April 26, 2025 AVAS Bird Walk

NWDC • April 30, 2025
Violet-Green Sparrow

On the spring day an the April 26, 2025, AVAS Bird Walk, 13 participants observed a total of 24 bird species.


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Birds:


Canada Goose (3)

Wood Duck (3)

Blue-winged Teal (3)

Gadwall( 4)

Mallard (5)

Bufflehead (2)

Common Merganser (2)

Eurasian Collared-Dove (2)

White-winged Dove (2)

Mourning Dove (1)

Pied-billed Grebe (1)

Double-crested Cormorant (1)

Turkey Vulture (2)

Osprey (1)

Great Horned Owl (1)

Downy Woodpecker (1)

Hairy Woodpecker (1)

Northern Flicker (1)

Eastern Phoebe (1)

Black-capped Chickadee (1)

Violet-green Swallow (10) (featured in cover photo)

White-breasted Nuthatch (2)

European Starling (10)

American Robin (1)

House Sparrow (2)

White-crowned Sparrow (3)

Red-winged Blackbird (5)

Yellow-rumped Warbler (6)

Other Swallows (Hundreds)


Total Species – 24


About AVAS


The Arkansas Valley Audubon Society (AVAS) is located in Pueblo, Colorado and is one of 500 Audubon chapters around the country. AVAS conducts birding activities, offers community programs, contributes to pro-environmental legislative initiatives, and works with agencies that manage public lands and sponsors birding field trips. The mission of AVAS is to promote the conservation of nature through education, political action and field activities with a focus on birds, other wildlife and habitat in Southern Colorado.


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