Baird’s Sparrow

Winter Grassland Bird Tagging in Far West Texas

Update from the field! Seasonal Bird Conservancy banders are working in the Chihuahuan Desert this winter to tag non-breeding grassland birds for our Motus project....

Grassland Birds of the Trans-Pecos

Grassland bird populations are declining and the majority of species are understudied on their wintering grounds. In the winter of 2020, we implemented a regional...

Sweet song of the Prairie Skylark

The Sprague’s Pipit is a charismatic songbird of North American grasslands. If you’ve ever wandered the Northern Great Plains in summer, you’ve probably heard their...

Snow Birds and School Groups

Nineteen Mennonite students from Cuauhtémoc recently joined us in the field and experienced a day in the life of bird biologists. Representing a vital piece...

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...

Ranch Tour in Northern Mexico

The grasslands of the Chihuahuan desert provide important overwintering habitat for over 90% of the migratory grassland species in western North America. Recently, our team...

Mountains to Plains

2017 marks eleven consecutive years of data collection at Soapstone Prairie Natural Area in Northern Colorado. This beautiful and ecologically important landscape is home to...

A Baird’s Life

Mixed-grass prairie in the Northern Great Plains represents critical habitat for wildlife of all kinds, including our specialty at Bird Conservancy of the Rockies –...

Sparrow Paparazzi

Bird Conservancy is finishing up another winter of grassland bird monitoring in Mexico, using radio-telemetry to study survival rates of Baird’s and Grasshopper Sparrows. We...

Field Season Report: Summer Breeding Grounds

Bird Conservancy of the Rockies just completed a second summer season studying breeding season survival in adults and juveniles of nesting Baird’s and Grasshopper Sparrows...

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