This post provides an extended list of the top-featured monthly posts. These other posts are sorted by date, with the most recent in the list being first. They can be a mix of different categories (e.g., events, field trips, or articles written by professional nature journalists, local authors, or chapter members).
Other Recent Featured Posts
How Dinosaurs Shrank and Became Birds
Modern birds appeared to emerge in a snap of evolutionary time. But new research illuminates the long series of evolutionary changes that made the transformation possible. Modern birds descended from a group of two-legged dinosaurs known as theropods, whose members include the towering Tyrannosaurus rex and the smaller velociraptors. The theropods most closely related to… Continue Reading … » » »
Tiny fossil reveals what happened to birds after dinosaurs went extinct
Tiny fossil reveals what happened to birds after the dinosaurs The fossils of a tiny bird found on Native American land in New Mexico are giving scientists big new ideas about what happened after most dinosaurs went extinct. The 62-million-year-old mousebird suggests that, after the great dino die-off, birds rebounded and diversified rapidly, setting the… Continue Reading … » » »
2016 Los Alamos Christmas Bird Count Report
After much persistent effort, Joe Fitzgibbon was able to acquire and contribute to the Sangre de Cristo Audubon Society website the eight-page final report for the 2016 Los Alamos Christmas Bird Count by Mouser Williams. According to Joe, Mouser Williams was the organizer, driving force, coordinator, and compiler of the Los Alamos Christmas Bird Count… Continue Reading … » » »
So Long, Farewell
The world has changed. Do we mourn? Or love what’s still here? It’s a crisp, late fall morning in Santa Fe. Larry Rasmussen, a Lutheran lay minister, and I sit side-by-side at his kitchen table. Sometimes we look at one another. But mostly we both look out the picture window. The sky is an iconic… Continue Reading … » » »
Hummingbirds Return to New Mexico!
They’re Back! Hummingbirds Return to New Mexico! This is the week when just a few reports of hummingbirds becomes a chorus of sightings. Many birders swear that hummingbirds return on April 15th, or so. It’s true that many of you see a hummingbird for the first time in the middle of April but we’ve had… Continue Reading … » » »