Audubon Southwest

06/04/2026

🌈 🐦 Let’s Go Birding Together! Celebrate Pride Month with us and Feminist Bird Club - Albuquerque/Santa Fe, New Mexico Chapter for our FREE Pride Bird Walk!

🗓️June 21 ⏰ 8:30-10:30 a.m.
📍 Randall Davey Audubon Center in Santa Fe

Walk through native plant gardens, around the historic Randall Davey home, and into the pinyon and juniper of the Canyon Preserve, all while learning to find and identify birds! No experience is necessary.

✨ RSVP here: https://bit.ly/3QoOMs2

*Accessibility note: Parts of this trip are wheelchair accessible on brick and flagstone and paved walkways. Benches are available throughout the property if needed.

05/27/2026

Spend your morning outside with us on Friday, May 29, at Nature Story Time! 🍃 Explore a different nature theme each month through storybooks, music, movement, and hands-on activities. Join us at the Randall Davey Audubon Center & Sanctuary on the last Friday of the month, May through October, under the trees by the Nature Discovery Area.

This program is ideal for children ages one to five and their caregivers, and all ages are welcome!

Register at 👉 https://buff.ly/MKBobDM.

05/20/2026

🐦 Audubon Southwest hosted the Lower Gila River Forum at the Rio Salado Audubon Center in Phoenix to discuss land and water issues in the Lower Gila River, including funding needs, barriers to implementing more projects, and on-the-ground restoration work.

👉 Learn more: https://www.audubon.org/southwest/news/working-together-lower-gila-river-corridor

05/20/2026

[🔊 SOUND ON 🔊] Don't take it from us, campers say our Summer Camp is the best! 💫
🌞 Join us for Summer Camp 2026 at the Randall Davey Audubon Center!
💚 Spaces available for ages 8 to 12 from June 1 to July 31.
🖊 Register online now! 👉 https://bit.ly/NMcampfun

Campers will get to explore the Santa Fe Watershed, dissect owl pellets, compete in the Great Biomimicry Challenge, play on the Treehouse, and more!

05/18/2026

American White Pelican, American Coot, Seagulls, Ruddy Duck, and Yuma Ridgway’s Rail are just some of the numerous bird species that rely on the Ciénega de Santa Clara, a lush wetland just across the border in Mexico.

05/15/2026

With Arizona lawmakers and the Governor negotiating the state budget for the next fiscal year, a new statewide poll delivers an unambiguous signal from voters. They overwhelmingly support creating a Colorado River Protection Fund by a margin of more than 10-to-1. Read more: https://buff.ly/cNcxatC

05/15/2026

We live in a rapidly changing and increasingly complex world and staying centered can feel more challenging by the day. Birding may be the answer to help lift spirits and inspire hope.
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A reflection on birding, mental health, and finding belonging in the natural world.

05/14/2026

Summer research season is approaching quickly, and that means it's time to welcome our 2026 cohort of Appleton-Whittell Research Fellows! This year, we're excited to be supporting three early career scientists, each studying at Arizona universities and focusing on questions that are critical to our work of protecting birds and their habitats on the Research Ranch and beyond.

Learn more about our 2026 fellows at the link below, and stay tuned for more opportunities to explore their work as the field season progresses!

https://www.audubon.org/southwest/news/chasing-science

📸 2026 Research Fellow Alexia Markoutsis. Photo: Northern Arizona University Ecological Restoration Institute

Introducing our 2026 Appleton-Whittell Research Fellows

05/14/2026

The Sagrado presents the 10th Annual Mujeres del Desierto Exhibition—a decade of women of the Southwest coming together to heal, create, and speak truth through art. Join us for an evening of art, music, food, and collective spirit—25+ artists, diverse voices, one sacred gathering.

🗓️ May 23
⏰ 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
📍 Rio Salado Audubon Center

05/14/2026

The Colorado River Delta—with its marshes and lagoons, back waters and mudflats—once spanned across 2 million acres in the Upper Gulf of California. Today, at 44,000 acres, the Ciénega de Santa Clara is a remnant of what once was. And still, hundreds of thousands of birds rely on it.
Learn more 👉 https://bit.ly/ShorebirdColoradoRiverDelta