The silence overwhelmed me just as the song overwhelmed me long ago. My first excursion as a naturalist to the western Great Plains of eastern Colorado occurred in the winter of 1981. It was a cold, ...

The lark bunting was designated the state bird of Colorado in 1931. Why was this bird chosen to be the Colorado state bird? The answer I found was that the lark bunting was chosen because their ...

Look in the foothills & mountain valleys of Colorado, and you’ll find the state flower – the Rocky Mountain columbine. The state tree is nearby – the blue spruce. As is the state animal, the Rocky ...

I don’t mean to cause a panic, but Colorado’s sweet little state bird, the black and white lark bunting, is on the decline. And it’s mostly because we’re destroying their beloved short grass prairie ...

The day turned out to be more an adventure of wandering my mind than exploring Pawnee National Grassland. I first visited Pawnee in early autumn of 1980. The lifescape had lost its verdancy — the ...

Birdsong is more than just a way of identifying birds: it’s a way of identifying with the birds themselves, says author Donald Kroodsma. Get to know them with these audio samples and sonograms. Plus, ...

Instead of shopping and wrapping gifts on Dec. 16, a dedicated group of amateur ornithologists scoured trees, water and the sky in search of birds. This year’s Christmas Bird Count revealed more than ...