Bendire's Thrasher Area Survey #1 in Avra Valley - 03/17/2020

03/17/2020 07:00 AM - 02:00 PM MT

Category

Important Bird Area Survey

Description

Bendire's Thrasher Area Survey #1 in Avra Valley - 03/17/2020

Bendire's Thrashers are a species of high conservation interest and data shows they are in steep decline. This is a high priority bird species for the Arizona Important Bird Areas program and there is strong conservation goals associated with these surveys.

Tucson Audubon will be surveying an area in Avra Valley managed by Tucson Water. With their permission we are going into this area where Bendire's Thrashers have been documented nesting so we can quantify how many nesting territories this area sustains.