City Nature Challenge ABQ
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City Nature Challenge is an annual international collaborative effort to search out and doc wildlife observations in and round city areas.
City Nature Challenge ABQ invitations everybody in Bernalillo, Sandoval, and Valencia counties to discover nature in and round your group and share your observations from April 29 to May 2, 2022. Help us compete in opposition to cities everywhere in the world and get your youngsters outdoors!
How to Participate
- Set up an account on iNaturalist.org or within the iNaturalist app
- Join the CNC ABQ 2022 Project (notice: kids beneath 13 want grownup approval to make an account, or create a shared class/household account)
- Take and submit your pictures of animals and their indicators (tracks, scat, feathers, and so forth.), crops, and fungi that you just discover through the problem.
- Help establish others’ observations, and have iNaturalist and its group enable you to, via May eighth.
Teachers!
Head to the City Nature Challenge Education Toolkit for steering on the right way to take part along with your class, and entry actions aligned to NGSS for all grade ranges. You can even use iNaturalist all college yr lengthy to get your college students and excited in being outdoor and searching carefully for species that dwell round them, from bugs, to birds, to beavers.
City Nature Challenge is an annual international collaborative effort to search out and doc wildlife observations in and round city areas, organized by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and California Academy of Sciences. Join nature fanatics worldwide in discovering the biodiversity in your space!
In-Person Events
The following occasions are affiliated with the Albuquerque City Nature Challenge
University of NM Geography Department
- April 29, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
- Bandelier East, UNM campus
Students within the GEOG2115 class (“Information Design in Science and Society,” taught by Dr. Yolanda Lin) can have an informational desk arrange outdoors to encourage UNM college students to take part.
UNM Event Information
Discovery Day: Cottonwood Forest Creatures
- April 30, 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
- Open Space Visitor Center, 6500 Coors Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87120
This pre-school aged youth program takes place contained in the Open Space Visitor Center the place contributors will make new discoveries concerning the world round them. The program consists of hands-on science, literacy, and artwork initiatives. Participants can even obtain a packet on the finish of the session with varied actions and pictures in order that the times discoveries can proceed at house. Different themes happen every session and should embody a brief tour outdoors. Program price is $5 per household.
Questions? Contact Ellie Althoff, Open Space Coordinator/Educator at (505) 768-4955 or ealthoff@cabq.gov
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City Nature Challenge on the San Pedro Library
- April 30, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
- 5600 Trumbull Ave SE, Albuquerque, NM 87108
San Pedro is teaming up with Friends of Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge to take part within the City Nature Challenge 2022, a pleasant competitors between city areas the world over to see which communities can take advantage of observations of nature. We might be observing and documenting the plant and animal life in and round San Pedro’s ABQ Backyard Refuge Pocket Garden with the iNaturalist digital app.
San Pedro Event Information
Gecko Discovery Hike
- April 30, 8 p.m.
- Piedras Marcadas Park (Coors and Eagle Ranch)
Come be a part of us to search for Turkish House Geckos on the west facet of Albuquerque! Bring a flashlight and your digicam! Observations might be entered into Inaturalist.org as a part of the City Nature Challenge!
No registration required. Contact: josh@ppcabq.com
Bosque Wild Hike
- May 1, 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
- Open Space Visitor Center, 6500 Coors Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87120
Join this volunteer-led hike and be taught concerning the pure and cultural historical past of the Bosque. This is a reasonably strenuous 2.5 mile guided tour. Please carry water, comfy sneakers, and costume for the climate. Don’t overlook your digicam and binoculars when you’ve acquired them!
Register: depps@cabq.gov or (505) 768-4950, or on the Visitor Center in individual
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