July 26, 2025 AVAS Bird Walk

NWDC • August 13, 2025
Broad Tailed Hummingbird

A total of 15 participants observed 26 species in temperatures ranging from about 70 F to upper 80's F in mostly shade.


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Birds:


Canada Goose (7)

Mallard (12, 2 ducklings)

Mourning Dove (1)

Broad-tailed Hummingbird (1, featured in cover photo)

Spotted Sandpiper (1)

Double-crested Cormorant (14)

Great Blue Heron (1)

Osprey (3)

Mississippi Kite (1)

Downy Woodpecker (1)

Hairy Woodpecker (1)

Western Wood-Pewee (1)

Ash-throated Flycatcher (1)

Western Kingbird (1)

Eastern Kingbird (3)

Warbling Vireo (1)

Black-capped Chickadee (2)

Northern House Wren (1)

European Starling (2)

American Robin (6)

Cedar Waxwing (1)

House Finch (4)

Lesser Goldfinch (1)

Lark Sparrow (3)

Bullock's Oriole (1)

Yellow Warbler (2)


Total species – 26


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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