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, ...

A study of how female lark buntings choose their mates, published this week in Science, adds a surprising new twist to the evolutionary theory of sexual selection. Researchers at the University of ...

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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 ...

Research on lark buntings by UCSC biologist Bruce Lyon and his former graduate student, Alexis Chaine, was featured on the cover of Science. The January 25, 2008, issue of the journal includes 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 ...

Before it carves deep badlands and hosts Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota, the Little Missouri River is a cheerful, modest stream that waters the southeastern corner of Montana. This ...

While many people enjoyed their Fourth of July morning riding bicycles and others riding motorcycles, I returned to the site of the yellow lady-slipper orchids as my activity of personal enjoyment and ...

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 ...