Tag: bird
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Bird Call: Feminist Bird Club invites bird lovers to Boulder, Denver outings
A pair of wood ducks and their ducklings were the last birds to roost inside Lexie Sierra-Martinez’s heart. She and a gaggle of other bird lovers took in the adorable sighting at Pella Crossing in Boulder County while Sierra-Martinez co-led the most recent outing of the Denver and Front Range chapter of the Feminist Bird…
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Bird Call: And then there were eggs
It started with half of a sky-blue American robin’s egg. I imagined Mother Nature smiling down on me as she placed the cracked piece of manna a few feet from my front door earlier this spring. My first bird egg. What a gift. Craning my neck, I searched the two 9-foot-tall shrubs and huge box…
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Bird Call: Colorado bird, nature group to host award-winning, humorous bird cartoonist
A is for adorbler. One can detect the presence of an adorbler by noticing when fellow birdwatchers coo, “Oh, hello, little buddy,” and “Well, look at you,” or emit soft squeals of delight. A is also for American robin, defined as a device that converts worms into100-decibel songs outside your bedroom at 4 a.m. Those are…
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National bird: Best spots to view bald eagles around Colorado Springs
Here’ the best places for eagle watching around metro Denver.
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Black Forest carver uses recycled wood to create life-like birds
You’d swear these carved birds are about to take off. But no, the mountain bluebird, cedar waxwings, red-winged blackbird and hooded merganser are firmly mounted to their wood bases as they perch atop a few display tables and shelves at Wild Birds Unlimited. Standing nearby is Tom Mizik, the man responsible for the brilliantly painted,…
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Bird Call: Colorado carver uses recycled wood to create life-like birds
You’d swear these carved birds are about to take off. But no, the mountain bluebird, cedar waxwings, red-winged blackbird and hooded merganser are firmly mounted to their wood bases as they perch atop a few display tables and shelves at Wild Birds Unlimited. Standing nearby is Tom Mizik, the man responsible for the brilliantly painted,…
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Bird Call: Colorado bird photographer’s finch photo nabs gold in contest
Somewhere around Homer, Alaska, lives a gray-crowned rosy-finch who’s blissfully unaware it’s an award winner. Evergreen photographer Alan Murphy managed to capture its frosty visage one winter’s day a couple of years ago and dubbed it “Winter Pink.” For his efforts, he won gold in the best portrait category of the annual Bird Photographer of…
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Bird Call: Colorado man leads bird, wildlife tours through Birding Man Adventures
It’s the case of the white-tailed ptarmigan. That’s a famously elusive grouse that cloaks itself by turning snow white in the winter and brown as a stick come summer, and becoming virtually invisible against the windswept rocks, low shrubs and snowbanks of their high-mountain habitat. They’re the only birds in North America who spend their…
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Bird Call: Colorado Springs raptor expert to speak about owls at Colorado bird festival
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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Who’s Who at the Zoo | Abyssinian Ground Hornbills
Meet Petrie and Layla, the Abyssinian ground hornbills at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.