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 ...

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 ...

A recent report from the National Audubon Society says two-thirds of America’s birds are threatened with extinction from climate change. That includes half of Colorado’s bird species and our state ...

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 ...

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 ...

To me, the smell of summer is creosote, the acrid petrochemical stench of treated railroad ties and utility poles. I associate the smell with August after years of walking sun-baked railroad tracks to ...

Twelve of 22 (54.5%) Lark Bunting (Calamospiza melanocorys) nests examined near Val Marie, Saskatchewan, were parasitized by Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater). Of five naturally parasitized nests ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — In a comprehensive study entitled Survival by Degrees, Audubon scientists mapped out the impact of global warming on 588 North American birds. The report found that 314 of the ...

A study of how female lark buntings choose their mates adds a surprising new twist to the evolutionary theory of sexual selection. Researchers discovered that female lark buntings show strong ...