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In summer the area is hot but many water birds can be found, including such New Mexico rarities as the least bittern and occasionally the little blue heron. Late November to late February is the best time for large numbers of birds, typically over 10,000 sandhill cranes and over 20,000 Ross's and snow geese. An annual 'festival of the cranes ...
The Bernardo Unit covers 1,700 acres (690 ha), and is designed to provide a winter habitat for waterfowl and sandhill cranes. It is located to the east of I-25 on U.S. 60. [ 4 ] Each year corn, alfalfa, winter wheat and milo are grown on about 450 acres (180 ha) to provide food, and in the fall several fields are flooded to provide resting areas.
The Legislative Council Study Committee on Sandhill Cranes met Aug. 1. The group is charged with offering ideas to reduce crane-caused crop damage.
Songbirds can be seen in the spring, especially May. In the summer months the refuge is home to many marsh and shorebirds. In the fall there are raptor migrations. Waterfowl concentrations rise in the winter. While some species such as the sandhill crane can number in the thousands, others have been spotted only on rare occasions.
One of only two kinds of cranes in North America, sandhill cranes converge on central Nebraska's Platte River to rest as they head to breeding grounds farther north in Canada, Alaska, and Siberia ...
A committee on sandhill cranes will meet Wednesday to discuss its findings and potential bills to assist farmers with crane-caused crop damage.
The sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia. The common name of this bird refers to their habitat such as the Platte River, on the edge of Nebraska's Sandhills on the American Great Plains. Sandhill cranes are known to frequent the edges of bodies of water.
Sandhill cranes wintering in southern Arizona are the "single best wildlife viewing experience" in the state, one official said. Thousands of Sandhill cranes will migrate to Arizona this winter ...