March 22, 2025 AVAS Bird Walk

Marketing • March 26, 2025
Bufflehead

On a beautiful officially spring day and the first AVAS Bird Walk of Spring 2025, 15 participants observed a total of 26 bird species.


Join us on our 9 am walks on the 4th Saturday of every month.


Birds:


Canada Goose (1)

Gadwall (1)

Mallard (8)

Bufflehead (3) (featured in cover photo)

Eurasian Collared-Dove (2)

White-winged Dove (3)

American Coot (2)

Ring-billed Gull (10)

Pied-billed Grebe (2)

Osprey (5)

Sharp-shinned Hawk (1)

Red-tailed Hawk (1)

Great Horned Owl (1)

Belted Kingfisher (1)

Northern Flicker (2)

Blue Jay (1)

Bushtit (3)

White-breasted Nuthatch (2)

Bewick's Wren (2)

European Starling (3)

Curve-billed Thrasher (1)

American Robin (1)

House Sparrow (5)

Dark-eyed Junco (2)

White-crowned Sparrow (10)

Red-winged Blackbird (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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