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The Festival of the Cranes is sponsored by The Friends of the Bosque del Apache NWR, the City of Socorro, NM and The Bosque del Apache NWR
Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
San Antonio, New Mexico
Nov 2012
Welcome to the Festival of the Cranes Nov 15-20, 2011
Hello Friends & Visitors! Welcome to our Annual Festival of the Cranes at the Bosque del Apache NWR near Socorro, NM. The Festival welcomes many thousands of sandhill cranes who make the Refuge their winter home, and have come here for centuries. We'll try to give you a glimpse of the fun and excitement of over 100 events including, tours, classes, lectures, workshops and more at the Festival of the Cranes
For other news and a full list of the events,
please check the Festival of the Cranes web site:
Friends of the Bosque del Apache NWR web site is an extensive site with information on the Refuge, birding lists and information about the Friends and how you can join us!
The Friends of the Bosque exist to support the Refuge and protect this critical and beautiful habitat for the birds and wildlife who rely on it for their survival.
Thank You!
Blog Archive
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- End of Festival 2010
- Leigh Ann Vradenburg, Executive director Friends o...
- Hawks Aloft Inc. Elizabeth and Chuck (and friend)
- a few rare birds seen festival of the cranes
- Lorraine McInnes Intrepid Rattlesnake Researcher B...
- Services and Donations for Bob Merkel
- Sevilleta Natiional Wildlife Refuge Jim and Pat Ni...
- Wildlife Rescue New Mexico Inc
- Sunrise Nov 20
- Santa fe Raptor Center ambassador
- Santa Fe Raptor Center Laura Swartz
- Jerry Goffe, vice President of the Friends of the ...
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- pink light sandhill cranes
- more Art Show participants - a great variety!
- official f&w bird count nov 19, 2010
- Art show textiles and more
- More and more from the Art Show and Fish and Wildlife
- Identifying collars for geese - Migration
- some of the 24,000 ducks (a few days later, there ...
- North Farm loop yesterdaythousands of snow geese!
- Festival is in full swing.. 7,000 sandhills, puffs...
- a friend lost ... a sad day
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- sunset pink and blues, thousands of sandhills land...
- migration patterns changed older population of sno...
- details on snow goose populations are astounding. ...
- 7,ooo cranes new count tomorrow promised by f&w gr...
- 40 sandhills hundreds of ducks big redtail while c...
- trees in Albuquerque are still yellow gold red ......
- am heading for festival 12 am from santa fe will r...
- We've had a report of 2 Mississippi Kites at the F...
- YouTube videoWe will have much better videos durin...
- Festival Coordinatior Robyn Harrison (left) and Fr...
- OK- first off- the bird count-There are more birds...
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The Festival of the Cranes is sponsored by The Friends of the Bosque del Apache NWR, the City of Socorro, NM and The Bosque del Apache NWR
2 comments:
these incomplete tidbit articles are of little value; love to hear updates about the refuge but if you want to post cant you please put up at least a full paragraph?
Yes, sorry- I was having problems posting as the RV place did not have wifi and I was using my android phone and should have spent more time doing the posts, but was limited in time with all the workshops and everything!'
My next blog post reads "migration patterns changed older population of snow geese now, but a very large population./ android phone limits text ..apologies"
I was writing about a lecture/workshop by John Vradenburg, senior biologist at BdA. I'll ask him if he will give me a lot of the content of the 2 hour talk and slide show which was called Snow Goose Ecology, and I will post a link to that when available (Friends' web site at FriendsoftheBosque.org)
He said they were seeing major shifts in traditional migration patterns; and are seeing a current population of 6-9 million birds with some estimates of up to 20 mil (light geese 1982, there were 1.7 mil) One of the problems is that they are not seeing many juveniles, and the average age of light geese is 12-15 years old with some banded birds being 27 years old. They are seeing a very low gosling survival, but yet a high population which is affecting the health of the tundra, thus, there is a lot of discussion of what needs to be done.
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