Urban Wildlife in Albuquerque

Check out this video of Zoë Rossman discussing the vibrant and diverse wildlife in Albuquerque, New Mexico!

The City Nature Challenge is an annual competition among hundreds of international cities to increase awareness of urban biodiversity. Last year’s challenge totaled 1,694,877 observations, 50,176+ species, and 67,220 participants across 450+ cities worldwide. Check if your city is participating in this year’s challenge! If not, join the global project this year and sign-up your city to participate in 2024’s challenge!

This year’s challenge is active from April 28 – May 1, 2023. All iNaturalist observations posted within a participating city will automatically count for the challenge. We will post a reminder in late April, so get ready to record as many iNaturalist observations as possible!

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Olivia Weklar

Graduate Student at New York University

Olivia is a graduate student in Kristin's lab at NYU. She studies the impacts of urbanization on the diet and gut microbiome of birds!

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