10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2024
It is mid-March and I am back in Colorado for meetings. The same Townsend’s Solitaire I dipped on last time in Colorado. We also saw Prairie Dogs , Bison , Mule Deer , Abert’s Squirrel and Coyote. Of course, excellent opportunity to go birding with my friends Brad and Laura. the trails were empty.
10,000 Birds
JULY 28, 2011
Here in Colorado many species are affected, but perhaps none more than our beautiful Mountain Plovers and Ferruginous Hawks. Ferruginous Hawks are native to our western short-grass prairies and their diet comprises almost completely of prairie dogs. Not too bad eatin’, huh?
10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2019
Or, that the grassland Burrowing Owls of Essay #90 (“Breeding Systems: Coloniality”), who require prairie dogs for successful nesting, are different from the Burrowing Owls of Florida, who are able to create burrow nests and breed without the ‘dogs.’
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