The Black Range Naturalist
This natural history journal is provided free of charge for your personal use. Now in its nineth year the BRN is published periodically, generally on a quarterly basis. All issues of the BRN can be read on-line or downloaded as a .pdf document. The latest issue is often available as a flip-page document.
THE COVER TO THE LEFT IS A LINK TO A FLIP-PAGE FILE OF OUR LATEST ISSUE. Once open you can read the issue like a magazine on-line, download the issue as a .pdf, share the issue (via social media links, a URL, or a QR code), search within the issue, and copy or print a specific range of pages. The April 2026 issue includes the following material: Lac and Creosote - Northern Cardinal Nesting - A Few More Odonata, The 2024 Field Season - Odonata Updates - The Glow of a Tanager - New Exhibits at the Hillsboro Natural History Museum - Two Stamens, Menodora scabra - Orange Flying Beetles - Pleistocene Vertebrates - Egg Mass on Littleleaf Sumac and Datana perspicua - Then and Now, As Seen in Maps - Exuvium - Sora in Kingston - Spine-tipped Dancer Field Verification - Acrolophus kearfotti - Hunting and Gathering, Of Poults and Pineseeds - Identifying Mammals on Wildlife Cameras - Desert Stalked Puffball, Battarrea phalloides - Updates and Tidbits - Bats - Blister Beetles and Cantharidin - Humans and the Rest of Nature - Sex - Weather - Monarchs - White-lined Sphinx Moths -Social Learning in Birds - Evolutionary Processes - Fluorescent Pigmentation in Long-eared Owls - Dust Storms - Charles Wright and a Cuban Anole - Woodrats and Venom - Mines of the Black Range - Rio Grande Rift - Monsoon Rainfall in Hillsboro - Giant Water Scavenger Beetle (Hydrophilus species), Oviposition/ Reproduction/Foraging Notes - What People are Reading and Listening To - Rabb Park Trail Update - Cooperative National Geologic Map - Records of Vivid Dancer from the Black Range in Grant and Sierra Counties, New Mexico - Seepwillow, A Wasp Magnet - Aurora Borealis - Results of the 2025 Hillsboro Christmas Bird Count - Bird Cam Images of Sphinx Moth
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