Every year billions of birds migrate north in the spring and south in the fall, the majority of them flying at night, navigating with the night sky. However, as they pass over big cities on their way, they can become […]

Every year billions of birds migrate north in the spring and south in the fall, the majority of them flying at night, navigating with the night sky. However, as they pass over big cities on their way, they can become […]
Open Space and Mountain Parks hosted a guided hike with large-scale bird puppets an costumes created and perfromed by Boulder youth. A group of students from CU Boulder Departement of Evolutionary Biology enad climate solutions from a bird’s eye view […]
A new study published in the journal GeoHealth based on crowdsourced data compiled in the iNaturalist app shows last year’s wildfires may have played a larger role in the 2020 mass die–off of migratory birds across the western United States […]
We’ll hear about a new study showing last year’s wildfire season played a significant role in the 2020 western migratory bird die-off. Then, a local farm talks about their plans to regenerate soil by keeping compost in the area followed […]
Here’s the Nature Almanac for the first Friday in February. It’s the quest for an extremely rare bird that has never been seen before in Colorado — a goose that looks a lot like a Canada Goose, so it blends […]
A bumper crop of Douglas Fir cones has brought hungry birds to the high country, eager to eat and also stash the seeds away for winter. Here’s a walk with Audubon Teen Naturalists and Steve Jones and Scott Severs, looking […]
This month on the Nature Almanac, Ruth Carol Cushman and Scott Severs head to Betasso Preserve looking for Crossbills and find a sparse crop of Ponderosa Pine cones instead. Images courtesy of Scott E. Severs. Scott Severs works for […]
This month on the Nature Almanac – a rare brown thrasher at Ruth Carol’s bird feeder, and how this southern US bird’s winter stay in Boulder is an indication of warming climate. Image courtesy of Scott E. Severs. https://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/kgnu-news/2018/01/01-05-18_NatureA_RareBrownThrasher.mp3