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Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
San Antonio
Bosque del Apache — "Woods of the Apache" — sprawls across 57,000 acres of the middle Rio Grande Valley, world-renowned for its winter sandhill crane spectacle but quietly extraordinary for summer hummingbird watching. The visitor center's small native pollinator garden is a reliable spot for close-range views of Black-chinned and Broad-tailed Hummingbirds during the breeding season, while the refuge's 12-mile tour loop opens onto wetlands, bosque, and desert scrub habitats where late summer Rufous migrants stop to refuel. Sunrise here, with the Magdalena Mountains catching first light and the chorus of birdsong rising from the cottonwoods, is one of the great quiet pleasures of New Mexico birding.
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