Tag: Birdwatching
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Bird Call: Colorado Springs raptor expert to speak about owls at Colorado bird festival
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An unusual interaction with a bird is often one way a bird lover is born. For Debbie Barnes- Shankster, it was the black-capped chickadee that alighted on her hand when she was 6 to steal seeds a farmer had poured into her open paw. “I was immediately charmed,” she said. “I’ve loved chickadees since then.”…
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Bird Call: Monogamy lessons from birds
Albatross and hawks do it. Greater sage grouse and prairie chickens don’t do it. Humans do and don’t do it. Let’s do it, let’s stay monogamous. Or not. We’re all a little birdlike in our varying levels of comfortability with commitment, aren’t we? Some of us are bald eagles who pair up early and stay…
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Bird Call: American kestrels on decline, nest boxes needed in Colorado to help grow population
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Our American kestrels need more nests. The numbers of North America’s smallest falcon have been in freefall since the 1960s and are now down by half due to loss of habitat, predation by Cooper’s hawks and other larger hawks, car strikes and eating poisoned prey,…
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IMAX film hopes to raise awareness of largely unknown North American ecosystem | Bird Call
An enormous, vital ecosystem exists to the north, likely to the surprise of most. The prairie wetlands, which span more than 300,000 square miles from western Canada to South Dakota, are home to millions of birds and other species. But the habitat is slowly being decimated. Research published by the journal Science in 2019 revealed…
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Standley Lake eaglets are believed to have died
Two young offspring of a beloved pair of bald eagles that have a nest in Standley Lake Regional Park are thought to have died this weekend, prompting an outpouring of sadness from bird watchers. Observers noticed the parents feeding an eaglet on April 4. They were known to the nest-watching community as SL2 and SL3.…