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A New Year Chat

Chats are notoriously difficult birds to spot…

Fly high this year!

In the American Southwest, it is a sky island dweller found in southern Arizona and New Mexico where it favors montane forests of fir, pine and oak.

Hundreds of birders and nature enthusiasts of all stripes migrate to Cape May Island.

The Red-faced Warbler breeds in AZ and NM at higher elevations from 5600” to 9000” and nests on the ground.

It breeds in tropical mountains and canyons with pines and oaks forests from southern New Mexico and Arizona to Nicaragua.

They are small warblers, bright red, and subspecies are separated by the color of the cheek patch.

This Arizona vagrant is a year round resident that favors lowlands and foothills in Mexico through northern Central America.

The endemic Golden-cheeked Warbler is on the Federal Endangered Species list.

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