Future drought will likely change large migratory bird patterns to New Mexico

Future drought will likely change large migratory bird patterns to New Mexico

Snow geese migrating south above at the Bosque Del Apache Wildlife Refuge on Nov. 9, 2021. (Danielle Prokop / Source NM)If you live in the Rio Grande Valley, you have probably heard heard the strange croaks of the sandhill crane or the honk of the Ross’s goose overhead when out for a walk along the river. That’s because, in the fall and winter, tens of thousands of large migratory geese, cranes, and other water fowl nesting in Alaska, Canada, an…