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JULY 21, 2018

Chaco Cultural National Historic Park, a World Heritage Site in New Mexico, teeters back and forth with ongoing lawsuits. As recently as May of this year, the current administration proposed a Bureau of Land Management auction of 4,200 acres of public land in northern Arizona. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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MAY 20, 2023

Of all the hotspots in Arizona, I would have thought that numerous places other than the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum would have been more likely. I am a westerner, so perhaps it is a glorious hotspot, but I’ve never heard Cape Ann, Massachusetts referred to as a world-class birding location.

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MARCH 5, 2024

In fact, the overwhelming majority of federal land is in just 11 western states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming). On a state-by-state basis, that percentage increases dramatically as one moves from east to west.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Instead, they are summer visitors, moving up to Colorado in the warm months to breed before returning to wintering grounds in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. Unlike many other official birds, the Lark Bunting is not a year-round resident.

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JULY 5, 2016

And, the birds and birding trips to Arizona, Florida, California, the waters of North Carolina, and Alaska—always back to Alaska—start accumulating. Supporting characters like Jay Lehman and Chris Hitt, big year birders present and past, start making more frequent appearances.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

California (297) is next, followed by Florida (227), Oregon (209), and New Jersey (199). After those five, there are relative handful with over 100 species: North Carolina (172), Michigan (159), Arizona (155), Washington (144), North Dakota (141!), Virginia (122), New Mexico (112); Texas (106); Colorado (106), and Pennsylvania (102).

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

Trinidad Colorado is located just a few miles north of the Colorado – New Mexico border, and home to the Trinidad Reservoir. We have been feeling a push to get the 5th wheel down to Tucson, Arizona, which will be our home for the winter, and get prepped for another trip out of the US before the end of the year.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico. ” Southern Arizona , including visits to Ramsey Canyon Preserve and Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve. Lifers included Painted Redstart, Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher, Arizona Woodpecker, and Rivoli’s, Violet-crowned, Lucifer, and Broad-billed hummingbird.

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APRIL 2, 2013

A stunning painting of Red-faced Warblers, by artist and field ornithologist Narca Moore-Craig, shout out from the cover of the Arizona Breeding Bird Atlas (Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2005). The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State (Cornell Univ. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Nevada (Univ.

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JUNE 9, 2011

And while we’re at it, what’s your experience with Mexican Ducks and Mallards in Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas? Do you prefer stability and certainty, or would you rather make changes to our lists early and often?

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

Zone-tailed Hawks can be found in the extreme lower parts of the US, in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, with an estimated population of 450-650 birds. Mexico’s baja Peninsula has a strong resident population, and they can be found sporadically thru out main land Mexico.

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JANUARY 5, 2019

Mexican Whip-poor-will – Antrostomus arizonae. Arizona Woodpecker – Dryobates arizonae. Elephant Butte Dam area, New Mexico. Hwy 469, near Tucumcari New Mexico. Garret Mountain Reservation (Park). 07 May 2018. Eastern Whip-poor-will – Antrostomus vociferus. 23 May 2018. 12 Apr 2018.

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DECEMBER 1, 2018

Mexican Whip-poor-will – Antrostomus arizonae. Arizona Woodpecker – Dryobates arizonae. Elephant Butte Dam area, New Mexico. Hwy 469, near Tucumcari New Mexico. Garret Mountain Reservation (Park). 07 May 2018. Eastern Whip-poor-will – Antrostomus vociferus. 23 May 2018. 12 Apr 2018.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Elephant Butte Dam area, New Mexico. Hwy 469, near Tucumcari New Mexico. Mexican Whip-poor-will – Antrostomus arizonae. Violet-crowned Hummingbird – Amazilia violiceps. Paton Center for Hummingbirds (Patons’ Yard). 12 Oct 2018. Curve-billed Thrasher – Toxostoma curvirostre. 09 Oct 2018.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

. # # #. The Secretary has issued waivers for wall-related projects in: (1) San Diego in 2005; (2) Southwestern Arizona in 2007; (3) Southeastern Arizona in 2007; (4) Hidalgo Texas in 2008; and (5) various locations in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas in 2008. Two appeals to the U.S. Trump. # # #.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

After all, there are more than 600 miles of border fencing, walls, and other barriers in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, and there has been plenty of time to assess the effectiveness of barriers. Some of those considerations would include whether border walls are effective in the first place.

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