Southwest New Mexico
Silver City (505) 538- 3785.
Habitat: Cottonwood woodland with box elder.
Location: From the Silver City/Grant County Visitor Center on NM90 (Hudson St.), the park can be accessed from the parking lot via a footbridge.
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Southwest New Mexico |
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Silver City (505) 538- 3785. |
| Once the main street of Silver City in the late
1800s, this unique park was created by a series of floods in
the early 1900s. It offers pleasant birding near historic downtown
Silver City. The Visitor Center has feeders. Ladder-backed Woodpecker
(R); Black-chinned Hummingbird, Cassin's and Western Kingbirds,
Summer Tanager and Bullock's Oriole (S); Townsend's Solitaire
(W); and Cedar Waxwing, Warbling Vireo, Western Tanager and Cassin's
Finch (M). Habitat: Cottonwood woodland with box elder. Location: From the Silver City/Grant County Visitor Center on NM90 (Hudson St.), the park can be accessed from the parking lot via a footbridge. |
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