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An Audubon s yellow-rumped warbler hunts for bugs above the Denver Audubon Nature Center south of the Chatfield Reservoir. May 12, 2021.
Around twelve million birds are expected to fly north and make their way across Colorado over the next few nights during the peak of spring migration. And despite any fears of flocks that Alfred Hitchcock may have instilled in you, they mean no harm.
“They’re coming into North America to breed,” Zach Hutchinson of Audubon Rockies said. “So it’s an annual cycle that’s part of maximizing their ability to survive and reproduce.”
In Colorado, we’re talking about Swainson s Thrushes, Bullock s Orioles, Western Tanagers, Yellow Warblers and many others that want to take advantage of the warmer, clearer weather. Most of them migrate at night, when conditions are calm, fewer predators are out and stars can help with navigation.
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Zoey (left) and Bailey race back to their human, Maggie Siple, on a snowy day in Rosedale park. Jan. 26, 2021.
Many grocery stores in Colorado are packed with people as the state gears up for what could be its biggest snow storm of the season. Mouthfuls Pet Supply is essentially a grocery store for pets in Denver’s Berkeley neighborhood, and it’s no different.
The shop usually gets busier when a big storm is approaching, owner Kaiti Asmussen said.
“People generally will kind of stock up on more of the food and treat and chew category items. And then once the snow hits, they want to come in and get the booties and the jackets,” she said.
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Elk make themselves at home in the brush at the Woodlands at Fall River Suites mountain resort in Estes Park, a town on the eastern edge of Rocky Mountain National Park.
It s now mandatory for Colorado hunters to get some elk tested for chronic wasting disease, an always-fatal neurological disease found in some hooved mammals such as deer, moose and elk.
For the last few years, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has required that hunters get mule deer tested when they are harvested from specific parts of the state. The head of the deer or a tissue sample is brought to a submission location, and the test results help the state get a clearer picture of the spread of the disease.