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    Texas/New Mexico Birding

    HI, I am planning a trip for me and my family through western Texas and Southern New Mexico this July and I was wondering if anyone had an advice on how and where I can pick up some specialty birds of that region. My family enjoys birds but aren’t serious birders like me so I need to work my...
  2. Canyon Towhee

    Canyon Towhee

    • bobsofpa
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    • canyon towhee melozone fusca new mexico usa
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: North America
  3. Eared Grebe, Nonbreeding

    Eared Grebe, Nonbreeding

    • bobsofpa
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    • eared grebe new mexico podiceps nigricollis usa
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: North America
  4. Canyon Towhee

    Canyon Towhee

    My lifer Canyon Towhee, seen at the Randall Davey Audubon Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
    • avesjohn
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    • canyon towhee melozone fusca new mexico usa
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  5. Canyon Towhee

    Canyon Towhee

    Quick post between spurts of data coding. Will catch up on browsing later. This was my last lifer of the New Mexico trip. A common and plain bird that used to be considered just a color variant of the California Towhee, but has now been split off into a species of its own. This one popped up...
    • Doc Duck
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    • canyon towhee melozone fusca new mexico usa
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: North America
  6. Canyon Towhee

    Canyon Towhee

    My first Canyon Towhee (lifer #473), seen on a juniper in the parking lot as soon as my mom and I exited the car at the Randall Davey Audubon Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
    • avesjohn
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    • canyon towhee melozone fusca new mexico usa
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  7. Landing

    Landing

    A Sandhill Crane prepares to land and roost for the night.
    • Jim Michael
    • Media item
    • bosque del apache new mexico sandhill crane
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: North America
  8. Sandhill Crane Landing

    Sandhill Crane Landing

    A Sandhill Crane lands at one of the crane ponds at Bosque del Apache, New Mexico.
    • Jim Michael
    • Media item
    • bosque del apache new mexico sandhill crane
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  9. Looking down

    Looking down

    One view from Sandia Crest, just outside Albuquerque in New Mexico
    • njlarsen
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    • albuquerque new mexico sandia crest usa
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Landscapes
  10. Gray-headed Junco

    Gray-headed Junco

    • njlarsen
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    • albuquerque dark-eyed junco junco hyemalis new mexico sandia crest usa
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: North America
  11. Vermilion Flycatcher young

    Vermilion Flycatcher young

    This could be a female, but the yellowish to salmon tones on the underside are supposed to say it is more likely to be a male in his second calender year. (At least I think so ;) )
    • njlarsen
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    • immature new mexico pyrocephalus rubinus rattlesnake springs usa
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: North America
  12. Vermillion Flycatcher male

    Vermillion Flycatcher male

    • njlarsen
    • Media item
    • male new mexico pyrocephalus rubinus rattlesnake springs usa
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: North America
  13. Black Phoebe

    Black Phoebe

    • njlarsen
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    • new mexico rattlesnake springs sayornis nigricans usa
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: North America
  14. Black-chinned Sparrow

    Black-chinned Sparrow

    It was easy enough to find but not easy to get close to. But still easier than the Gray Vireo!
    • njlarsen
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    • new mexico slaughter canyon spizella atrogularis usa
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: North America
  15. Phainopepla female

    Phainopepla female

    • njlarsen
    • Media item
    • female new mexico phainopepla nitens rattlesnake springs usa
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: North America
  16. Mountain Chickadee

    Mountain Chickadee

    This was not an easy catch among all these branches
    • njlarsen
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    • abq new mexico poecile gambeli sandia crest usa
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  17. Audubon's Warbler

    Audubon's Warbler

    Also known as Yellow-rumped Warbler ;)
    • njlarsen
    • Media item
    • abq new mexico sandia crest setophaga coronata usa
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  18. Lesser Prairie Chicken x2

    Lesser Prairie Chicken x2

    Sometimes the birds were aggressive towards each other, and sometimes they would stand side by side calling towards the perimeter of the lek, presumably towards females they hoped were out there
    • njlarsen
    • Media item
    • east of roswell new mexico tympanuchus pallidicinctus usa
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  19. Snow Geese (Lesser)

    Snow Geese (Lesser)

    Snow Geese (Lesser) (Chen caerulescens subsp. caerulescens) LIkely with a few Rosss Geese (Chen rossii) mixed in. Photographed in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, southern Socorro County, New Mexico, USA. Straddling the Rio Grande Valley with a lot of planted corn crops with...
    • Stanley Jones
    • Media item
    • bosque del apache national wildlife refuge chen caerulescens lesser new mexico snow geese socorro county usa
    • Comments: 24
    • Category: North America
  20. Loggerhead Shrike

    Loggerhead Shrike

    • njlarsen
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    • east of roswell lanius ludovicianus new mexico usa
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  21. Reused rubber

    Reused rubber

    This old tire functioned as a really good water station for lots of birds. I saw no bigger animals in the vicinity, but they may also have used it sometimes.
    • njlarsen
    • Media item
    • calamospiza melanocorys east of roswell lark bunting new mexico usa
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  22. Lark Sparrow

    Lark Sparrow

    • njlarsen
    • Media item
    • chondestes grammacus east of roswell new mexico usa
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: North America
  23. Lark Bunting flock

    Lark Bunting flock

    The largest flock we saw that morning was >200 birds, and many flocks around
    • njlarsen
    • Media item
    • calamospiza melanocorys east of roswell new mexico usa
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: North America
  24. Violet-green Swallow in its landscape

    Violet-green Swallow in its landscape

    This was near the entrance to Slaughter Canyon
    • njlarsen
    • Media item
    • carlsbad near slaughter canyon new mexico tachycineta thalassina usa
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  25. Red-shafted Flicker

    Red-shafted Flicker

    I saw plenty of these on this morning, but they all wanted to sit in the very top of the pines
    • njlarsen
    • Media item
    • colaptes auratus new mexico santa fe national forest usa
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: North America
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