From San Diego County to Texas' Rio Grande Valley, the citizen-scientists deployed to 20 sites for the second annual Border BioBlitz, a two-day volunteer effort to record as many species of flora and fauna as possible on each side of the U.S.-Mexico line.
Taylor Edwards and daughter Amira Dolan, 10, use a loupe to look at small plants March 3 during Border BioBlitz, a communal citizen-science effort in Sycamore Canyon, Coronado National Forest, Ariz.
Taylor Edwards started the morning hike with a wish only a herpetologist could make: “Hope we’ll find some rattlesnakes.”From San Diego County to Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, the citizen-scientists deployed to 20 border-area sites for the second annual Border BioBlitz, a two-day volunteer effort to record as many species of flora and fauna as possible along roughly one-kilometer stretches on each side of the U.S.-Mexico line.
Before they had even left the trail parking lot that Sunday, a volunteer photographed a red bird as it darted from the canopy of a massive oak — a vermilion flycatcher. A few steps down the grassy trail, another volunteer spotted“Is anyone getting these grasses?” shouted organizer Julia Rowe, an invasive species research specialist at Tucson’s Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
Each species identified through telltale evidence was recorded: ringtail tracks; a Coues deer’s leg bone, coyote scat and a canyon wren peep-peeping behind the scaly trunk of an alligator juniper.
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