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Hagerman NWR: Birding Amidst Oil Wells

10,000 Birds

Under federal and state law, mineral owners have legals right to access and extract their mineral rights. There were already many Snow Geese (along with some Ross’s Geese) as well as countless ducks, primarily Northern Pintail. In the Fall, Franklin’s Gulls migrate through Texas and Oklahoma on their way south.

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