Bird-Watching Tips for Beginners
One of the best ways to learn birding is with other bird-watchers. Photograph by Yuriy Seleznev/Shutterstock. Gather the right tools. Bird-watching is a pretty inexpensive activity, but you need some…
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Tag: Birding Spots
Editor's Letter: Close Call
Western bluebirds are a common sight in backyards across New Mexico. Photograph by Benoit Gauzere/Unsplash. I WAS MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS on a sunny November afternoon when a commotion arose in the…
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Sandhill Cranes are Taking Off at Bosque del Apache
THE MORNING TEMPERATURES at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, near Socorro, can drop below freezing in the winter, when avid bird-watchers brave the chill to catch the show. They come to…
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Taos Park Takes Flight
Above: A Cooper's hawk checks out the view during a dinner break. Photograph by Jim O'Donnell. A BEAVER MOVES from her pond—quick, smooth, and silent, cutting the water with just the crown of her…
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Call of the Plains
Above: A Swainson's hawk at Maxwell National Wildlife Refuge. Photographs by Jim O'Donnell. ON A BLUEBIRD MORNING IN MAY, Tony Godfrey pulls his pickup off a steep gravel road winding through a stand…
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