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Mr. Panama spotted a masked trogon perched on a branch.

Posted outside Cave Creek Ranch in the Chiricahua Mountains, about 150 miles southeast of Tucson, a schedule of the expected arrival dates of migrating and seasonal birds anticipated the elegant trogon on April 6.

The Huachucas, about 85 miles southeast of Tucson, are known for supporting the largest number of breeding pairs of elegant trogon in the country and 15 varieties of hummingbirds.

They listened for the elegant trogon’s dog-like call but only heard a bird they were unable to identify that sounded, as one volunteer put it, “like a rotary telephone.”

However, Montana in winter promises little, so the pair travel to Arizona, “a brand-new ecosystem” for them “with ornithological riches beyond our imagination: exotic hummingbirds, flycatchers, woodpeckers, raptors, buntings — maybe even a tropical trogon.”