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Sangre de Cristo Audubon Society

Santa Fe & Northern New Mexico

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Sangre de Cristo mountains over Santa Fe

Welcome to the Sangre de Cristo Audubon Society

We are a recognized chapter of the National Audubon Society, with a membership region that covers most of north-central New Mexico and includes Santa Fe, Taos, Los Alamos, Las Vegas and many other communities. We take our name from the iconic Sangre de Cristo Mountains, which extend from the Colorado border to just south of Santa Fe. Habitats within our region range from riparian areas along the Rio Grande, Pecos and Canadian rivers to the short-grass prairie of eastern New Mexico and forested mountains that in places rise above timberline to over 13,000 feet.
As part of one of the nation’s oldest and most effective science-based environmental organizations, we focus on educating the public and advocating for a wide variety of conservation issues that will help preserve diverse species and their habitats for decades to come.
We recognize that Sangre de Cristo Audubon Society represents a landscape that has been occupied for millennia by peoples of diverse cultural backgrounds. We honor that diversity and believe that just as we strive to protect biodiversity, we must include and respect the many peoples and cultures that call northern New Mexico home.

Conservation in Focus

Audubon Leadership Conference 2025 Coming in July

The next Audubon Leadership Conference is scheduled for July 17-20, 2025, in Montreal, Canada. This out-of-country location reflects Audubon’s shift to a hemispheric approach to conservation, and the conference will be a gathering of leaders from across Audubon’s community of staff, partners, and campus and community chapters. The conference is designed to connect conservation leaders around the hemisphere with each other in an environment that facilitates learning and innovation.

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Field Trips

Upper Los Alamos Canyon

Saturday, May 24, 2025

Leader: René Laubach

We will walk 3.8 miles round-trip to Los Alamos Canyon Reservoir and back. The service-road grade is fairly easy and permits good group viewing of many types of birds in this scenic mountain canyon.

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Pecos Monastery — Field Trip Report

Sixteen chapter members enjoyed a beautiful spring morning on Saturday, May 17, 2025, for a leisurely birding walk around the Monastery grounds.  Bird activity was fairly good, and we were rewarded with views and songs of many summer birds and a few lingering migrants….

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