The lark bunting was designated the state bird of Colorado in 1931. Why was this bird chosen to be the Colorado state bird? The answer I found was that the lark bunting was chosen because their ...

Red-winged blackbirds can be heard trilling at city parks while grey jays – sometimes known as camp robbers – frequent tent sites in the mountains. Broad-tailed hummingbirds return to backyard feeders ...

the bird is neither a lark nor a bunting. This did not discourage Roy Langdon, who took a fancy to the bird and proposed it to be the Colorado state bird. Bitter controversy based on favoring the ...

That includes half of Colorado’s bird species and our state bird — the lark bunting. As a grassland bird, researchers say it has been hit especially hard by climate change and habitat degradation.

the bird is neither a lark nor a bunting. This did not discourage Roy Langdon, who took a fancy to the bird and proposed it to be the Colorado state bird. Bitter controversy based on favoring the ...

The lark bunting, Colorado’s state bird, is among the dozens of bird populations disappearing from skies and grasslands, according to a national study released Thursday. Five species of common ...

The birds normally live year-round in the South, Midwest and along the East Coast. Meanwhile, the lark bunting, Colorado’s state bird, went unseen for a sixth straight year. Although the rare ...

Among those 314 climate endangered birds is the Lark Bunting -- Colorado's state bird. “When I hear a Lark Bunting, I think of spring," Holloran said. "Spring for me brings a lot of hope and ...