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unusual facts about Chihuahuan Desert


Aphaenogaster cockerelli

In the Chihuahuan Desert, Aphaenogaster cockerelli competes for resources with another seed-eating ant species, the red harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus).


American Dusky Flycatcher

As non-breeding residents in the south of their migration range, they are passage migrants over the deserts of the southwest US, the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan Deserts, where they make their stops along the flyway.

Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge

With the Rocky Mountains to the west, the Great Plains to the east, and the Chihuahuan Desert to the south, Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge encompasses a diversity of habitats.

Liocranid sac spider

Two species in the North American genus Neoanagraphis are found in often hyperarid conditions in the Mojave, Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts.

Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge

Its unique location at the meeting of several different climates (subtropical, Chihuahuan Desert, Gulf Coast, and Great Plains) has garnered a well-deserved reputation as a birding delight.


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Bolson tortoise

In the fall of 2006, 26 Bolson Tortoises were translocated from the Audubon Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch in Elgin, Arizona to Ted Turner’s Armendaris Ranch in south-central New Mexico, a Chihuahuan desert environment within the prehistoric range of this species.

Crucifixion thorn

Castela erecta (goatbush), a shrub or small tree in the family Simaroubaceae native to the Chihuahuan Desert

Holacantha stewartii (Stewart crucifixion-thorn), a shrub or small tree in the family Simaroubaceae native to the Chihuahuan Desert

Florida Mountains

The Florida Mountains are east and adjacent to New Mexico State Road 11, the north-south route to Chihuahua; it becomes Highway 23 in Chihuahua and connects to Mexican Federal Highway 2, the major east-west route of the north Chihuahuan Desert adjacent the U.S.-Mexico border.

Spanish bayonet

Yucca faxoniana — Chihuahuan Desert region of northern Mexico and Southwestern U.S.