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Cover Photo By Jeff Goulding
Southeast Arizona (Tucson Audubon Society)
If you’ve spotted a rare bird, you can report it directly to the Tucson Audubon Society Rare Bird Alert (RBA) line or email their dedicated hotline.
Call: 520-629-0510 ext. 3
You can also view the latest Rare Bird Alert for Tucson and Southeast Arizona online.
Reports are updated weekly—usually on Thursdays or Fridays—to keep the birding community current on sightings throughout the region.
Your observation could be the next exciting addition to Arizona’s birding records.
https://ebird.org/home
This is a great resource to get updates on birds in your area. Subscribe to Rare Bird Alerts (RBA)
Keep track of the birds you see and store your life list. Can be used worldwide and is run through
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
This also helps scientists track trends in declining or increasing bird populations. Merlin,
See below, Cornell also runs it, and it is a great app that helps identify bird song as well as photos.
http://www.birdseyebirding.com
This app lets you search nearby birds, RBA’s, and keeps track of your life list.
A bird book in your pocket with all sorts of resources at your fingertips.
https://www.sibleyguides.com/product/sibley-birds-v2-app/
A great app that helps identify birds in the field. The app allows you to compare two species at once for the confusing times of two similar-looking birds.
Merlin is a great app for listening to birds and having them identified. It is not 100% accurate, but with experience, it will make sense when it makes a mistake.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/merlin-bird-id-by-cornell-lab/id773457673
A local Rare Bird Alert for New Mexico and Arizona
https://list.arizona.edu/sympa/info/aznmbirds
https://hawkwatch.org/raptor-id/raptor-id-app/
Discord is an app that helps to join various discussion groups in your area and find rare birds or
other species with the help of community members.
