SE Colorado Birding: Great Sandhill Crane video

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Great Sandhill Crane video

As I have noted in earlier posts, Sandhill Cranes do stop off in SE Colorado during migration. Though there are no webcams here to show them, National Audubon Society has put up web cams around the Audubon’s Rowe Sanctuary on the Platte River and videos and pics can be seen on National Geographic's website.

This website also has lots of info on Sandhill Cranes and the Rowe Sanctuary. There are still about 10,000 Sandhill Cranes in the San Luis Valley of Colorado in and near the Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge as all the cranes make stopovers on their way to their breeding grounds. And some Sandhill Cranes will make brief stopovers in SE Colorado.

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Why bird southeast Colorado?

From our high montane areas to the riparian areas along the Arkansas River as it exits Colorado, southeast Colorado offers birding opportunities for beginners to those serious birders who seek out the less common species. We have great shortgrass and sandsage prairie birding including public areas on the Comanche National Grasslands. We have wetlands including playa lakes (playas are important shallow, depressional wetlands that provide essential habitat for waterfowl and many other bird species). We have small lakes (such as Lake Cheraw north of La Junta)and large lakes (such as John Martin Reservoir that encompasses 35 square miles) that host an impressive diversity of bird species. And we have large expanses of pinyon-juniper woodlands with their special birding opportunities.

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SE Colorado Birding

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Great Sandhill Crane video

Why bird southeast Colorado?

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