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The Wings Over Willcox Festival Is In Full Flight. By Kevin Franklin THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS of sandhill cranes are descending on Willcox and the Sulphur Springs Valley, which means it's time for the fifth-annual Wings Over Willcox festival. This year is shaping up to be one of the best years for the festival. More than 21,000 cranes have come to winter in the area; that's nearly twice the average mid-winter count, says Ron Olding, Arizona Game and Fish Department regional wildlife program manager. On top of that, Wings Over Willcox program chairman Bob Coder says the Willcox Chamber of Co...

The NWS predicts light north northeast wind from seven to 10 mph on Tuesday afternoon.  On Sunday, the El Paso International Airport recorded wind gusts up to 45 mph. Dust from parts of Mexico lowered visibility in the El Paso-Juarez region.  610pm: Dust continues to blow from several sources across the region. A dust plume from the Willcox Playa in AZ has made it all the way to T-or-C now, though it's more aloft. White Sands is blowing into the Sacs. & sources in Chihuahua are creating haze in El Paso. #nmwx#txwxpic.twitter.com/MidKg94574— NWS El Paso (@NWSElPaso) May 3, 2021 Anthony Ja...

Sustainability coverage is supported in part by Intel TOMBSTONE — You can hear their cacophony long before you can see the sandhill cranes at Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area. It’s a thunderous clacking as thousands of the big birds trumpet back and forth.  As the sun sinks, wave after wave of the migratory birds glide gently to the wetlands below, wings outstretched like paragliders. They roost overnight in these wetlands, about 30 miles southeast of Tombstone, safe from coyotes, after a day spent socializing and foraging for grain in nearby fields.  Every year, hundreds of thousands of s...

New Record: Over 47,000 estimated sandhill cranes now in Sulphur Springs, Gila River Valleys Record Number of Sandhill Cranes Now in Sulphur Springs, Gila River Valleys (Source: Arizona Game and Fish) By KOLD News 13 Staff | January 14, 2021 at 11:40 AM MST - Updated January 14 at 11:40 AM WILLCOX, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Arizona Game and Fish Department estimates more than 47,401 migratory sandhill cranes are now in the Sulphur Springs and Gila River valleys, surpassing the previous record of approximately 40,000 set in 2010. The largest concentration of 25,734 is at AZGFD’s Whitewa...