August 27, 2022 AVAS Birdwalk

Marketing • August 31, 2022
Canada Geese

At 9am on the fourth Saturday of every month, the Arkansas Valley Audubon Society leads a Birdwalk at the NWDC River Campus for an enjoyable outing to view and identify a variety of birds. During the August 27, 2022 AVAS Birdwalk, 19 birds were seen and/or heard, and ten participants attended. Harry Rurup and Clif Smith were co-leaders for this walk.


Birds:


Canada Goose (featured in cover image)
Mallard
Mourning Dove
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Spotted Sandpiper
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Osprey
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Western Wood-Pewee
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
Black-capped Chickadee
European Starling
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Yellow Warbler


Total Species – 19


Bird Walk Participants

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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