Expert and enthusiast bird-watchers in Colorado are having a ball right now thanks to several late snowstorms and this spring’s long stretch of cold weather.
Arvind Panjabi, an avian conservation scientist with the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies, said the late spring storms and cold snaps changed some migration patterns this year.
“The recent wet weather that we’ve had the last couple of weeks has come right during the peak of the spring migration when millions of birds are flying through the airspace over Colorado. It effectively stopped up the migration and forced many of the birds that would have been in the air to land here in Colorado,” he said. “Bird-watchers likely noticed a lot more birds on the ground these last few weeks.”
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