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Christmas Bird Counts

This year marks the 119th year for the Audubon Christmas Bird Count (CBC), where volunteers across the country came out to add to a century...

Staying up late to study owls!

2018 marks our eighth season banding Northern Saw-whet Owls in the western Dakotas and gathering useful data about the migratory habits of this charismatic species....

Black Swifts: New Horizons

Black Swifts are thought to forage long distances from their nest sites, but their basic movement ecology is unknown. Knowledge about daily foraging routes and...

Traditional and high-tech tools are revealing details about where Mountain Plovers spend time during migration and over winter—highlighting critical habitat locations and guiding much-needed conservation...

Discovering Biodiversity in your “Backyard”

205! That's the number of species counted at our Annual Wildcat Hills Bioblitz. People of all ages came out to explore the Western Nebraska landscape...

Fantastic Field Season at Soapstone Prairie

After several weeks of intensive nest searching and observation, Bird Conservancy of the Rockies has confirmed that Baird's Sparrows are actively breeding at Soapstone Prairie...

A Tale of Two Methods

Two large-scale monitoring programs collect data on bird populations every summer in the United States—Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions and the Breeding Bird Survey....

Off the Beaten Track

Every year in late spring and summer, our field season crew traipses across mountains, prairies and deserts to survey birds under the Integrated Monitoring in...

Remembering Why

Mike Carter, founder and Executive Director of the Colorado Bird Observatory from 1988-2001, shares his memories about the creation of our organization and how events...

Cowboys, Collaboration and Conservation

The Central Plains Experimental Range in Northern Colorado provides the perfect place for researchers and ranchers to come together and explore new ways to achieve...

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