ABQ Backyard Refuge Program
@ABQbrp
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Share your space with wildlife! Download an introductory guide and certification workbook at https://t.co/kBIuVv7Ff3
Joined January 2021
Do you love wildlife watching? Plant a pollinator garden! You can help create a healthy habitat, whether a container garden on a balcony or an entire acre in your backyard. https://t.co/fQhp1Rtb0S Video: a white-lined sphinx moth feeds on a milkweed plant, Tom Koerner/USFWS
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Have you ever found a nest with eggs and no parents nearby? Or perhaps you startled a parent bird off a nest and worried that it might not return? What do you do? Find out in our Question of the Week:
allaboutbirds.org
Birds may leave their nest if they are scared off or if they need to feed. After they've been scared off, birds almost always return to their nest and resume incubating after the threat has passed....
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Olivia is amazing. Don’t miss this!
Did you know that there are over 1,000 species of bees in New Mexico and not all of them sting?! Olivia Carril shares her discoveries about the amazing bees of #NewMexico. 🐝 Watch ¡COLORES! Saturday at 4pm and stream anytime on the PBS App: https://t.co/98jL3qC4Ob
#Bees #Bee
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”in reshaping our thinking about dandelions or other so-called weeds, we might reshape our entire relationship with the living world” - Robin Wall Kimmerer
1/12 - EVER WONDERED WHY DANDELIONS ARE HATED SO MUCH? They’re considered “weeds” because they were a poor person resource and not having them was a status symbol. It starts in Europe...👇🧵
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While you’re at it, you can provide a shallow bowl in a shady spot for our lizard frenz too.
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The first planting of the ABQ Backyard Refuge Program demonstration garden at #valledeoronwr is in thanks to #ancestralLandsConservationCorps & #youthConservationCorps !
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Our partners @NMCommunityGeog & @UNM_GES are participating in @citnatchallenge again this year! You can join their team and help us collect data for our urban biodiversity map! https://t.co/IvYsETuPAD
@GeographyLane @DisasterYolanda
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UNM GES is participating in City Nature Challenge ABQ: 2022 Join our team! Check the standings and cheer us on here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-abq-teams-2022
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Burqueños! Get out there and document urban nature this weekend. Use iNaturalist to submit observations of any living being except domesticated animals and humans! @citnatchallenge
It's #CityNatureChallengeABQ against #Phoenix and #ElPaso ! Let's do this, Bernalillo, Sandoval, and Valencia counties. You'll be able to watch the rankings here once we get started on Friday: https://t.co/3r9W1I1901
@citnatchallenge #iNaturalist #CityNatureChallenge
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The @ABQbrp is increasing the presence of wildlife in the city by empowering residents to create sanctuaries for the living creatures who are native to the land. https://t.co/BFI97IXjWU
dailylobo.com
When one thinks of a city, wildlife is likely to be the last thing in the mind’s image. But the Albuquerque Backyard Refuge program aims to change that by increasing the presence of wildlife in the...
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Birds need water when it is cold! Take some hot water out to melt the ice and refresh your bird bath whenever you can during the deep cold that’s upon us. #backyardhabitat #nmwx #urbanWildlife #cityNature @ABQcitynature
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This is a great guide to keeping your backyard refuge healthy this winter!
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A cloud of Bushtits is gleaning insects in the trees in the newly certified habitat at Plants of the Southwest-Albuquerque #citynature @ABQcitynature #backyardhabitat
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Growing habitat in your yard is an action you can take to give our wild neighbors time and space for adapting to our changing climate while making our city more resilient. https://t.co/0yPa4SQg7W
@CABQParks @CABQEHD @NMCommunityGeog
Climate change got you down? Read TNC Chief Scientist @KHayhoe's @TIME Magazine op-ed on finding hope in taking action. https://t.co/Qedg4FdoAO
#ClimateAction
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Researchers are increasingly working with city planners, landscape architects and urban wildlife managers to make cities part of the solution to the global biodiversity crisis. https://t.co/s6PuMhnEFJ
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Cities have long been considered species deserts, devoid of wildlife beyond pigeons and squirrels. But with animals such as snowy owls, otters and bobcats now appearing in urban areas, scientists are...
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Fostering habitat fosters biodiversity and you can start in your backyard!
With animals such as snowy owls, otters and bobcats now appearing in urban areas, scientists are recognizing that cities can play a significant role in fostering biodiversity. https://t.co/s6PuMhnEFJ
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Make sure when we plan new parks & natural spaces we meet people where they are, bring in the local community (and their leaders) to create space for how they enjoy nature. -Dr. Mamie Parker #OnTheirWings #BlackBirdersWeek2021
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visit the CNC ABQ website for more details:
We just challenged one of the biggest @UNM departments (Biology) to, um … a Biology contest <gulp> Now calling all alumni, friends, and supporters of Geography to join our cause: 2021 City Nature Challenge @abqcitynature.
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