Sandy Elers, Education Jennie Duberstein, Vermilion Flycatcher, please contact Matt Griffiths at Finance Richard Carlson, Outreach Vacant, Nominating 27 Birds & Business Alliance [email protected]. Linda Greene, Personnel Cynthia Pruett 27 Classified Ads Programs & Activities Field Trips Matt Griffiths Library 629-0510 Membership Meetings Jean Barchman 629-0510 Rare Bird Alert Andrew Core | Report Rare Birds 629-0510 The Heritage of the Santa Cruz River Staff (unless otherwise stated, dial 629-0510 plus extension) A guest commentary by Vanessa Bechtol, Executive Director, Executive Director Paul Green ext 7001 Accountant Michelle Bourgeois ext 7003 Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Alliance Finance ext 7014 Membership Coordinator Jean Barchman ext 7002 The Santa Cruz River Valley, with its long and then north-northwest to the Gila River Development Manager Erin Olmstead ext 7009 Volunteer and Development Coordinator complex cultural past, is blessed with a rich historic west of Phoenix. Kara Kaczmarzyk ext 7011 legacy in a unique natural environment. Important The riparian areas along the banks of the Santa Environmental Education Coordinator Bété Jones ext 7012 IBA Conservation Biologist Jennie MacFarland ext 7004 historic and cultural places are strategically Cruz and its perennial tributaries are home to Habitats Program Manager Kendall Kroesen ext 7006 located along this desert river that flows through a special plants and animals, and are corridors for Restoration Biologist Jonathan Horst 971-6238 culturally and environmentally diverse region. Here wildlife movements and migrations. These oases Field Supervisor Rodd Lancaster 256-6909 Communications / Habitat Restoration in the Santa Cruz Valley, Native American, Spanish are habitats and migration stopovers for many Matthew Griffiths 971-7924 Colonial, Mexican, and American Territorial bird species, contributing to Southern Arizona’s Operations and Retail Manager Sara Pike ext 7008 heritages and traditions intersect with the natural reputation as a birding haven. Operations and Retail Coordinator Kelly DiGiacomo ext 7007 Tucson Audubon Nature Shops landscape in ways unique to the American story. The Santa Cruz River is the spine of the 300 E University Blvd #120 ext 7015 These traditions remain a source of the identity and proposed Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage, 623-3476 fax / 629-0510 Shop Manager vitality of the region. which encompasses the Santa Cruz River Hours: 10 AM–4 PM, Monday–Saturday Agua Caliente Park, 12325 E Roger Rd 760-7881 The Santa Cruz River and its tributaries are the watershed in Pima and Santa Cruz counties. The Hours: APRIL–JUNE Wednesday 10 AM–1 PM, ribbons of life that have supported humans and Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Area tells the nationally Thursday 9 AM–2:30 PM, Friday–Saturday, 10 AM–2:30 PM wildlife in the desert for thousands of years. It is distinctive stories of the region, which include also a natural treasure for three nations: United the uniqueness of streams in the desert as well Vermilion Flycatcher is published quarterly. For address States, Tohono O’odham, and Mexico. The Santa as the rich birding habitat and migration routes. changes or subscription problems call 629-0510, or write Cruz River is nationally unique in that it originates The theme of Streams in the Desert is distinctive to Membership Coordinator, Tucson Audubon, 300 E. in the United States, crosses into Mexico, and among the existing 49 National Heritage Areas University Blvd, #120, Tucson, AZ 85705. Submissions are due the 1st of the month, two months before the date of the returns to the United States. Rising in southern across the U.S. For more information visit www. issue. Please send submissions as Microsoft Word or RTF Arizona’s San Rafael Valley, it crosses south into santacruzheritage.org VF documents, or plain text files, to Matt Griffiths at mgriffiths@ Sonora, Mexico, then turns north to re-enter the Vanessa Bechtol has a Bachelor of tucsonaudubon.org. United States east of Nogales, Arizona. It continues Arts in Latin American Studies and Coordinator Matt Griffiths 971-7924 Proofreaders Tucson Audubon staff and volunteers north by Tumacacori National Historical Park to Master of Science in Planning, and is Design / Layout Eng-Li Green cross a 10-mile stretch of the San Xavier District of the Executive Director of the non-profit © 2013 Tucson Audubon Society the Tohono O’odham Nation, through Tucson, and Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Alliance. 2 Tucson Audubon Vermilion Flycatcher APRIL–JUNE 2013 Visit tucsonaudubon.org for updates and more. COMMENtary PAUL GREEN | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR A River Runs Beneath Us This issue of the Vermilion Flycatcher these restoration areas: what do the focuses on rivers, habitats, and the birds changing bird populations tell us about they support. From our local washes the restoration work? through to the mighty Colorado, all have Prior to the Water Resources Research great importance for birds. Center’s annual conference in January of ground water pumping. The upcoming We pull water from the Colorado River, 2012, over 80 individuals gathered to 2014 book Requiem for a River by R Roy Johnson, Robert H Webb, Julio ealbrvhrt as well as from beneath us, resulting in discuss questions of important uses for , R Betancourt and Ray Turner will make for significant habitat degradation both close scarce water resources. Using keypad IVER to home and as far away as the Colorado polling, participants voted for the five salutary reading. R River Delta. Groundwater pumping lowers issues they considered top priorities. The loss of the San Xavier Bosque, OLORADO water levels and breaks the connection to Top of the list was water for the natural together with the loss of cottonwoods that C surface water flow, while direct diversion environment, and how groundwater once graced Tucson, makes us think of of water from rivers leaves less water supports and is connected to stream flow. the countless birds that lost their ability to for our natural environment. Although Several of the articles in this issue survive and the species since extirpated Tucsonans use less water per capita than highlight our Santa Cruz River. Michael from our state. The richness we see today the state’s other large cities the fact is Logan’s book The Lessening Stream is but a remnant of the richness of past we can use less, including for agriculture gives an enlightening longer term times. which accounts for roughly 70 percent of perspective as he answers some simple Closer to home are our neighborhood water consumption in Arizona. questions: when and why did the Santa washes, all of which ultimately lead to Damming and diversions of the Cruz dry up? The answer takes 250 the rivers that lead to the Colorado River. Colorado River have significantly altered pages. The Santa Cruz provided water for Western rivers form a skeleton from important habitats for birds and other residents along its banks for thousands which many of our birds derive support wildlife in the Delta, from the southern of years but in the early years of the last and cling to for life. The derivation of the border between the U.S. and Mexico century surface flows reduced due to word skeleton is from the Greek skeletos, to the Sea of Cortez. The estuary’s groundwater pumping and the severe meaning dried up, withered, parched, just circulation has reversed, salinity has groundwater level declines obliged as most of our rivers appear for much of increased, productivity has decreased, Tucson to look beyond its basin for our the year.
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