July 8, 2023 AVAS Bird Walk

Marketing • July 13, 2023
Yellow Warbler

On July 8, 2023, 11 participants walked the muddy trails of the Nature & Wildlife Discovery Center- River Campus on a lovely cool morning.


Birds:


Great Horned Owl
Osprey
Northern Flicker
American Robin
Cormorant
Red-tailed Hawk
House Wren
Yellow Warbler (featured in cover photo)
Eurasian Collared Dove
Western Wood Pewee
Red-winged Blackbird
Turkey Vulture
Starling
Tree Swallow
American Kestrel
Western Kingbird


Total Species – 16


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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