birds

• Locations: News By Raleigh Burleigh Published May. 19, 2021

  Honoring the night sky

  Photo by Aaron Watson.

  Every year, millions of birds migrate through our state. According to Colorado State University’s Dr. Kyle Horton, 80% of these flights occur at night when it is safest for birds to travel long distances. Increasingly, fewer birds survive this great migration and one of the primary causes is… read more →

• Locations: Opinion Published Apr. 21, 2021

  Earth Day, cats and birds

  

  By Nancy Peterson

  The celebration of Earth Day marks a key victory of the modern environmental movement in the United States in 1970.

  Democratic Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin envisioned the very first Earth Day, harnessing the energy of student anti-war protests to… read more →

• Locations: Columns, News Published Apr. 7, 2021

  The world’s largest migration

  Western Tanager. Photo by Shep Harris.

  By Mary Harris
  Roaring Fork Audubon

  The world’s largest animal migration is coming to North America! A portion of this migration will pass right through the Roaring Fork Valley; and, lucky for us, many will remain to breed, most of them returning to the very same habitat patch where… read more →