• Hikers on Granite Pass in Rocky Mountain National Park/NPS photo by John Marino

    Rocky Mountain

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Birds in the Winter

a photo of a hummingbird
Broad-tailed hummingbirds (Selasphorus platycercus) fly south from Rocky Mountain National Park in the fall.
Photo courtesy of Rocky Mountain National Park
 
a photo of a chickadee
Mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli) move to lower altitudes near Rocky Mountain National Park for the winter.
Photo courtesy of Rocky Mountain National Park

Did You Know?

a photo of a man measuring a glacier using a theodolite

You can virtually explore the anatomy of glaciers. Watch glaciers ebb and flow over the last 18,000 years. Tour the landscape as ice shapes and molds it. Launch the interactive web pages featuring the Glaciers and Glacier Change in RMNP. More...