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1 Alameda/Rio Grande Open Space 4 Elena Gallegos Open Space Northern pintail/J.N. Stuart Located adjacent to the Rio Grande Bosque, Tingley Beach offers wildlife watching, paths for running and walking, and boating opportunities. Northern shoveler, canvasback, ring-necked duck, ruddy duck, pied-billed grebe, black-crowned night-heron, belted kingfisher www.cabq.gov/culturalservices/biopark/tingley Bosque trail/City of Albuquerque Bosque trail/City of Elena Gallegos trail/City of Albuquerque Elena Gallegos trail/City of Valle de Oro National Wildlife From the Paseo del Bosque trail ducks, geese and This 640-acre park is a gem in the Open 7 other wildlife can be viewed enjoying the Alameda Space system. At an elevation of 6,500 Refuge Wetland. This constructed wetland is intended to feet, the park supports a piñon-juniper replicate the natural wetlands that historically habitat that includes chamisa, Apache occupied the floodplain of the Rio Grande. plume, scrub oak, cane cholla cactus, blue grama grass, bear Yellow-rumped warbler, mallard, bald grass, and soapweed eagle, downy woodpecker, ruby-crowned yucca. kinglet, blue grosbeak Black-chinned www.cabq.gov/parksandrecreation/open-space/ hummingbird, Gambel’s lands/rio-grande-valley-state-park quail, Woodhouse's Open Space Visitors Center scrub-jay, northern 2 mockingbird, canyon towhee, white-crowned White-faced ibis/USFWS sparrow, Scott’s oriole White-crowned sparrow/USFWS Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge is the www.cabq.gov/parksandrecreation/open-space/ Southwest’s first urban wildlife refuge. It serves as lands/elena-gallegos-open-space an urban oasis for both wildlife and people. The refuge offers a unique environmental education and recreation opportunity in a highly populated area 5 Rio Grande Nature Center State while promoting a wildlife conservation message. Park Bald eagle, Canada goose, Swainson’s hawk, killdeer, American kestrel, Say’s phoebe, cliff swallow, common black-hawk Open Space Visitors Center/City of Albuquerque Center/City of Open Space Visitors www.fws.gov/refuge/valle_de_oro/ The Open Space Visitor Center features exhibits interpreting natural and cultural resources, an art University of New Mexico Duck gallery, agricultural fields that draw a variety of 8 wildlife and stunning views of the Sandia Mountains. Pond Sandhill crane, northern harrier, mourning dove, American kestrel, lesser goldfinch,
house finch Center/NM State Parks Visitor www.cabq.gov/parksandrecreation/open-space/ Located on the central Rio Grande flyway, Rio open-space-visitor-center Grande Nature Center State Park offers excellent bird watching throughout the year. Visitors can observe about 250 different species, including 3 Petroglyph National Monument roadrunners and wood ducks. Cinnamon teal, green-winged teal, sandhill crane, greater roadrunner, black phoebe,
white-breasted nuthatch, summer tanager Male bushtit/USFWS Located in the middle of the University of New www.emnrd.state.nm.us/spd/riograndenaturecente Mexico campus, the duck pond serves as a major rstatepark.html gathering place on campus for students and visitors alike, with wildlife-watching opportunities for all ages. Species of note: Cooper’s hawk, Petroglyph views/City of Albuquerque Petroglyph views/City of ladder-backed woodpecker, barn swallow, Petroglyph National Monument has more to offer bushtit, American robin than the cultural resources for which it is known. www.unm.edu Various types of wildlife utilize this narrow corridor. The Albuquerque Urban Bird Coalition is a group of Red-tailed hawk, scaled quail, rock wren, non-profit organizations and government agencies canyon wren, crissal thrasher, working to celebrate and conserve migratory & resident black-throated sparrow birds through education, hazard reductions, citizen science, and habitat improvements. www.nps.gov/petr/index.htm Birdwatching/USFWS