Using the Merlin Birding App

Western New Mexico University 1000 West College Avenue, Silver City, New Mexico

Learn to use Merlin, a free phone app from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, to help identify birds by location, sight, and sound. Heidi Erstad will be your guide. The class will be held in Harlan Hall, Room 135 @ WNMU. For beginning and casual birders. Limited to 30 participants! RSVP to swnmaudubon@gmail.com (not FB

The Big Sit – Birding Challenge

Cliff Cliff, NM

Join us at the Iron Bridge overlooking the Gila River for some relaxed sit-down birding! The Big Sit is a family-friendly, semi-competitive, stationary birding event where bird-enthusiasts around the world identify as many bird species as possible from a 17' diameter circle. People will be participating all over the world! Bird lovers of all backgrounds