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Border Wildlife Study Photos for Download

The Border Wildlife Study spans 34 miles of the border in the U.S. and Mexico, across the Patagonia and Huachuca Mountains.
Border wall construction in the Patagonia Mountains, taken January 16, 2021.
Border wall construction in the Patagonia Mountains, taken January 16, 2021.
The border wall at Coronado National Memorial runs west up the slopes of the Huachuca Mountains. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
The border wall ends on the eastern slopes of the Huachuca Mountains. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
The view looking east towards Douglas, Arizona from Montezuma Pass. Coronado Memorial is visible below the pass and the distant border wall under the clouds. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
The view looking west towards the San Rafael Valley and San Antonio Mountains in the distance from Montezuma Pass. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
A barbed wire fence and steel vehicle barrier mark the border through the grasslands of the San Rafael Valley. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
A barbed wire fence and steel vehicle barrier mark the border through the oak woodland of the Patagonia Mountains. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
Sky Island Alliance field technician, Zoe Fullem, hikes to a camera site in the foothills of the Huachuca Mountains. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
Sky Island Alliance wildlife specialist, Meagan Bethel, installs a camera in the Huachuca Mountains. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
Coyote tracks on the road lead south to the border marked by a vehicle barrier in the Patagonia Mountains (November 2019). Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
—Sky Island Alliance expert tracker, Bryon Lichtenhan, studies the starburst tracks left by an opossum along the border marked by vehicle barrier in the Patagonia Mountains (November 2019). Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance. / El rastreador experto de Sky Island Alliance, Bryon Lichtenhan, estudia las huellas que dejó una zarigüeya a lo largo de la frontera marcada por la barrera de vehículos en la Sierra Patagonia (noviembre del 2019). Crédito de la foto: Sky Island Alliance.
An animal left fur behind after crossing through a barbed wire fence marking the border in the Patagonia Mountains (November 2019). Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance. / Un animal dejó pelo en el alambre de púas después de cruzar una cerca que marca la frontera en la Sierra Patagonia (noviembre del 2019). Crédito de la foto: Sky Island Alliance.
A grey fox hunts at night in a Patagonia Mountain meadow. Border Wildlife Study. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance. / Una zorra gris caza de noche en un prado de montaña patagónica. Estudio de Fauna Fronteriza. Crédito de la foto: Sky Island Alliance.
A hooded skunk hunts at night in the Huachuca Mountains. Border Wildlife Study. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
A herd of javelina, also known as collared peccaries, move past the camera at night in the Huachuca Mountains. Border Wildlife Study. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
A Mexican jay takes flight among the oaks in the Patagonia Mountains. Border Wildlife Study. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
A Northern harrier soars over the grassland in the San Rafael Valley. Border Wildlife Study. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
A red-tailed hawk flies close to the camera in the Patagonia Mountains. Border Wildlife Study. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
A nocturnal ringtail crosses a creek in the Huachuca Mountains. Border Wildlife Study. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
A female white tailed deer walks through the Patagonia Mountains with the lights of border city Nogales, AZ in the distance. Border Wildlife Study. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
The track of a mountain lion in mud within feet of the border at the Santa Cruz River. Border Wildlife Study. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
The track of a bobcat near the border in the Patagonia Mountains. Border Wildlife Study. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
The track of a coati in mud under the border barbed-wire fence in the Patagonia Mountains. Border Wildlife Study. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
A borderland bobcat west of the Atascosa Mountains. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
A bobcat with two kittens between the border and Tucson, AZ. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
A white-nosed coati near the lower San Pedro River. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
A borderland mountain lion female with two cubs on the border just west of Nogales, AZ. Photo credit: Sky Island Alliance.
The first-ever photograph of a wild ocelot in Arizona taken by a remote camera in the Whetstone Mountains placed by Sky Island Alliance staff member Michael Quigley.
A male jaguar photographed at Rancho El Aribabi, Sonora, Mexico, in collaboration with Sky Island Alliance in 2010.

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