The Visitors Guide To The Birds Of The Rocky Mountain National Parks

Rocky Mountain National Park is a destination for birders from around the world. No other locale offers such ready access to the pristine high-elevation habitat required by species such as White-tailed Ptarmigan, Brown-capped Rosy Finch, Blue Grouse, Gray Jay, Black Swift, Northern Pygmy-owl, Three-toed Woodpecker, Williamson's Sapsucker, Band-tailed Pigeon, and Pine Grosbeak. In Birding Rocky Mountain National Park, author Scott Roederer takes you on a tour of the Park's best birding areas. In great detail, he describes where to find the most sought-after birds of the montane forests and alpine tundra. From when to go to where to park, he'll lead you to specific places to find White-tailed Ptarmigan on Trail Ridge Road and to an out-of-the-way part of the Park where Black Swifts are regularly sighted roadside. He'll show you how to make the most of an all-too-short vacation by telling you where to find the best birding for the most species. Join him on a world-class birding adventure to Rocky Mountain National Park.

Over 320 common and interesting species of birds found in the Rocky Mountains region are brought to life by colorful illustrations and detailed descriptive text. Species accounts include characteristics for quick identification.

"This comprehensive reference work . . . describes in detail 354 species found in a 353,000 square mile area, from the 40th parallel in Colorado north to the 52nd parallel in Canada; from the western border of Idaho to the eastern boundaries of Montana and Wyoming. . . . Here a visitor to any of the major national parks in the Rocky Mountain region can have quick access to the abundance and seasonality of a given species. In addition, a comprehensive introduction describes the predominant life zones of the region, and over a dozen maps illustrate such significant features as precipitation patterns, vegetation community types, and major physiographic provinces. The book is well written and an essential guide for the birder who visits the Rockies."?Indiana Audubon Quarterly Birds as common as the bobwhite and blue-winged teal and as rarely seen as the great egret are featured in Paul A. Johnsgard's informative book, profusely illustrated with drawings and color plates.

A beautiful full-color field guide to the birds in Rocky Mountain National Park, this book features the bird photography of Estes Park, Colorado, photographer Richard H. Hahn, as well as Hahn's detailed field notes about the birds he has spent decades observing. The book features over 40 migrant and resident birds commonly seen in RMNP.For each bird, Hahn offers a full-page color photograph. On the facing page, he details the time of year and habitat in which that bird is most commonly sighted in RMNP, as well as two specific, easily accessible RMNP locations that will most likely afford a glimpse of that species. He then offers his field observations of that bird in the national park, including relevant historical and cultural connections.Written with his daughter, Sarah Hahn Campbell, this showcase of Hahn's detailed observations of the birds of Colorado's most popular national park will prove as indispensable to Rocky Mountain National Park visitors as a pair of binoculars, a camera, and a map.

This field guide dedicated to the wildlife of Rocky Mountain National Park is an information-packed, pocket-sized book that introduces park visitors to animals, plants, insects and more that reside at Rocky Mountain National Park in a colorful and portable package. Includes more than 200 species, including elk, bighorn sheep, moose, ptrarmigan, pika, American dipper, greenback cutthroat trout, aspen, fairy slipper, Colorado columbine, mountain pine beetle, and more.

Songbirds of the West includes more than four dozen songbirds that occur within the western United States. The majority are found in America’s western National Parks, especially in parks where the author worked for more than a quarter of a century. Big Bend National Park is where he encountered Black-capped and Gray Vireos, Vermilion Flycatchers, Curve-billed and Crissal Thrashers, Hepatic and Summer Tanagers, and Black-vented, Hooded and Scott’s Orioles. Black-billed Magpies were encountered at Great Sand Dunes, Clark’s Nutcrackers at Crater Lake, Cave Swallows at Carlsbad Caverns, Cactus Wrens at Saguaro, Phainopeplas at Organ Pipe, Steller’s and Gray Jays at Yellowstone, Black-throated Gray Warblers at Mesa Verde, Townsend’s Solitaires at Timpanogos Cave, and Canyon and Rock Wrens at Zion. Great Kiskadees, Green Jays, and Altamira Orioles were encountered in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The discussion of each bird is based on the author’s personal encounters. These range from casual observations to scientific studies which were undertaken in both the U.S. and Mexico; still others involved visits to the West Indies. The bird’s life history, behavior and status are included.

Letters to her sister about the author's travel in Colorado, autumn and early winter 1873.

A guide to national parks in the West provides information on attractions, accommodations, restaurants, when to go, plants and animals, and activities for each park.