My comments on the quiet birds in AZ referred to the saguaro and organ
pipe cactus habitat. Later that trip we moved up into the canyons with
better luck. That's when we recorded the Flame-colored Tanager and some
other good birds.
Kevin
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Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] The Quiet Arizona Biophony
They've all gathered in this area (N. California), folks. This was
the richest, densest, longest lasting bird season I can remember in
40 years. Until the first weekend in July, we never had/saw/heard so
many. Now, it's pretty quiet.
Bernie Krause
>Interesting comments by Kevin and others about the lack of birds in
>Arizona and the drought. There is an article in the Canadian
>Geographic May/June 2003 about the drought in southeastern Alberta
>and the 90% loss of bird numbers.The writers speculate about Global
>Warming or the Natural Cyclic rythmn of the earth. I have a fantasy
>to record in the southwestern desert sometime but maybe I'm too late?
>John Neville
>Salt Spring Island BC Canada
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