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Yellow-eyed junco (Junco phaeonotus) at Sunny Flat, near Portal, Arizona.
There is something about seeing a roadrunner in a tree that makes it very clear how closely they are related to cuckoos.
Greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) in a Chinese pistache tree (Pistacia chinensis), at the Sierra Vista Environmental Operations Park, Sierra Vista, Arizona.
Golden boy.
First-year male rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) at Ash Canyon. Rufous are late season visitors to southeastern Arizona. Their arrival signals the beginning of the southward migration, with hundreds of hummingbirds stopping over at the bird sanctuary each day. It is astonishing to see the air alive with so many hummers at once.
Light-Bringer.
Lucifer hummingbird (Calothorax lucifer) at the Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary, Cochise County, Arizona.
Après le bain.
Broad-billed hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris) fluffing and preening after a bath, at the Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary, Cochise County, Arizona.
Lucifer.
Immature male broad-billed hummingbird
(Cynanthus latirostris) at Ash Canyon. He will look like this once all his feathers are in.
Fossil Series: Bird.
Fossil Series: Bird.
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