Number of states with HPAI-infected dairy cows grows
AVMA News
APRIL 2, 2024
More dairy cattle in Idaho, New Mexico, and Texas have tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAI).
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AVMA News
APRIL 2, 2024
More dairy cattle in Idaho, New Mexico, and Texas have tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAI).
Critter News
AUGUST 19, 2010
Bill Richardson is asking to tour a former medical research lab in southern New Mexico that houses more than 200 chimpanzees. Tags: chimpanzees animal research animal laboratories Texas new mexico. From the AP. Richardson made the comment Tuesday after meeting in Bethesda, Md.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Not so with our visit to Bosque de Apache NWR in southern New Mexico. The second half of the week was spent near the town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. The post Little Big Year – Week 36: Southern New Mexico hotspots. eBird.org submissions – 312. US species – 243.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2015
In fact, they are central to many Mexican and Native American spiritual beliefs, and have been named the state bird of New Mexico. However, in real life Greater Roadrunners are quite different. Officially adopted as the state bird in 1949 , the Greater Roadrunner was once known as the “Chaparral Bird.”
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2020
In autumn and winter, they descend these high ridges to avoid the worst of the high winds and blowing snow – sometimes to feeders such as Sandia Crest in New Mexico, where there is a long ongoing study on these fascinatingly tough songbirds. New Mexico Nature & Culture. Painted Bunting by Carlos Sanchez.
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2013
Matt Daw just had the find of a lifetime at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. He was busy filming a Least Bittern , a pretty good bird to get video of to begin with, when, well, watch the video! That Rufous-necked Wood-Rail is a first in the ABA Area and it is way, way, way, out of place.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 28, 2014
The lawsuit was filed with the state of New Mexico, county of Bernalillo, Second Judicial District Court by attorney A. Conservation cats New Mexico' Blair Dunn on behalf of Marcy Britton, a resident of Albuquerque. They do great work!
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2011
Nine thousand pour into tiny Socorro, New Mexico, each November for Bosque del Apache’s Festival of the Cranes. Everywhere cranes gather, from New Mexico to Indiana to Tennessee, people come to watch them. Cranes, with their purring calls and lanky angular forms, stir peoples’ souls.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 21, 2021
Curiously, it has also been found in some moist forest sites and in common with other rails, wanders on occasion (like when one took that weird vacation in New Mexico) but in general, it seems to love creeping around the bowed roots of mangroves. Mangrove Rail.
Critter News
AUGUST 23, 2010
The Governor of New Mexico has already met with the National Institutes of Health to try and stop this transfer with no apparent success. Tags: chimpanzees animal research primates National Institutes of Health PETA new mexico. Some of the animals are 60 years old and veterans of the US space program.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2014
What a coincidence,” says Mikal Deese of On A WIng and A Prayer in New Mexico. “I I could laugh about it because the mole was fine.”. Alternatives to mouse-catching glue traps? See Safe Rodent Control. Glue traps! I just spent the last hour working on a Greater Roadrunner with both feet and his tail stuck on a glue board.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2014
There are two Painted Bunting populations, one that breeds along the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to Florida and one that breeds in the interior United States and northern Mexico from southeastern New Mexico to western Mississippi.
Critter News
DECEMBER 31, 2010
The Alamagordo chimps will be allowed to remain in New Mexico for about two years while the NIH studies the issue of their transference. AP) - Some 186 chimpanzees will remain at a federal facility in New Mexico for now. This gives animal rights activists some time to prepare further defense of the animals.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 4, 2010
Tags: chimpanzees animal research almagordo primates National Institutes of Health new mexico.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
Here's the latest I could find.still no real news. Tags: chimpanzees animal research primates National Institutes of Health new mexico.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 6, 2012
The southwestern US is still undiscovered country for me – barring one trip to San Diego and a handfull of layovers in Las Vegas, I’ve never been – and I had imagined a Grace’s Warbler darting out of a treetop in Nevada or New Mexico to add a flash of color to my first real exploration of the region.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 2, 2010
Tags: chimpanzees primates National Institutes of Health medical research new mexico.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2021
It seems Common Mergansers are similarly lazy birds – according to a study quoted in the HBW, wintering individuals in New Mexico spent 58.6% Maybe we all have the wrong jobs (or skills). of time loafing, 17.5% sleeping, 5.7% preening, 4.0% stretching, 3.8% swimming, and <4% feeding.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
In fact, they have risen to become the most active Nest Watching group in New Mexico (regardless of species), contributing 77% of the state’s data in 2018.”. We at NestWatch are very excited that this group has burst onto the scene and quickly become our primary source of information about this species.
Critter News
AUGUST 26, 2010
Tags: chimpanzees animal research primates National Institutes of Health new mexico.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2016
This guest blog was written by Mikal Deese, Wildlife Educator, Rehabilitator, and founder of On A Wing And A Prayer in Corrales, New Mexico.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 21, 2011
The main wintering area for Ross’s Goose ( Chen rossii ) is presently in the Central Valley of California, though increasing numbers winter in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Texas, and the north-central highlands of Mexico 1. Map courtesy of Terry Sohl at South Dakota Birds and Birding.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2019
For example, Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico is renowned for its winter birding, featuring huge numbers of Sandhill Cranes and Snow Geese, among others. The report also analyzed numerous individual refuges, several of which are popular birding hotspots. (A A number of these NWRs appear on my list of the Top 25 NWRs for Birding.).
