A Wordless Wednesday for the Birds...at the AZ Sonora Desert Museum Raptor Free Flight

...from a few days ago; my wife and I went to the Raptor Free Flight at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. We go just about every year--it only takes place from October through April...

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More information available here:

http://www.afar.com/highlights/up-close-at-the-raptor-free-flight 

http://www.desertmuseum.org/about/articles/afar.php 

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And while this bird is definitely not a raptor,

Lilac Crowned parrots live in the dry deciduous

forests on the southern fringes of the Sonoran Desert: