Plan a winter trip to Bosque Del Apache NWF

Sunrise at Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge - 3 hours north of El Paso, by Rick LoBello
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At the El Paso Zoo a male Sandhill Crane named Frazier lives on the north side of the American Lands Exhibit along with a pair of javelinas and a small colony of bolson tortoises. Frazier is one of nearly 10,000 Sandhill Cranes living within a three hour drive of El Paso. You could say that he is a local “Ambassador for Birds of the North”. Most sand hill cranes live in the far northern and Arctic regions of the continent during the greater part of the year. They migrate south to our warmer climes during the months of November to February.

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