AZ-Patagonia+Roadside+Rest+Area


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Santa Cruz County
=Patagonia Roadside Rest Area= Patagonia, Arizona 85624

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Patagonia Roadside Rest Area
Coordinates: 31.508, -110.802 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Tips for birding Patagonia Roadside Rest Area
From Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory

About Patagonia Roadside Rest Area
The unassuming Patagonia rest area – a few picnic tables tucked among ash, walnut and cottonwood trees about four miles south of town on the east side of Arizona Highway 82 – is fairly famous in the birding world. “Patagonia Rest Area Effect” is shorthand for the phenomenon that the sighting of one rare bird in an area almost always leads to the sighting of another rare bird and then another and another.

In the 1960s, rose-throated becards, rarely seen north of Mexico, were spotted nesting here. This sighting drew birders from across the country. In short order, the first U.S. colony of five-striped sparrows was spotted. And then thick-billed kingbirds, black-capped gnatcatchers, and fan-tailed warblers, all of which are a pretty big deal and still put in appearances here. From Birding in Arizona

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