Festival highlights another budget cut - Silvercity Daily Press

Festival highlights another budget cut - Silvercity Daily Press

(Press Staff Photo by Juno Ogle)Bill Talbot holds a rufous hummingbird Sunday captured for banding at the annual Hummingbird Festival, held at the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site. By JUNO OGLE Daily Press Staff Although the bird banding done at the Hummingbird Festival in Mimbres every July is mainly an educational tool for visitors, the larger process — an important research tool for the past century — is now in danger, a University of New Mexico…