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A Sonoran Desert Spring Classic: the Tubac Hawk Watch

By Matt Griffiths Gray Hawk, Matthew Studebaker As winter becomes spring in the Sonoran Desert during the month of March, many people think of baseball diamonds and the return of the great American pastime. A visit to Ron Morriss County Park in Tubac at this time might prove otherwise as the baseball field is empty and the sidelines are filled with people watching for flying hawks instead of fly balls. In a spring classic that's been occurring for untold generations, migrating raptors utilize our region on their way to locations further north. You might wonder why these birds would choose the seemingly sparse desert to travel through, especially since some of them have flown all the way from Argentina! The keys to this puzzle are the amazingly rich and diverse riparian areas that lie along the Santa Cruz and San Pedro Rivers. These two lush corridors are a part of the Madrean Sky Island region, an area of high mountain ranges and low arid valleys that has a species diversity rivali

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