This site contains collected images, sound recordings, and explanatory text about Arizona birds. Most of the material has been gathered during work on the Arizona Breeding Bird Atlas project (ABBA) administered by Arizona Game and Fish. A collection is usually a sound recording or photograph, and some text, that explains the significance of the material presented. Sometimes both photos and sound recordings are included in the same collection. This copyrighted material may be freely distributed for non-commercial purposes so long as mirror-pole.com, and all the authors of the material, are credited with its production. Commercial users must check with us to verify that the material can be used by them before it is redistributed.
April 15, 2007 - Wild At Heart has now installed about 2500 artificial burrows and relocated over 1000 Burrowing Owls to artificial habitat statewide in Arizona.
June 28, 2005 See the video of the juvenile Burrowing Owl in one of the artificial burrows in Laveen at the Maricopa County Flood Control channel. Laveen Release Sites
See the new program for relocating Burrowing Owls from the low elevation desert areas near Phoenix to the high elevation grassland sites in Cochise, Kingman, Prescott Valley, and the BLM land on the Arizona Strip near St. George, Utah. Follow this link to see the BLM site and the video of the Burrowing Owl eggs in the burrow. These eggs were laid while the owls were still in the release tent.
Grassland_Relocation_Sites
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November 16, 2005 - a new educational section has been added to mirror-pole.com. This section features a panorama photograph of San Francisco taken shortly after the great earthquake and fire in 1906. The web page that identifies features on the photograph will be under construction for some time. At present only a few features have labels with links to pages with crisper views of the feature. There is a link to a view that does not have the labels. We are just beginning to put the educational content together. More information can be found about the project when you follow the link below to the panorama photo section.
1906 San Francisco Panorama Photograph History Project
This page will download and play a bird recording if you have installed the latest version of Windows Media Player and are using Microsoft Explorer. It may not work in Netscape. If you need Windows Media Player you can get it at:
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Wild At Heart Web Site Learn about Arizona raptor rehabilitation at this new site. See the infrared video of the Burrowing Owls in the underground burrows.
Butterflies
Yuma Antelope Squirrel Photographs See a few photographs of adult and juvenile Yuma Antelope Squirrels.
Rock Squirrel Photographs and Video See a few photographs of adult and juvenile Rock Squirrels and Video.
Naturerecordists 2001 Dawn Chorus Project The worldwide community of natural sound recordists comes together on one day to produce a worldwide dawn chorus of planet earth. Download recordings that were all made on September 1, 2001.(This section is under construction as recordings are added by participants. There will be more recordings later!)
Burrowing Owl Artificial Nest Box Project An Arizona Partners in Flight habitat substitution project. Learn about what is being done to replace natural Burrowing Owl burrows in the greater Phoenix area and what you can do to help. Updated December, 2002 with more burrow construction details. See the artificial burrows and Burrowing Owls at the Red Hawk power plant in western Maricopa County.
Arizona Partners in Flight web test site Here we are in the process of building and testing a new APIF web site. Some of the links still take you to the NAU-hosted site, keep that in mind.
Australian Bird Recordings Here are bird recordings made in November, 1999. (9/29/01)
Breeding Bird Collections Updated 06/23/2007 - Black Skimmer
Bird Banding Collections
Dragonfly Photographs Pete Moulton photographs, added 12/03/2002
Cactus and Flowers
Peach-faced Lovebird Study ( We need your Help! Updated 7/3/05)
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Hummingbird photos by Earle Robinson.