Buenos Aires NWR--Honnas Pond

Tips for Birding

Honnas Pond is one of ten location-specific hotspots within Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge.  Use the greater Refuge hotspot when you have a checklist that includes multiple locations.

Birds of Interest

Yellow-billed Cuckoo, threatened throughout the western US, have been recorded Jun-Jul.

Among USFWS-designated Birds of Conservation Concern for the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sonoran Desert regions, the following species have been listed multiple times for this hotspot over the recent 5-year period 2019-2023:  Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Apr), Olive-sided Flycatcher (Apr-May), Gila Woodpecker (all year), Verdin (Apr-Aug), Curve-billed Thrasher (all year), Phainopepla (May-Aug), Rufous-winged Sparrow (May-Aug), Pyrrhuloxia (May-Aug), and Varied Bunting (May-Jul).

About Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge

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Located in southern Arizona, Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge was established for the reintroduction of masked bobwhite quail and to restore the natural landscapes and native wildlife that depend upon it.

Spanning the 117,464-acre refuge are several distinct groups of plants and animals that are dependent on each other, also known as biotic communities. Visitors will enjoy the semi-desert grasslands that blend into the cottonwoods and willow that line river banks and wetlands within the refuge. Settled in amongst the grasslands and wetlands is a beautiful sycamore-shaded canyon of extraordinary diversity. Brown Canyon is home to 200-million-year-old volcanic rocks that support a distinct variety of plants and animals that have evolved within this amazing sky island ecosystem.

Established in 1985, the refuge was purchased under the authority of the Endangered Species Act. Open to the public, visitors can enjoy wildlife watching and photography, hunting, fishing, wildlife photography, and special wildlife-related events. It is one of more than 550 refuges that comprise the National Wildlife Refuge System, a national network of public lands and waters set aside for the benefit of wildlife and you!

Features

  • Restrooms on site

  • Wheelchair accessible trail

  • Entrance fee

Content from Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge Official Website and John Montgomery

Last updated February 28, 2024