Albatrossity2
Posts: 2780 Joined: Mar. 2007
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Quote (Arden Chatfield @ July 19 2008,11:01) | Hey, Alby, I just spotted your work here!
Those are hard to find -- my sister's been in southern AZ for 8 years and still hasn't managed to see one. |
Yeah, I've got a bunch of pictures scattered across that USGS website. I wish that they would update it; in many cases I have better images now for some of those species! But, as is typical in this administration, education and outreach re wildlife has little support, budgetary or otherwise.
Trogons are not hard to see if you are in the right place. We were camping at Sunny Flat in the Cave Creek area this May, and there was a pair of trogons that visited our campground. Here's the male
and the female
Tell your sister that she just needs to camp out at Sunny Flat for a day or two!
-------------- Flesh of the sky, child of the sky, the mind Has been obligated from the beginning To create an ordered universe As the only possible proof of its own inheritance. - Pattiann Rogers
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