During our visit to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, my sister and I saw raptors and lots of other birds, but there were plenty of animals to observe as well. While the museum's focus on species that are native to Arizona limits the number of exhibits, there's a sense that the animals are very much at home... Continue Reading →
Beyond Raptors: Other Birds at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
I may have given you the impression that the only birds at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum are raptors, like the barn owl and Harris's hawks I saw in their daily Raptor Free-Flights. But visitors to the ASDM see plenty of other interesting birds, all native to some part of Arizona. When I was there in February,... Continue Reading →
Raptors Fly Free at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
While I was in Tucson in February, I was fortunate enough to spend a day that the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Despite the name, the Museum is really a bunch of things: botanical garden, zoo, aquarium, and museum, all dedicated to species that are native to Arizona. I'd visited once before when I was living in Phoenix... Continue Reading →
