3/23/2015

Southwest USA study trip III


 

While studying wildflowers among cactus in the Southwest, I spotted birds we probably won't see around here . . . .


Gambel's Quail  (nests on the ground, eats grasses and cactus fruits)


Cactus Wren  (nests in woodpecker holes, loud and boisterous)


Gila Woodpecker (makes nest holes in palms and saguaros)


Greater Roadrunner (hides nest in center of cactus thorns, here taking a lizard to the nest)