May 24, 2025 AVAS Bird Walk

NWDC • June 2, 2025
Blue Grosbeak

On Saturday, May 24th a total of 25 Pueblo nature lovers observed 21 bird species around the Nature & Wildlife Discovery Center River Campus. It was a lovely warm morning with camaraderie and lunch afterward—a perfect day!


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


Birds:


Wood Duck

Mallard

Mourning Dove

Double-crested Cormorant

Osprey

Mississippi Kite- adult & juvenile

Red-tailed Hawk

Northern Flicker

Western Wood-Pewee

Western Kingbird

Eastern Kingbird

Warbling Vireo

Blue Jay

American Robin

American Goldfinch

Yellow-breasted Chat

Bullock's Oriole

Common Grackle

Great-tailed Grackle

Yellow Warbler

Blue Grosbeak (Featured in cover photo)


Total Species – 21

May 25 2025 AVAS Bird Walkers

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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