Springs Bird Watch: Following the Water and the Life It Supports

Calling all birders in the Sky Islands! We’re launching a new bird-monitoring project, Springs Bird Watch, to document the region’s avian diversity and the water sources that birds and other wildlife depend on, from low desert to upper pines. Join our virtual Coffee Break on Thursday, Oct. 29, at 9:30 a.m. to learn how to get started, where to go, and how your observations at springs can help both resident and migratory species, from hermit thrushes and hummingbirds to yellow-billed cuckoos and elegant trogons. Eamon Harrity, SIA’s wildlife program manager and an enthusiastic birder, will lead the talk and explain how your data will help advance both bird and spring conservation. Springs Bird Watch is funded in part by the Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area. *Photo of hermit thrush at a spring in Chiricahua National Monument courtesy National Park Service.*