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Endangered Species Day: Colorado’s endangered species
Gray wolf | flickr user Todd Ryburn
The Internet has informed me that it’s Endangered Species Day. Never heard of it? Well, neither had I, and it might have something to do with the fact that I (and presumably others) got a press release about it today, as opposed to well ahead of time when people could actually do something with it. But let’s not let that take away from a campaign with a simple and legitimate cause — making folks aware of the endangered animals in their midst.
Colorado’s Division of Wildlife helpfully lists many “species of concern” in Colorado and classifies them as federally endangered, federally threatened, state endangered, state threatened or state special concern.
On that list are some of the celebrities of endangered speciesdom like the gray wolf and black-footed ferret, as well as plenty of birds and fish that we city-dwellers might not think about all that often like the southwestern willow flycatcher (photo) and the bonytail.
One quick note regarding accuracy: a few sites related to endangered species oddly suffer from the same thing — they show “last updated” dates from a few years ago, but appear to be the authoritative sites. The Colorado Division of Wildlife site and the Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program fit into that category, so I hope that the only out-of-date information on those sites is the last-updated date. Just in case, here’s a list of the federally endangered species (including plants) that occur in Colorado from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, which says it was last updated today — just doesn’t include the state-specific information.
