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=Wupatki National Monument= 25137 North Wupatki Loop Road Flagstaff, Arizona 86004 Wupatki National Monument website Wupatki National Monument map

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Wupatki NM
Coordinates: 35.5410266, -111.3859177 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Tips for birding Wupatki National Monument
Better known for its historical and scenic value than as a birding hotspot, but there are birds to be found here. Look for Golden Eagle in particular. Occasionally flocks of rosy-finches have been found here in winter. From Northern Arizona Audubon Society

About Wupatki National Monument
Heat waves distort the horizon. Constant winds sap moisture from every pore. Tantalizing thunderstorms build but cheat the land of rain. The rock walls of an 800-year-old pueblo frame a landscape offering little obvious source of food, water, or comfort. On a summer day, the high desert of Wupatki seems much the same today as when, amid the rumblings of Sunset Crater Volcano, ancestral Puebloan people settled here. In this region of dramatic geologic landforms, climatic extremes, scarce water, and diverse plant and animal species, they created self-sustaining lives.

Wupatki National Monument was established to preserve the archeological sites from which we can learn about past and present cultures. We have since realized that Wupatki’s history is a complex story of people interacting with this living, evolving landscape. The dynamic processes of volcanism, tectonics, and erosion have created the geologic formations and abrupt elevation changes that provide, within a short distance, a wide variety of habitats for plants and animals. The effects of elevation are startlingly visible along the scenic loop road connecting Wupatki with Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, 18 miles to the south. A drive along this road is a journey from desert grasslands (at less than 5,000’ elevation) to ponderosa pine forest (near 7,000’).

Today, Wupatki National Monument protects 56 square miles (35,254 acres) of high desert directly west of the Little Colorado River and the Navajo Reservation. Its vistas preserve clues to geologic history, ecological change, and human settlement. All are intertwined. From Wupatki National Monument website



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