Birding related links for New Mexico

Birding Resources

• Checklist of New Mexican Birds (in two parts, two pages), and another at BiologyBase.com
• New Mexico Birding Books  includes field guides and others
• New Mexico Breeding Bird Atlas Project
• Several local New Mexico area checklists are available from the Northern Prairie Science Center
• The Centennial Museum of the University of Texas at El Paso
• Dick and Jean Hoffman's Eddy County (near Carlsbad) trip report (check out the rest of their excellent site as well)
• John Shipman has some birding related information that includes not just New Mexico. He also reviews New Mexican eating places (the other hobby of many birders)
• Africanized bees are also in the state, so don't play with any bees you find

Places to Bird

• National Park Service Information on NM Locations:
• Aztec Ruins National Monument
• Bandelier National Monument
• Capulin Volcano National Monument
• Carlsbad Caverns National Park
• Chaco Culture National Historic Park
• El Malpais National Monument (bird checklist from USNPS)
• El Morro National Monument
• Fort Union National Monument
• Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (bird checklist from USNPS)
• Pecos National Historical Park
• Petroglyph National Monument
• Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
• White Sands National Monument (bird checklist from USNPS)
• Bureau of Land Management New Mexico offices
• The Nature Conservancy New Mexico Chapter
• Where do you want to go birding website for New Mexico has links to more locations
• Maxwell National Wildlife Refuge
• Randall Davey Audubon Center
• Hyde Memorial State Park
• Cibola National Forest
• Rio Grande Nature Center State Park
• Hawk Watch International Manzano Fall Migration Site
• Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge - The Birding Hotspot - for winter Whooping Cranes
• Elephant Butte State Park
• Caballo Lake State Park
• Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge
• Gila National Forest
• Gila Riparian Preserve - The Nature Conservancy

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Organizations of Interest for New Mexico Birding

• New Mexico Ornithological Society
• Friends of Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
• Central New Mexico Audubon Society
• New Mexico State Department of Game and Fish
• New Mexico State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
• New Mexico Season Report
• Audubon Society in New Mexico

Also of Interest

• New Mexico weather from Nationa Weather Service
• Medicinal Plant Images from the the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Other New Mexican Wildlife

• New Mexican Reptiles and Amphibians (a checklist)
• New Mexican Butterflies from Northern Prairie Science Center
• New Mexican Moths from Northern Prairie Science Center

Nearly New Mexico

• Rio Grande Valley Bird Observatory
• Centennial Museum of the University of Texas at El Paso includes information on south-central New Mexico
• Texas Ornithological Society
• Harlingen (Rio Grande Valley - Texas,) check their nature tourism section
• El Paso Audubon Society
• Migration in Texas

Other Birding Resources

• BIRDNET, the website of the Ornithological Council provides information on and links to all aspects of birds
• BiologyBase Bird Stuff page