Specialties

Flammulated Owl

Description: An uncommon to common resident throughout the mountains, increasing in abundance to the south and west. Its habitat is mature ponderosa or mixed-conifer forest with scattered mature aspens, but in some places it can be found in pure aspen stands and in other types of coniferous forest (including, rarely, spruce-fir). Arrives in the southwest in the last week of April, elsewhere in the first week of May. Easiest to hear after full dark in May and June.