October 26, 2024 AVAS Bird Walk

Marketing • October 31, 2024
Slate Junco

Fifteen people joined us on the 10/26/2024 walk on a crisp beautiful morning. We saw 23 species ranging from Common Merganser to Ruby-crowned Kinglet to Lesser Goldfinch to Belted Kingfisher to Red-tailed Hawk, and more!


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Birds:


Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Junco-Slate and Oregon (featured in cover photo)
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Great Blue Heron
Red-tailed Hawk
Spotted Towhee
Common Merganser
Black-capped Chickadee
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Canada Geese
Wood Duck
Mallards
White-winged Dove
Eurasian-collared Dove
Pie-billed Grebe
Osprey
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Blue Jay
Starlings
House Sparrows
Lesser Goldfinch
White-crowned Sparrow


Total Species – 23


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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