The Great Backyard Bird Count Is Here — So Are All These Other Beauties
February 8, 2023Guest Blog by Randy Serraglio When my partner and I moved into our house about 11 years ago, we saw great potential for creating urban habitat, even though it was…
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Season’s Greetings, Nocturnal Creatures!
October 24, 2022As Halloween approaches, images of werewolves, chupacabras, and all sorts of other scary-spookies are everywhere. Definitely in my head; maybe in yours. Throughout the year we here at Sky Island…
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A Big Month for Coyotes
September 28, 2022When reviewing photos from Sky Island Alliance’s FotoFauna wildlife cameras each month, I always get excited to see which species will show up and what story they’ll tell. Recently it…
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An Unforgettable Encounter With Arizona Fireflies
September 19, 2022Guest Blog and Photos by Julius Schlosburg On the East Coast many of us grew up catching fireflies or “lightning bugs.” We’d contain them in jars or in our hands,…
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Marvelous Monsoon Hawkmoths
September 7, 2022Guest Blog by Justin Schmidt and Jillian Cowles We take for granted in the Sky Islands that the summer monsoons bring flowers. But beautiful flowers as we know them today…
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Searching for Springsnails in Arizona
July 5, 2022“I found one! Wait, no, that’s a pebble.” That was my refrain recently when I went out in the field to search for springsnails with Jeff Sorensen, a.k.a. “the snail…
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In Search of a Threatened Sonoran Minnow
June 15, 2022In May 2022 three Sky Island Alliance staff members from Sonora — Angel García, Miguel Enríquez, and Mónica Montaño — joined a group of native fish researchers and conservationists in…
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Friday Fauna Feature: Hog-nosed Skunk
May 24, 2022Written by Aleidys López Romero No, they don’t ‘oink, oink.’ But yes! they do have special powers and many endearing qualities. It’s the long, bare nose of American hog-nosed skunks…
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Aravaipa Canyon: Field Report!
March 29, 2022Sky Island Alliance and our wonderful volunteers are back in Aravaipa Canyon! We’re continuing our work of the last several years to hand-pull Vinca major from the banks of Aravaipa…
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Spring’s a Comin’
March 20, 2022March 20th is the spring equinox of 2022, when the length of day equals that of night. This marks the first day of Spring for us in the Northern Hemisphere….
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