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Visitors on the Range

10,000 Birds

Besides the American bison that the refuge was founded to protect, there are pronghorns, elk, bighorn sheep, mule and white-tailed deer, and black bears. Things started on a promising note, with Mountain Bluebirds and the pale local race of Song Sparrow both evident in the visitor center parking lot.

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Over the Mountain

10,000 Birds

Almost immediately I was besieged by the songs of Yellow Warblers , Black-capped Chickadees , and Song Sparrows , all engaged in vigorous staking-out of territory. Things were quiet at first as I headed upwards, until I startled two Mule Deer. Brewer’s Blackbirds and House Finches were carting nesting material to and fro.

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