Birds of a feather Oct 9, 2021

Birds of a feather

For World Migratory Bird Day, we"ve journeyed down to Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in southern New Mexico to join a group of sandhill cranes and their mallard duck friends as they feed in shallow water. Each year beginning in late October, this 57,000-acre refuge becomes the winter home to tens of thousands of migratory birds including sandhill cranes and various species of geese and ducks who travel from as far away as Alaska and Siberia to hunker down in warmer climes. They stay until late February when they begin their journey back north to their summer homes.

© Cathy & Gordon Illg/Jaynes Gallery/DanitaDelimont.com

palette

Today in History

Oct 9, 2018A history of Vinland
Oct 9, 2020Falling for Tennessee
Oct 9, 2022Earth Science Week
Oct 9, 2023Indigenous Peoples Day
Oct 9, 2024Aspens in the White River National Forest, Colorado
Oct 9, 2025Space Week isnt over yet!

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Oct 14, 2022Río Arazas in Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, Spain
Jun 9, 2019Crown Fountain by Jume Plensa at Millennium Park in Chicago
Apr 4, 2023Roman bridge of Córdoba, Spain
Oct 23, 2022Mute swan
Apr 2, 2020Pascua Florida Day
Dec 5, 2023Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau castles, Bavaria, Germany
Jun 21, 2023Summer solstice
Dec 20, 2021Ministry of Fun Santa School
Jan 6, 2023Black Fell in England s Lake District
May 26, 2018Honoring the first American woman in space
Jan 24, 2020Sunlight sets Iceland s Eyjafjallajökull aglow
Feb 23, 2023The lights of Paris
Dec 24, 2021Smoking nights in Austria
Aug 19, 2021Happy World Photography Day!
Oct 6, 2022International Geodiversity Day
Oct 8, 2023World Octopus Day
Feb 23, 2022Point Reyes National Seashore
Aug 24, 2021Surf s always up in Paia
Jul 14, 2019Nesting season for the leatherbacks
Dec 30, 2022White Desert National Park, Egypt
Nov 7, 2020National Bison Day
Sep 1, 2021It s National Mushroom Month!
Jun 12, 2018Celebrating Helsinki’s birthday at the Kiasma Museum
Sep 15, 2023National Hispanic Heritage Month
Jul 14, 2018Does this shark have an Irish accent?
Aug 6, 2022San Francisco Bay salt flats
May 25, 2022The Alhambra in Granada, Spain
Jul 7, 2020Mercury in retrograde
Jun 24, 2024Kelimutu, Flores, Indonesia
Aug 10, 2020Kings of the Kalahari