Conservation in New Mexico
New Mexico is part of the Central Flyway and provides important winter habitat for waterfowl that are produced in the Prairie Pothole Region of Canada and the northern United States. In some years, New Mexico has the potential to winter good numbers of mallards, pintails, wigeon, and green-winged teal. Conservation partners have been working diligently to ensure that waterfowl habitat in the Rio Grande Valley is both abundant and healthy. DU has worked to conserve over 3,000 acres of waterfowl habitat throughout New Mexico including several recent conservation projects on Bosque del Apache NWR. Our goal is to perpetually secure habitat and the future of New Mexico as an important wintering area for migratory waterfowl in North America. Your support of DU will help us achieve that goal.
Ducks Unlimited and Partners Restore the Rio Grande Valley, Increase Wildlife Habitat
Ducks in Alberta are beginning to feel an itch. But it's not feather mites, it's the approach of fall. Mallards, wigeon, gadwall, and other prairie-nesting waterfowl have toughed out yet another challenging breeding season in Canada's western prairie. With continued below-average precipitation and spring wetland abundance, Southern Alberta's duck crop certainly wasn't bumper. But as the last of the broods begin to realize what those wing feathers are for, and the drakes don their better-looking plumage, they will have something to look forward to. Conservation partners in New Mexico have been working diligently to ensure that the habitat that greets these birds in the Rio Grande Valley is both abundant and healthy...
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