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| | Chihuahua Trip Report |
 | | As we approached the town, passing through scattered pines and agricultural fields, eastern meadowlarks (with songs distinctly different from those in southeast AZ), blue grosbeaks, loggerhead shrikes, Cassin's kingbirds, American kestrel, Swainson's hawk, and lark sparrows dotted the fenceposts and wires. |
 | | White fir, Douglas fir, white pine, violets, bracken fir, Rocky Mountain maple, Gambel oak, and quaking aspen create a gorgeous background for the amazing sights and sounds of the area's avian stars, the thick-billed parrots. |
 | | Seeing canyon towhees and curve-billed thrashers singing from the pines at 7000 feet alongside greater pewees and pygmy nuthatches was one of those incongruous images that just didn't make sense compared to our experience in southeast AZ where these species almost never overlap. |
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