Albuquerque runs along the Rio Grande in the high desert under the Sandia Mountains, and the river’s cottonwood forest, the bosque, is the wild heart of it. Sandhill cranes and snow geese winter there by the thousands, porcupines and beavers work the woods, and roadrunners and black-chinned hummingbirds handle the desert edges. Up in the Sandias just east of town, the terrain climbs fast into pine forest with black bears and mule deer.
Everything below is pulled live from recent research-grade observations near Albuquerque. Browse by group, explore the map, and identify what you find with Huck.
48,581
recent observations
30
species listed
15
birds
7
plants
4
insects & arthropods
Naturalists have logged 48,581 research-grade observations across the 30 most-recorded species near Albuquerque. The most frequently seen is the Greater Roadrunner, with 3,431 recorded sightings.
Birds account for the largest share of what gets recorded there (15 of the species listed here), followed by plants (7).