Status in SE Arizona: Rare summer visitor.
Timing: Apr-Aug.
Status in USA: Most US records are from SE Arizona.
Habitat/location: A male returned every year to Madera Canyon from 2002 to 2010, but not since. One or two pairs were found in the Huachuca Mountains in 2015. Otherwise less than annual in mid to higher elevation canyons such as Ramsey Canyon. Beware the possibility of hybrids.
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Page updated: July 2015. All photos copyright © Richard P Fray, unless stated