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Janie Stewart chases a ‘Big Year,’ breaks county birding record

This story originally appeared in Larson Newspapers' Spring 2021 edition of Lifestyles of Sedona magazine. In birding, a Big Year is an attempt to see as many species as possible in a specific area over a one-year period. Big Year...

Rare Common Loon puts on a show

A common loon — though not common in the Verde Valley — surprised the birding community this week by lingering in the far lagoon of Dead Horse Ranch State Park for nine days as of March 12. Many birders have...

Feds deem Verde critical for cuckoos

On April 20, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service desig­nated 298,845 acres across seven Western states as critical habitat for the western yellow-billed cuckoo. The designa­tion includes several rivers and streams in the Verde Valley, including Oak Creek, the...

Sedona birders look toward ‘dawn chorus’

While a lot of human travel has paused temporarily, that has not slowed down the planet’s birds, which are on the move across oceans and continents as winter turns to spring in the northern hemisphere. Birders in the Verde...

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Sedona Police Department sells pink police patches for breast cancer 

The Sedona Police Department has gone pink with its patches for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  “For our department, in...

City moves to swat private sport courts

The Sedona City Council held a work session on Oct. 9 at which council members supported creating new regulations...
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