Tag: Bird Watching
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The plight of Colorado’s ‘ghost of the alpine’: An uncertain future is ahead for this elusive bird
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the summer of 2006, Amy Seglund recently had moved to Colorado to work as a wildlife biologist when she heard a sound she’ll never forget. The sun had not yet risen over the San Juan Mountains when Seglund awoke in her tent. It was…
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‘Ghosts of the prairie’ the main attraction of unusual event returning to Colorado
An unusual bird-watching festival in Colorado has been set for the weekend starting April 28. If you’re unfamiliar with the event on the state’s eastern plains, you’ll want the time to consider attending and planning. Organizers around Karvel call it the Mountain Plover Festival. But it’s “not the kind (of festival) you are thinking of,”…
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Bird Call: Learning to bird by ear at Colorado snow geese festival
When Alison Kondler imitates a raven, you’d be forgiven for thinking a real raven just popped on the phone call. Not only is the Denver Audubon master birder a font of knowledge, she can create jaw- dropping realistic bird sounds with merely her mouth. It all started with a mean water drop imitation — imagine…
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Mountain Plover Festival returning to Colorado
After two years of no in-person activities due to COVID-19, bird watchers will return to southeast Colorado next weekend for a niche celebration. That’s the Mountain Plover Festival, honoring the peculiar, diminutive bird that nests in the fields of rural Karval. Starting April 29, tours around private ranches are set for the three-day event, which…
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Bird Call: No backyard? No problem. Try live bird cams
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save All is quiet on the Western front. The winter morning is dark and cold, and I can’t see the bird feeder hanging in my backyard. It’s too early for most things, except bird watching in Panama, thanks to The Cornell Lab’s live bird cam. The…
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Bird Call: What to do about backyard thugs?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I have loved birds. I have been traumatized by birds. The animal kingdom can be a cold and cruel world. I know this, but I often prefer to delude myself into believing it’s not true. My birds all sweetly twitter in the morning hours, fly…