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About the Cover:

Female Olive-sided Flycatcher sits her nest,

photo by Anita Wilks.

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PUBLISHER, EDITOR, ADVERTISING SALES, COPY EDITOR, PRODUCTION & DESIGN Anita M. Wilks CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Omayra Acevedo Diane Bergstrom Buffalo Field April Glaser - High Country News- Slate Jim Plane-State Farm Insurance Adam M. Sowards - High Country News Jeff Thompson Robert M. Thorson - High Country News Valerie Wedel A.M. Wilks Ingrid Winter Frosty Wooldridge

Wildlife -

Acrobatic Bird Catches Insects 5

Issues-A True Scandal: Update Gross Expansion 6, 7

Wildlife -

Online Privacy is for the Birds 8, 9

Issues -

The Use of Land 10,11,12

Letters -

GCART ~ CCC Slash Days 13

Observation -

Without Challenge 15

Horse -

In Hand 16, 17

Poetry -

What Animals Can Teach Us 20

CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS/ARTISTS Omayra Acevedo Diane Bergstrom Alexa Boyes Buffalo Field Campaign Allen Hack /CC via Flickr Valerie Wedel Anita Wilks Frosty Wooldridge



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Save or Shred?

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Wildness is an Attitude

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Your Invitation to a Great Life

Memories - Introduced to the World of Dance

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Highlander Wildlife

Acrobatic Bird Catches Insects

The cover bird is a female olive sided flycatcher. Males and females look alike, nests are made by the females. They have one brood per year and the female incubates for twelve to fourteen days. Fledging at 21-23 days and both male and female feed the young. They migrate all the way to South America and are most often seen in western Colorado. This female nested in Coal Creek Canyon at about 8,000 feet. They eat insects and once it has spotted one it flies off its perch to snatch it up, then returns to the perch to eat.

They seem to prefer bees, flies, grasshoppers and small dragonflies. They are a solitary bird of the mountainous conifer forests often seen perched atop dead trees or snags, singing or looking for flying insects. Only about seven inches in height with a characteristic white patch on sides of the rump.

There are at least thirty-six species of flycatchers in North America and this does not include the wood-pewees or phoebes. The largest concentration of these different types of birds is in the southern regions of the continent and into Mexico, where the climate and the habitat is more to their liking. In most cases, flycatchers have duller colors but there are some exceptions, such as the bright red Vermilion Flycatcher or the spectacular looking Fork-tailed Flycatcher and the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher.

Insects are the main diet of these birds and they are

known for their aerial acrobatic displays as they catch

flying insects in the air. At times they stop in mid-flight and

hover and pick their prey from the leaves and branches.

This type of manoeuvre is known as hawking. The

flycatchers prefer high perches where they have the

advantage of seeing a larger area as they seek their food.

The flycatchers are some of the most difficult birds to

identify because some species are so similar in size, color

and markings. Sometimes only the bird's call can separate

them from each other.

By A. M. Wilks

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