Today my guest is Jennie MacFarland, a returning guest from Episode 6, a nearly life-long Arizonan that loves exploring different habitats in Southeast Arizona. She currently works as a Conservation Biologist for the Tucson Audubon Society and coordinates the Important Bird Areas Program and other bird survey conservation projects. Jennie organizes several large-scale community science efforts in Southeast Arizona each year, including the Elegant Trogon surveys of five Sky Island mountain ranges.

This is the second episode of two that focuses on the Tucson Birdathon, through the eyes of a local team, the Wrenagades. This episode, we'll talk about how the Birdathon went this year, getting into the details of the route, some of the highlights and trends.

More on the Desert Purple Martin Project (Including some videos of them!)
https://tucsonaudubon.org/purplemartin/

More information on the 2023 Southeast Arizona Birding Festival (Aug. 9-13, 2023)
https://tucsonaudubon.org/festival/

Chapters

• 00:00 - Intro
• 00:34 - Recent Elegant Trogon Survey
• 03:26 - 2023 Birdathon Recap
• 18:54 - Trends from the Birdathon
• 20:36 - Things that went well & Things that didn’t
• 23:40 - Curve-billed Thrasher in the Background
• 23:47 - Bird of the Episode
• 33:31 - Southeast Arizona Bird Festival
• 34:39 - Desert Purple Martin Request
• 38:03 - Outro

Thank you for listening!

Please checkout the podcast's Instagram - @lookingatbirdspodcast -  for some pictures of some of the birds discussed on the podcast.