The silence overwhelmed me just as the song overwhelmed me long ago. My first excursion as a naturalist to the western Great Plains of eastern Colorado occurred in the winter of 1981. It was a cold, ...

The lark bunting was designated the state bird of Colorado in 1931. Why was this bird chosen to be the Colorado state bird? The answer I found was that the lark bunting was chosen because their ...

Lark bunting, Calamospiza melanocorys, Stejneger, 1885, photographed at Katy Prairie Conservancy, Houston, Texas (USA). Image: Joseph Kennedy, 10 November 2011 (with permission) [velociraptorize].

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... (Editor’s note: This is part of The Know’s series, Staff Favorites. Each week, we offer our opinions on the best that Colorado has to offer for dining, ...

Look in the foothills & mountain valleys of Colorado, and you’ll find the state flower – the Rocky Mountain columbine. The state tree is nearby – the blue spruce. As is the state animal, the Rocky ...

The day turned out to be more an adventure of wandering my mind than exploring Pawnee National Grassland. I first visited Pawnee in early autumn of 1980. The lifescape had lost its verdancy — the ...

I don’t mean to cause a panic, but Colorado’s sweet little state bird, the black and white lark bunting, is on the decline. And it’s mostly because we’re destroying their beloved short grass prairie ...

Pulling the trigger, John Kirk Townsend felled enough birds to preserve as specimens and to initiate a stream of controversies. It probably qualifies as an intermittent stream rather than as a steady ...

Birdsong is more than just a way of identifying birds: it’s a way of identifying with the birds themselves, says author Donald Kroodsma. Get to know them with these audio samples and sonograms. Plus, ...

A study of how female lark buntings choose their mates, published this week in Science, adds a surprising new twist to the evolutionary theory of sexual selection. Researchers at the University of ...

A study of how female lark buntings choose their mates adds a surprising new twist to the evolutionary theory of sexual selection. Researchers discovered that female lark buntings show strong ...