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February has brought reports of flocks of red-winged blackbirds to Northern New Mexico. These stocky birds are one of the most numerous in North America and commonly flock in large numbers in ...
New Mexico Tech/SWNS “It’s basically if we learn how they, how these birds, they manage your energy between themselves, we can apply them into the future aviation industry to save more energy ...
Birds passing through New Mexico during migration season. Migration season is in full swing, with up to 10 million birds passing through in a single night. Here’s how you can help keep them safe.
Researchers are scrambling to explain why hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of birds were suddenly being found dead across wide swaths of New Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska, Arizona and Texas in ...
[1/2] A view of a taxidermy bird drone for wildlife monitoring developed by researchers at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, New Mexico, U.S. March 22, 2023.
Dead birds have also been reported in Colorado, Texas and Mexico. Martha Desmond, a professor at New Mexico State University’s department of fish, wildlife and conservation ecology, called the ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new report paints a bleak picture for wild birds. According to the North American Bird Conservation Initiative, 70 species have lost more than half their breeding ...
ALBUQUERQUE — Huge numbers of migratory birds are dropping dead around New Mexico as scientists scramble to determine what is triggering one of the Southwest’s largest bird die-offs in recent ...
New Mexico researchers develop wildlife observation drones from dead birds The research team at New Mexico Tech has constructed and tested pheasant, mallard duck and pigeon drones and robots.