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2021
There are several states with 100-199 species: North Carolina (172, unchanged), Washington (171, up from 144), Michigan (159, unchanged), Virginia (147, up from 122), North Dakota (141, unchanged), Idaho (129, up from 57); New Mexico (112, unchanged); Massachusetts (110, up from 81); Colorado (106, unchanged), and Pennsylvania (109, up from 102).
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 6, 2010
Sincerely, Tags: chimpanzees animal research almagordo primates new mexico. This is a matter of human compassion to prevent the further suffering of animals that have already served this species in prior experiments. They deserve better and we are capable of providing them with better.
Critter News
DECEMBER 26, 2008
And the worst: Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arkansas, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, South Dakota, Wyoming You can check out the whole report on their web site.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2012
The ornithologist and author of Birds of New Mexico , Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey , was born there in 1863. *Assuming you don’t count the single-observer, sight report from Rochester in January of 1923. This is not Locust Grove’s first brush with ornithological fame. ……… a.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2018
Chaco Cultural National Historic Park, a World Heritage Site in New Mexico, teeters back and forth with ongoing lawsuits. Under fire for the last 30 years at varying degrees of effectiveness, the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is threatened again by salivating oil company execs and their political cronies.
10,000 Birds
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.
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 19, 2012
And please take a moment to visit their site and learn about the rescue they are helping , New Mexico Pets Alive! I would suggest ordering up a size though, as the shirt seemed to run a little small. You can shop from their website, www.jusani.com , or supporting retailers. until the end of June. A really great group!
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 9, 2011
Wolf Dog, is the story of Paco Sosa and his owner Bernadine’s journey to New Mexico to help him find his peace. The filmmakers have launched an IndieGoGo campaign to help raise money so they can finish the film.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2011
Their range of breeding is literally only very southern Wyoming to very northern New Mexico. Try hiking a Colorado 14,000 foot mountain and your chances of having these guys at your feet rise exponentially. Most REAL montane species like this finch are declining in overall population.
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2016
That’s why I can’t take owls to a lot of my education programs out here in New Mexico.”. “Ravens belong to the Devil,” wrote Monte Merrick. “If If you see an owl,” wrote Mikal Deese, “someone in your family is going to die.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2012
They are listed as sensitive in Oregon and Utah; a candidate for listing in Washington and a species of high concern by New Mexico Partners in Flight. With the help of Bluebird Trails and backyard birdhouses and maybe a change in logging practices in the West, we can continue to see an increase in Western Bluebirds out West.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Trinidad Colorado is located just a few miles north of the Colorado – New Mexico border, and home to the Trinidad Reservoir. Next week we will spend some time in New Mexico. With Wyoming and South Dakota in our rear view mirror, we look toward Colorado, and a hot spot I have been anxious to visit.
10,000 Birds
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.
Animal Person
DECEMBER 14, 2009
The imperfection comes at the end of the editorial with: "Earlier this year, New Mexico repealed its death penalty, joining 14 other states — and the District of Columbia — that do not allow it. There are also the many innocent people who have been executed, though that's an entirely different discussion.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Virginia (122), New Mexico (112); Texas (106); Colorado (106), and Pennsylvania (102). After those five, there are relative handful with over 100 species: North Carolina (172), Michigan (159), Arizona (155), Washington (144), North Dakota (141!),
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
photography hotspots (also birding hotspots) where the reader can put the book’s lessons into action; they include Bolsa Chica, California (above), Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, and my personal favorite, Nickerson Beach, Long Island. . “Bird Photography Hotspots,” presents ten U.S.
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2016
At one point, Hayward, in San Diego for a pelagic that turns out to be cancelled and desperate for bird #700, must choose between a Curlew Sandpiper on Plum Island and a Blue-footed Booby in New Mexico.
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2018
Johnson is not a birder or a naturalist; he was fly fishing to get his mind off the stress of working on the List Project, an advocacy organization he founded to aid Iraqis who had helped the U.S. government (Johnson had worked in Iraq for USAID, where he learned about his friends and colleagues problems first-hand).
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2020
in the usual places for such spillover: the southern tip of Texas and the mountains of southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico. This species, the Rose-throated Becard , is also a fairly common resident of the pine-oak forests of southwestern Mexico, where I live.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2018
After our brief trip thru the great state of Texas, we were headed back into New Mexico, a state I was quite excited to explore. I have been all around the western states, here and there, but never spent any time in New Mexico. Our next stop was another mutually agreed upon stop, Albuquerque New Mexico.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2021
The good news is that this summer central Mexico is experiencing its best rains since 2018. Even the American Southwest is benefitting from our newly-abundant monsoon rains, with Arizona and New Mexico now mostly out of the “exceptional drought” category. Down here, it’s green as far as the eye can see.
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