Archive - Colorado Wildlife

146: Harvest Mice

First, a fascinating and heartbreaking update about animal #42, Bison (which incidentally is my most liked post!): a new paper in The Review of Economic…

Jul 14, 2023 •

June 2023

145: Long-Billed Curlew

Who’s the largest shorebird in North America?

Jun 17, 2023 •

144: Miller Moths

A timely entry for the guests in our homes

Jun 12, 2023 •

May 2023

The Io moth, also known as the peacock moth, lives across a broad swath of North America, from southern Quebec and Ontario all the way to Utah.

May 5, 2023 •

March 2023

142: Ornate Box Turtle

One of only two turtles native to the Great Plains, the Ornate Box Turtle lives from Louisiana to Colorado, and is the state reptile of both Kansas and…

Mar 17, 2023 •

141: Hares and Jackrabbits

Today’s newsletter is dedicated to Freya, the pet rabbit of friends of the newsletter, who has been having some health issues lately but is doing…

Mar 14, 2023 •

140: Black-capped chickadees and Mountain chickadees

I’m sitting here on the fifth day of March watching chubby, adorable little birds flit around my birdfeeder, and most of them are black-capped…

Mar 6, 2023 •

139: Wolf Spiders

Mar 1, 2023 •

December 2022

November 2022

135: Grizzly Bear (North American Brown bear)

Since we just talked about wolves, a large mammal that was hunted out of Colorado in the 20th century, I thought we should talk about another large…

Nov 30, 2022 •

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